Importing song issues

So I use the program "Ares" and all the music that gets downloaded from there goes to a specific folder. Now, I know exactly how to import those songs and erase the duplicates when that happens, but there has to be an easier way to do what I want to do. So my question:
Is there any way that I can re-add a folder to a library, and instead of it bringing in EVERY song from that folder, just brings the ones in that aren't already in itunes?
Example: One week i download song1.filename.mp3 and song2.filename.mp3, and the next week I download song3.filename.mp3, all going to the same folder. How can I get itunes to import ONLY song3.filename.mp3, and not import the other two?
It is getting really annoying that after 2 weeks and 100 new song downloads, when I import the folder again, it tries to import all 3000 songs instead of just the 100. I know I can do "add file to library", but that gets very frustrating picking out 100 songs from the 3000+ already in there. And I know it's possible, because when my roomate imports all his songs his does exactly what I want. I made sure we have the exact same settings, but still no luck. Anyone?

Thats because your double clicking or playing it in this Are's program. You'll have to either go in the settings of this program and have it play files with the systems default player or manually goto the folder this program downloads songs to and open them with iTunes

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