Using an external hard drive to my itunes library?

Here's my problem...  I just got a new laptop with a disc ssd 256 GB, my itunes library is well over 150 GB.  I don't want to take the majority of my hard drive to my itunes library, so I want to keep the library on my external hard drive, music via itunes on my laptop without copying it to the wire to the laptop HD.

Is this possible?

I went into preferences / advanced and changed the itunes media folder location to the file path for the external HD and it did not work.

Any other suggestions?

Thank you

-C

Launch iTunes with the SHIFT key is pressed, choose Create Library and specify a location on the external hard drive.

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