How do i stop i tunes opening and duplicating everything i want to play please

Every time i try to play a song that is either stored on my MacBook air ( mid 2011, still on Lion ) or i try to access it from a drive, if i click twice by accident i tunes opens and duplicates the song. That is really annoying.
I do not want i tunes to open, and i cannot stand its invasive nature.
I have tried changing the default music player to something other than i tunes but i tunes overrides it every time.
Could someone please tell me how to replace i tunes as the default music player properly so that it actually works and could someone recommend a music player that can play track after track without having to manually press play for every track i want to play please.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers

I forgot to say that i would be happy for i tunes to play songs if it did not duplicate every song thereby using up twice the memory of my already small installed memory ( 120 gb with only 50 gb left despite storing virtually nothing on this mac ? ).
I just want a player that will play music from any source - sdd drives, external hard drives etc - but not duplicate it on the internal memory. Surely this is possible ?
I even tried deleting i tunes but it would not let me, stating that it is essential for the operating system which is just intrusive and too rigid for modern technology.
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