On Mon, Jun 28, 20048:45 AM, the following words from Sam Hotchkiss shotch at gmail.com, emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... >On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:25:24 -0400, b <fl1pper at earthlink.net> wrote: >> You might have a Preference set (it is the default, so), in iTunes, >> that "Copies all imported mp3s to your iTunes Music folder. >> >> I disabled that little devil right from the get go. > >I, on the other hand, use my itunes music from the itunes folder, and >delete the original That's what I do also. It's easier to let iTunes keep all my music files in the same place. I do have speeches, sounds and sound effects that are mp3 that I have QuickTime Player play. I keep those sounds in a separate folder than my iTunes library. cheshirekat -- Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me. - Jean Genet (1910-1986), French playwright, novelist. Prisoner of Love, pt. 1 (1986, trans. 1989). * 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram * * Addictions: iTunes 4 * WarCraft * The Sims * FileMaker Pro