Using an external hard drive for iTunes

My laptop is running out of space. I have an external hard drive that I've loaded a bunch of my CD's into but I'm not sure how to get those into my iPod without having them take up more space on my laptop hard drive. Any thoughts? thanks

just add them to your library. Change the setting in preferences so that iTunes does not make a copy of the file on your laptop.
Note that if you do not have your XHD attached you will get an ! next to teh songs in the libary.

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1589
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