How to play music without adding it to itunes

I'd like to play music off of my external hard drive without itunes adding it to it's library. I unchecked the box that says create a copy in itunes, however i created a playlist, dragged the files to it and played them. When i deleted the playlist, the songs were still listed in my main library, they wont play....b/c the files not there, so why is even listed and how do i prevent that from happening in the future?????

I'd like to play music off of my external hard drive without itunes adding it to it's library.
Use the QuickTime Player to play it.
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