How do I Delete songs from Itunes & Computer at the same time?

I would like to have a song deleted from my computer (sent to recycling bin) everytime I delete the song from ITUNES. How can I do this? When I used MediaMonkey it automaticly did it for me. Thanks for your help.
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If you are using iTunes to manage your music and the songs are in the iTunes Music folder then iTunes will give you the option when deleting to remove the songs from the library and send them to the Trash. However if you are keeping the songs in another folder iTunes will only delete them from the library, if you want to completely remove them you have to go to the folder yourself.

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Go to "setting" - then click "General" - then click "Usage" then wait for the apps to load, once loaded....click on "Video", and then delete the video file (do the same withe Music App).
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