Organizing music into subfolders?

Hi!
Music store offers subfolders for »sets« within a complete work.
like organizing i.e. Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons into »work 1: spring« and then putting the 3 sets beneath it; with the possibility to open/close it with the little triangle left in line.
Can I rearrange my own music in this way?
Any Suggestions?
Thanks,
susn

matthew is right. you cannot actually move your music into folders as such in itunes, but you can create the impression by creating several playlists (lists of music tracks in itunes) and then put these lists into a folder. to create a new playlist choose file>new playlist. then drag some tracks from your itunes library into the playlist (which you will see down the left hand side). keep creating new playlists, and then create a folder that you will put them in. do this from file>new folder. you should now be able to drag and drop your playlists into this new folder. you can even create folders within folders by creating a new folder and then dragging and dropping it into an existing folder.
hope this helps.

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