Adding to Jacob's iTunes preference advice: command+9 will take you to the Advanced menu where you can uncheck the "copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" option
command+5 gives the importing preference panel (default is aac and 128 kbps - other formats can be aiff, apple lossless, mp3, or wav) command+6 gives burning preferences panel (audio cd, mp3 cd, or data cd/dvd) most commonly set preference panels -- that can also be found with the command-bracket tab moving commands Esther On Saturday, January 07, 2006, at 06:27AM, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nice tip that command-bracket to move from tab to tab in ITunes prefs. > >Thanks! > >-- >Jonnie Apple Seed >With his: >Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > > >On Jan 7, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote: > >Hi >There is. Under preferences, in the general section of import. While >you can't access the actual tabs, command+[ and command+] will allow >you to switch from one tab to another and you will be able to find >it. The option is called "copy music when adding it to library" or >something similar. Uncheck that box and that'll take care of it. > >hth > > >On Jan 6, 2006, at 10:39 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: >> I really wish there was some option *I could access* that would >> tell ITunes to leave my files where they are, and not to move the >> blasted things to where it wants them. > > > > > > >
