Want iTune's to pull my music library from Time Capsule Folder

Hi everyone. I am having a bit of a dilemma, I recently purchased a 1TB Time Capsule and want to move all of my music there. All of my music is currently stored in the default location.
This is what I have done.
Copied all of my music to Time Capsule;
Deleted all of my songs/albums from iTunes;
In iTunes settings, pointed to Time Capsule share;
Close iTunes; then reopen & nothing appears.
How do I resolve this issue?
Thanks.

When you said "Deleted all of my songs/albums from iTunes" what and how exactly did you delete from itunes? Do you still have your intact itunes folder in the default location on your computer? This would be the itunes folder which contains the itunes library file, the itunes library.xml file, and your itunes music folder (which contains all of your actual music).

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