[ramonesfreak]

hoping someone can help me

ive searched hours for this and cant find a solution. Here is what I need to do

My laptop died. It had an iTunes library with about 100,000 songs.

Luckily I have an external drive with the original files on it

I got a new laptop and installed iTunes

I want iTunes to run music off the external drive. I do not want to put a library on this laptop -not enough space

All the tech help I find online is specifically focused on moving the iTunes library on one's computer to an external SSD. This is not what I am doing as I have no library on this laptop to move

I can not figure out how to create an iTunes library on the external using the music that is already stored there without first moving it to the laptop and then back again to the external SSD

Im using Windows 10 and whatever the latest version of iTunes is

Thanks for any help