Storing Music on External Drive Access from iTunes without using HD HELP !!

I have a 160 gb external drive that I store all my music on, I have a 30gb HD on my computer, I am trying to update my iPod with the files that are on my External HD and not use up HD space on my computer, I cant get it and keep either using up all the HD space and getting error messages, I hate it right now and I cant even email apple as they just keep sending you round and round, I am about to bucket my iPod unless I get some help, please somone help me !!!!
60gb i{Pod   Windows XP  

Hi GL,
Your a Star, it was in General Tab but in the Advanced option, iTunes was set to my previous on my laptop which had the local HD capacity to hold the volume of info, I have now directed iTunes to look at the External drive and the folders with the music and it seems to be fine , I,m so happy as I need my ipod to keep sanity, cheers for your help, dont hesitate if you have any problems to ask!, Regards Kevin
Hi Kevin,
I can empathize with your frstrations. If I
understand your question, you want to be able to play
your music on your pc, but not copy the files to your
local HD? I can only tell you what I did... maybe
there is an easier way, if you can figure it out, I
only hope that youll share it with me when you do.
Here goes:
First, open itunes on your PC, and go to
(edit/preferences)
Click on the (general) tab, and you will see a box
entitled (itunes music folder location)
Click on (change) and select the drive that you want
to have your music read from - NOTE this drive will
have to be connected for you to be able to hear your
music then click ok ONCE
BEFORE CLICKING OK THE SECOND TIME----- DESELECT the
(copy files to itunes music folder when adding to
library)tab
Now you can click ok
NEXT... go to (file/add folder to library)
select the folder you want to add to your PC library
- ideally your library should be empty or it will be
VERY DIFFICULT to determine which songs are on which
drive if you are using multiple drives for storage -
and click ok
what happens next is that itunes will scan the folder
and add all the titles to your library without adding
them to your HD.
I hope this helps.
GL

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