When adding music it creates playlist

Whenever I click "add folder to library" I choose a folder, in this case "my music" because it has hundreds of artists in it.  And I click "add", then it starts creating a playlist for every artists in the folder.  I have had iTunes for years and this is the first time it has done this.  I have made sure that "library" is highlighted when I selected "add folder to library".  Does anyone else have this problem?

iTunes recently started importing m3u files when scanning folders for media. My guess is that somewhere you've created some m3u artist playlists with another application and that iTunes is adding them in when you get it to scan the entire media folder. Use iTunes Folder Watch instead.
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