Moving music files of 1 external hard drive to another

I have to move my music files from one external hard drive to another.   Many of these files are in the iTunes library, but do not reside in the iTunes/iTunes Music folder.  Is it possible to do so that they don't become 'traces of dead' in iTunes that I'll have to then 'find' whenever I want to access one of the songs?

There is no easy way to do it. It is one of the disadvantages of not let iTunes do its own management of files.

My suggestion would be to first let iTunes consolidate the active player library and only then move it to the new drive.

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