Idea for new area of ITunes Library

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but I wanted to submit a suggestion for the future.
I have all kinds of audio files on my ipod including music and audiobooks and it's not too difficult to understand the difference, but aside from audiobooks, I have quite alot of recordings from live talks, seminars, conventions and public meetings which I listen to for traning and also work related, and I would like an another area to store these.
I saw recently "Ringtones" was added to ITunes, I'd like to propose the idea to have a section for "Live Recordings" or "Training Media"
Are there others like me who would like to see this?

If you go to Edit - Preferences - General, you can add Audiobooks to your choice on the main scren; however, I agree that these ought to be editable so you can use what you want

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