storing songs on macbook as well

[RTiii320]

got a new macbook and im transferring about 80gigs of music. its a 150gb HD but obviously dont want to save this music on my HD. If i have a 500 external hard drive which all my music is saved on and am simply dragging the files from the hardrive folder directly into itunes am i in some way saving the music on my harddrive as well? please some help would be much appreciated

 

[r.j.s]

Yes, by default, iTunes copies all the music to the internal HD. You can uncheck this in preferences - before you add any music.

 

[StingerT125]

You can also change where iTunes copies the file to. You can specify the external drive and that is where it will copy the to.

 

[Moks]

... its a 150gb HD but obviously dont want to save this music on my HD...

Not obvious to me, you'd still have 70Gb for OSX and everything else... I only got a 60gb HD on my iBook to start with, and 32gb of music on it.