Automatic Playlist Creator

I currently am running itunes on an imac and have about 22,000 songs in which I have collected over the years around 200GB of stuff.
I used to have them on my old macbook pro which is not doing too well and have decided to transfer them over. Upon doing so following the itunes transfer library instructions lost all the playlists I had created over the years.
What I am after is some sort of automatic playlist creator which will go and create the playlist based on the album name and songlist. It would be straight forward.
I do not mind paying for it. But need something to do it automatically.
Thanks again

You don't need Album, Artist, or Genre playlists. Use the Songs or List views and enable the column browser. You can use smart playlists for anything else that can use a rule based selection method.
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I have also Paid this morning, approximately 3-4 hours ago, and cannot play from my phone, or play ad free on my mac.
This quite frankly pisses me off and this is unacceptable. I paid money for your service which doesn't even work. Sooo give me a free month or fix your problems. I don't pay your company money for **bleep** that doesnt work.
I've recevied my Receipt of payment already, and it's processed through my bank account. This does not make me very happy at all.

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