Windows Media player ruined my playlist

Hey was wondering if anyone here knew why at times sometimes your entire music library decides to add itself to your personal playlist and if there is a fast undo method or something. I had 70 songs in my playlist last night and i woke up to listen to
some tunes and add some albums to it and now there is 580 songs (every song in my library) and they are jumbled together, i have tried sorting them by date added or date created to see if i could get the ones that just moved there to the top so i could
just remove them quickly but it just shows the date they were added to my computer so no help at all there, does anyone know if theres a way to restore the plat to a previous date or something or if anyone knows a work around this glitch or even how it happens
in the first place as it is the second time this has happened to me.

Kelmen: you can in fact create an auto playlist in WMP that sorts by date added. In WMP's library, click the arrow next to
Create playlist and select Create auto playlist. Enter a name for the playlist, and under
Music in my library, add Sort by Date Added Ascending order. Click
OK to create the auto playlist.
For more info about auto playlists, see
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/WMP/Playlist.htm
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

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