How to "not import mp3 in iTunes"?

[wow]

Hi my situation is as follows. I have a lot of mp3's on my winXP HD.

When i select a few mp3s to play in iTunes, iTunes it also import them.

But thats not what i want, i have only 6 gigs for Tiger and dont want to loose any room by storing my mp3s on 2 places (xp hd and tiger hd )

 

Is there a way to stop iTunes from importing mp3s but just playing them?

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Hi my situation is as follows. I have a lot of mp3's on my winXP HD.

When i select a few mp3s to play in iTunes, iTunes it also import them.

But thats not what i want, i have only 6 gigs for Tiger and dont want to loose any room by storing my mp3s on 2 places  (xp hd and tiger hd )

 

Is there a way to stop iTunes from importing mp3s but just playing them?

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Under iTunes preferences, Advanced, Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library"

 

I'd also advise unchecking "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" because iTunes has no write access to the NTFS drive anyways.

 

And, just in case you havent done so yet, change the path to your library under advanced options.

 

[wow]

Under iTunes preferences, Advanced, Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library"

 

I'd also advise unchecking "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" because iTunes has no write access to the NTFS drive anyways.

 

And, just in case you havent done so yet, change the path to your library under advanced options.

 

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Thanks i must have missed that, great tip