Opening songs(MP3s) in iTunes Question

[jumpmanpro97]

I'm new to mac and I noticed on my MBP, when you open any song (from my flash drive) in iTunes that it automatically saves the song to the MBP hard drive. Is there anyway I can change this option? Like change the settings so that I can save it to an external hard drive instead? Or even just change the settings so that it doesn't save the song played onto the hard drive? Thanks, in advance.

 

[Sky Blue]

iTunes Preferences > Advanced > Uncheck copy files to iTunes Media Folder.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

There's an option in iTunes's preferences, in the Advanced section, called "Copy files to iTunes Library". It's probably checked, so uncheck it.

 

[jumpmanpro97]

thanks guys I was looking at the wrong place I kept pressing the advanced tab at the top instead of the iTunes tab > preferences