So I bought an external hard drive and...

Put all of my music from iTunes on the external hard drive, and deleted it from iTunes. So now the files are not on my computer, so how do I get them onto my iPod? Any suggestions?

Put all of my music from iTunes on the external hard drive, and deleted it from iTunes. So now the files are not on my computer, so how do I get them onto my iPod?
Drag them into the open iTunes window. Regardless of which drive they're on, they need to be displayed in iTunes to be synced to the iPod.
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    More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
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