play music on external drive using wmp

I have a large external hard drive filled with music.  I want to play music with Windows Media Player without loading music on my computer, filling my c: drive.  Any advice?

In WMP, click on the 'File' menu and select 'Add to library'.  (Or press ).  By clicking on the button "Advanced Options" allows you to specify the locations of the music files you want to add.  Add these files to the WMP library do not move files to the original location, but will tell WMP where find them easily when you want to read.

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