Disable automatic adds to library?

Is there an option to disable the function that automatically adds a file to the iTunes library when it is played? For example, if I listen to a sample/clip from a website and iTunes is my default player, I do not want that clip to be automatically added to the library for obvious reasons.
  Windows XP   latest version of iTunes

no, I'm talking about when iTunes is your default music player, and you click a link on a website to listen to a song clip (say, Amazon.com), when it plays in iTunes is stays in the library across sessions, even though I dont want it to because it's only a streaming (or actual) file.

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