Create multiple playlists by dragging multiple folders?

As the subject says, I'd like to be able to drag multiple folders into iTunes' Playlist column to create a playlist for each folder (and given the same names as each folder). Unfortunately, iTunes only creates one folder named "Untitled Playlist" when multiple folders are added. My music library is divided into hundreds of folders, each named for the artist who's music is contained within. Having to individually drag each folder into iTunes is a royal pain.
Is there a shortcut or key combination that will allow this? Or is this just a major iTunes feature shortcoming? I can only hope that this is addressed in a future update.

My music library is divided into hundreds of folders, each named for the artist who's music is contained within. Having to individually drag each folder into iTunes is a royal pain.
Creating a playlist for each artist is also a pain, especially when iTunes does this automatically.
iTunes menu View -> Show browser.
Select the Genre, Artist, Album (or multiple items) to see only those items.
The more playlists you have the more it will slow down as i tneeds to rewrite the iTunes library file and iTunes library.xml after almost anything you do in iTunes such as listen to a song, skip a song, cahnge any info, etc.

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