Where should I keep my music?

I have an external drive with most of all of my music on it and some of that music is actually on the hard drive. I just ripped a bunch of cd's to my external drive and put them in my library and numerous songs have the ! so I locate them, when I search for them on my external they are there. I don't want to have to manually locate each song! any ideas on where to put my music? Do I have to have it on the actual hard drive in order for iTunes to find it automatically.

You can keep the songs wherever you like, but when iTunes starts up it will look in the place you told it to look when you set up iTunes. If they are not there, that's why you see the excalmation mark. The !
So if you told iTunes that your library is on external drive (letter) F:\, then that's where iTunes will look next time. If the drive is not connected, with the same letter as before and ready, when iTunes starts up, iTunes will fail to find songs.
I'm not sure what you mean by "I have an external drive with most of all of my music on it and some of that music is actually on the hard drive". Do you mean that some of your music is on the internal hard drive and some of it is on an external hard drive? If so, then you simply need to make sure that the external drive is ready before iTunes starts up.

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