Audio File Storage

I loaded a large number of songs from an external hard drive into my iTunes libary via the "Add To Libary' option in the File Tab in iTunes.
I then realised that it was taking up too much space (by looking in the About This Mac>More Info>Storage) on my hard drive and so cancelled it 3/4 of the way through.
I then deleated all of the songs in the iTunes libary and in the User>Music>iTunes>iTunes Media>Music.
But when I checked back in About This Mac>More Info>Storage I realised that the Audio portion on my hard drive was still the same.
My problem is that I can't find any other audio files anywhere on my mac that could be taking up that much space?
Any thoughts much appreciated

As I deleted the songs fr iTunes I selected the send to trash option as I didn't want the songs anymore. I do however have a problem with my trash:
As I delete something "move it to trash" it asked me for my password and then it gets deleted without going into my trash bin. It's like it bypasses the trash bin?
Could this be a part of it and if so is there and option that I may have selected that makes things bypass my trash and if so is there a way of disabling this feature. Sorry I went off of topic there but may be that my trash if full of everything and I can't get into it to see it?
Also my destination is user>music>iTunes>iTunes Media>Music so I don't think that it was saved into a different folder?
I may have also deleted the files from both location simultaneously?
I just looked and in my iTunes library it say I have 8gb worth of songs but on about this mac it says I have 190 gb worth of audio? The 8gb worth of songs are perchased from the iTunes Store but the other 182gb are fr CDs?
I am just worried because I now only have 40gb left on my hard drive.
I hope this answers any question you had and thanks for all the support. This is my first question and so it was a surprise at how fast the responses came and that I know I have help!

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