Does dragging music into the itunes library take up double the space on my hardrive?

If my music is in my C drive and then i drag and drop it into the music folder in itunes, will that take up double my space on my harddrive?
Same goes if I delete my music from my C drive, will it still say in itunes?

There's a setting that determines what happens. In iTunes Preferences, Advanced tab you can choose to leave the music where it was or copy it to the iTunes library. If you choose to leave it where it was then it will not take up double the space. If you choose to copy it to the iTunes library it WILL take up additional space, but you can then delete it from any other locations.
If you delete music from your C: drive that has already been indexed in iTunes this will confuse iTunes momentarily, but it will recover when you try to play it. The better way to delete music is to delete it in the iTunes library; this will keep things in sync.

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