Why does my itunes stop after playing only a few songs?

I connected a seagate external memory to my mac mini. My itunes is there. Would changing the location help? nad if so, how can I do that without losing all the songs?

iTunes is not fully functional when operating in Safe Mode, so its possible that the component that supports Audible content is not running.  If iTunes will only run in Safe Mode then there's an issue with your installation - see Turingtest2's tutorial Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates, in particular the section on removing all components of iTunes before installing the latest version.
I have Audible .aa files on a 2nd gen iPod Nano so there shouldn't be an issue with age ...

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