ITunes offers to import a CD it just burnt

Think this is new since iTunes 7.4.2
Every time I burn an Audio CD with iTunes, as soon as the CD is complete iTunes mounts it as an audio CD and then asks me if I want to import the content of it.
No, I don't - the audio information is already in iTunes!

Matt Gallagher wrote:
Thank you - guess I should have spotted that one.
I suppose I just imagined the software could be written so as to recognise that it's just created this CD itself....
;o)
True, iTunes is smart, but not that smart. This would actually be a very good feature request for iTunes, as I'm sure many people would like to keep the preference to be prompted to import audio CDs that haven't been imported yet, and it seems that the software should be "intelligent" enough to override that behavior when a user has burned a CD from an existing playlist. If you feel inclined to take a moment to submit this feedback to Apple, please follow the link below:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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