ITunes Settings...

I notice when I double click a Music file or Sound FX file that I have saved elsewhere on my computer for PREVIEW only, iTunes automatically opens. I'm okay with that. What I don't understand is that it will save the files to my iTunes library automatically. What if I don't want to save it to the library...So my question is, how can i preview songs or files without having them saved to my library if I don't want them there?

DVX100Shooter
1. If you preview the files in Column View in the Finder, you can listen to them via the finer. Simply click on the file once, and you'll see the Preview in the last column.
2. The reason that iTunes is called up to preview a file is because it is set as the default app for that file type. To chage this, select a file in the finder and go File -> Get Info
At the Open With... section you can choose another app istead of iTunes, try Quicktime Player instead. Click change all to apply the change to files of the same type.
Regards
TD

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