INTERACT FORUM

Please tell me if this is possible in MC 10 or even 11. Let's say I have an artist and I have one full CD of their greatest hits. Before that they had 2 CD's. Now with RealPlayer's store offering 49 cent songs I decide to create those 2 CD's with the missing songs. I create MP3's from them and import into MC. Now under that artist I have 3 albums, however the 2 new ones are incomplete because some of those songs were on the greatest hits album.

The only solution I can think of besides copying those songs to make multiple MP3's is to create a playlist for each album. So I create a Playlist Group called Albums and then under that create another Playlist Group with the name of the artist. Under that I create Playlists for each album. Beautiful, works great, and no duplicate files.

However, the problem with this is two-fold. I have over 12,000 songs and it's growing. That means the Audio scheme under Media Library has to be expanded to find the artist and songs I want to create the playlists from, and the Playlists are expanded at the bottom of the tree. So when creating the playlist, I have to look at the playlist to see what is in there now, go back up to the Audio to see the songs for the artist and send any missing songs to that playlist. Thank goodness the right-click on a song remembers the last command so I can send to the playlist easier. But it's a back and forth among the big expanded trees to create all the playlists. And then when I want to play something, I have to do the same thing depending if I want to play the whole album or just some songs from the artist. Back and forth.

What I would like to see is under the Audio section up top, the ability to right-click on an artist and select "Add Playlist". Then the Playlist appears under that artist along with the albums currently there. That leaves one place to go for either playlists for the artist or the album. If there isn't this ability now, can it be added in the future?
Thanks,
Jeff