ITunes automatically adding songs on my computer to my iTunes library

Ok... really this isn't a problem that can be fixed by consulting a forum, but because I can't exactly email apple support, I'm posting here to see if other people have this issue on their minds.
Apple thought it would be intuitive and wonderful for iTunes to have a feature that searches through your hard drive and adds songs to your library as they are downloaded to your computer. As someone who is always being sent new songs, and often listening to songs only once before deleting them, this feature has actually caused a hassle for me. I now have to spend extra time going through my library in order to delete songs I didn't want in my library in the first place.
This is just a plea for iTunes programmers to make this feature OPTIONAL in the next version of iTunes.
Thanks!
Losing Faith

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