Export a Playlist

I do a fair amount of editing in many of the available fields for most of my tracks. I use almost all of the fields (most notably 'comments', 'show', 'description'). I also find it helpful (and fun) to export my entire library using the export playlist feature. Unfortunately when using the export playlist function many of the fields are not exported (such as comments, show and description). Is there a way to also export those field to put in a text/excel format?
If not, i respectfully request that feature to be available in future versions. And also request some generic fields that users can use for any thing they desire.
Many thanks.

You can copy what you see in iTunes and paste directly into Excel -- no need to export and then import to Excel. This works for a playlist or your entire library, or even a manually-managed iPod. Just get the fields you want in view, then copy and paste. You cannot re-import from Excel to update your tags, but it is helpful to dump the information to search for things that need correcting in iTunes.
Also, this is a user-to-user forum, so your requests for Apple to do something will fall on deaf ears. If you want to submit feedback, try going here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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