Is it possible to create a "sub" playlist within another?

Question

Hello,
For example, can you create a U2 playlist?...and then within that, create playlists for their albums?
Thanks,
Steve

Answer 1

I don't think you can do a "sub" playlist. But you can do some pretty tricky things with smart playlists. You can create a non-smart U2 playlist, and then do smart playlists based on your original U2 playlist.
Do this: make a non-smart playlist called "allU2".
Browse (click on the eyeball in the upper right) your way to U2, then select all those songs, drag 'em to your "allU2" playlist. You now have a regular playlist with all of your U2 in it.
Now make a smart playlist called "Achtung Baby" or whatever album you want.
When you're creating your smart playlist you wanna do this:
checkmark "match all of the following"
->Playlist ->Contains ->allU2 (then click the "+" sign to add another rule)
->Album ->Contains ->Achtung Baby
That's how you would make a "sub" playlist based on a playlist, but really that was just an exercise in making playlists. In order to create a playlist to listen to specific albums, you don't even need to mess with multiple playlists. Just do this: create a smart playlist title "achtung baby":
"match all of the following"
->artist ->contains ->U2
->album ->contains ->achtung baby
Or forget the "artist" line and have just this in your smart playlist:
->album ->contains ->achtung baby
OR, (lemmee see how long I can ramble on here), you could forgo the entire playlist trip and listen to albums through "Browse". Click Browse. In the Artists column scroll down to U2. You'll get a list of all your U2 albums in the righthand column and a list of all your U2 songs below. In albums click on whatever album you want. The songs list will only show songs from whatever album you clicked. You can play just those songs.
Or open-apple click on multiple albums to highlight multiple albums. You can then listen to U2 songs from multiple albums.
I love fiddling around with playlists.
One of my favorite smart playlists (I'm listening to it right now):
smart playlist titled "5* not played 1 week":
Match ->all of the following:
->Last played ->is not in the last ->1 ->weeks
->My rating ->is ->***
down below click a checkmark next to: Live Updating
That playlist only plays songs that are 5 stars that I haven't listened to in the last week.
Good luck and have fun! If you have any questions about playlists, post 'em here and I'll be more than happy to help you out.
Jerry
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