Color sorting songs/playlists for library???

Is there an option, widget, or something I could use to keep track of what songs in my music library are listed on which play lists. Something along the lines of gmail and its colored lables.
The round about way I have to update my iTunes music library, if I am doing a rash of downloading, I forget what I've already added to my iPhone list.
playlists are such a visual thing, I just think utilizing our color vision would be cool.
secondary question that I havent spent much research on: I am only using iTunes because I have an iPhone, otherwise I love winamp. Is there any sort of way I can enqueue music from the my music folder in iTunes the way you can with winamp. I hate making playlists every day I want to listen to different 5-10 particular tracs in my music library. I want to be able to go to my music directory, right click the album folders or track titles and select "enqueue". Thats it.

Hi there I totally agree with you Sucks monkey balls  Well, well, well, I SUGGEST to structure the playlists: for example by GENRE (ie JAZZ)and then by AUTHOR or INTERPRETEE (ie MILES DAVIS) or, at least ALPHABETICALLY and not by creation date!! Sorry if my English is not very precise, hope you understand it! 

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