stop WMP from importing music

Hello,
In older versions of Windows, I had the ability to tell WMP not to import my music files. How do I do that in Windows 7?

Taking the monitored folder out of the mix also removed all of my music out of the Windows library (still available under C: drive)! I re-added it, but having WMP stop monitoring the folder isn't the answer.

It's not an autoplay issue - this is specific to booting WMP and having it automatically import all my music files, whether or not there's a CD in the tray.

Now there's an idea. I can create a new folder called, say My Tunes, and put my music in there... Thanks.

Thank you for the follow-up, ThrashZone.

I recall wrestling with this issue on my Windows 8 computer as well, where WMP insisted on importing EVERYTHING in the Music library (audio books, ringtones, misc sound files, etc.), no matter what sub-folder I put them in. In order to keep my music out of WMP, I moved it to C: drive in a new folder not associated with a library, and had to go find it every time I wanted to access something - quite inconvenient. Now that I have a Windows 7 computer, I was hoping there was something I'd missed in the WMP settings, but seemingly not. I like using WMP from time to time, but don't want it clogged up with all my music files.

Microsoft, why did you remove our ability to choose whether or not WMP imports files from the default location??? Please give your many millions of users the ability to choose whether or not they want WMP to manage their music by restoring the option to import files from the default monitored folder!

ThrashZone said:

I don't believe Microsoft is listening here

Yeah, it was more of a rhetorical comment.

Thanks for the suggestions.