Play songs while importing?

So upon installing itunes 8 i noticed they got rid of the play songs while importing feature. Does anyone know of a workaround to get this working again? It seems like it can be enabled again by editing itunesprefs.xml but i dont know the appropriate code if thats the case. I did tons of searches on the web and was only able to find information on macs. Can anyone help?
this is frustrating because i dont want to revert back just for this feature.

I guess that if you can turn this on on a Mac with:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes play-songs-while-importing -bool TRUE
Then it might be possible to do the same on windows by editing '\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunesiTunesPrefs.XML' and adding:
<key>play-songs-while-importing</key>
<data>True</data>
It might work and it's pretty easy to check. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP THE FILE FIRST!!

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