Creating Playlists From Folders...

I'm new to Itunes/Ipod... I recently purchased one, but before I did I created a folder on my hard drive containing subfolders with my mp3 collection and maticulously sorted them into genres like Oldies, techno, etc. So I have different folders containing different genres of music. I noticed that when I imported the folder containing subfolders with my music into Itunes I lost the folder structures. Is there any way I can create playlists based on what I had in those folders instead of me having to track down thousands of songs that I had in those folders and manually add them to playlists? Any help would be appreciated!

*Is there any way I can create playlists based on what I had in those folders*
Create a new playlist.
Drag the folders of music from the HD onto the playlist in iTunes.
The songs will get added to the library and put into this playlist.

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will only make the songs available for playback. You
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Hi, Hopperty63.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I would need clarification on your question to provide a better answer. However, if you want to create a playlist on your iPhone with music synced from your computer, see the information below.
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I have a file server in my basement running XP Pro SP2 which is set to share it's rather large iTunes Library. I also have a laptop which is set to look for shared libraries. That all works fine. I would LIKE to create playlists on the laptop FROM the shared library broadcasting from my fileserver. I would like to be able to sync my wife's iPod on the laptop utilizing the songs on the fileserver, also of course using the shared library and playlist created from them.
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This is NOT a gigabit network I am running, so I wont know if the drive mapping does anything until... probably morning. iTunes is adding the files as I type. I'll post back the results though. Thanks.
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Is there a way to do this so that I can use list view and play one album at a time? I've looked on the list and searched on the web.
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Hello all. I have a hard drive full of many gigs of music. Its all arranged in folders by type of music and then by the name of the artist and then the name of the album of the artist. I need to find a way for automatically creating itunes playlists based on what the name of the folder that contains the music. I can't use the common method of arranging the music into smart playlists by genre, artist, etc, because most of my MP3 tag data is incomplete or missing. I could do this manually, one at a time, by dragging and dropping music into playlists that I create, but doing this for five hundred albums would take all day. Is there a way that playlists can be generated automatically for me? I can't be the first person to try and do this. Thanks in advance.

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2) select the library at the top of the list in the left column
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Thank you, Katrina, but I really don't care for a "Wish List" playlist.
You can understand how my way of doing things would be useful to me (and hopefully some other people too).
By the way, if iTunes did it the right way before, why should it handle playlist names wrongly now?
In the course of improving their product Apple broke something. So the only sane thing for them to do is fix it or at least show me how to fix it temporarily until it's fixed in a later version.

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