Where to put my music

Hi there, I keep a personal music library of about 20gb in one folder on the 'Documents' folder of my MacBook Pro. What concerns me is that when i take any of these music files into iTunes to listen to, iTunes automatically makes another copy for the iTunes Music Library, and i could really do without the duplication. How do i get around this? Would it better if i just put all of my music files directly into the iTunes library? Would this prevent it from happening? Or would it better if i stored them some other place?
I am soon to be upgrading my OS to Mountain Lion, does this handle this situation in any way better? Or differently?
Thanks very much for any help you can give me. Best wishes, Richard

It was tricky sorting out the actual questions in your post. I think the other poster has one question in hand, here's the other:
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1). Connect your iPod to your new computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod.
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3). Once you are connected and your iPod is safely in manual mode there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. iTunes will only let you copy your iTunes Store purchases directly from an iPod to the computer, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
For everything else (music from CDs, other downloads and including iTunes purchased songs and in some cases, videos and games) there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
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