How to stop WMP from automatically scanning removable storage devices?

One irritating feature with windows media player is that when it is playing, and you insert a removable storage such as a flash or external hard drive, the program starts scanning the storage for songs and will just keep on scanning. So the storage is always blinking and you cannot safely remove it unless you close windows media player.

Is there a way of disabling this in media player? Or other means?

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