ITunes 12 Playlists on a NAS and syncing

iTunes 12 update disaster..
My library is stored on a NAS device which when selected as the music library no longer gives me a method to drag and drop tracks to a device, as the devices are no longer listed in the sidebar when a NAS based library is selected.!
This in itself is not great..
Plus the palava of getting the sidebar to appear and the column browser to appear every session is equally irksome.
The 'new' way to get tracks onto a device seems to be to create a playlist by dragging and dropping tracks via right hand 'add to playlist' sidebar.
This would be okay and quite user friendly EXCEPT..
It seems that you cannot create Playlists within a NAS based library..!
Has anybody else had this issue and found a working solution please?

I've the latest Fw for my Linkstation. The issue ia weid, as I can access the files THROUGH the finder no problem.
I have my standard iTunes library on my internal hd. The NAS is used for archiving all my CDs. Eventually it wil be used in a Sonos system for high quality streaming. When I am archiving, I Option+Click on iTunes and select the external library. Otherwise, I use the internal library (lossy) for all my other iTunes needs.

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