Search for song in a playlist

Hi all,
As I have created a number of playlists I am having difficulty trying to find a song in a playlist.
This way I can avoid duplicating songs in playlists or know if I have created a cd with a particular song.
Does anyone know how I can search for a song in a playlist?
Every time I conduct a search it seems to only be looking through my itunes library and not playlists.
Any help or info would be great!

Hi cheekyage,
Since there is no way to assign a "Playlist" to a specific piece of music, there is no way to find it specifically by "playlist". However, I have a suggestion that may be of help:
If you don't have a million songs already in Playlists, then if you go into each song that is currently assigned to a particular playlist, and assign a "playlist" tag that is sortable to it, then it will accomplish the same thing:
1.     Click on one of your Playlists and then click Edit at the top of the screen and click on Select All. Then click Command+I to Get Info on the group in that Playlist. You will get a dialogue box asking you if you want to edit information for multiple items - click on "Yes".
2.     On the Info tab, you will see a "Grouping" box.
3.     In the Grouping box type in the name of your Playlist
4.     Then click on OK
5.     Click on the screen to de-select the songs
6.     Click on View at the top of the screen and click on View Options
7.     In the "Personal" section click on Grouping to select it then close the View Options window
8.     In the top right-hand side of the Music display screen, you will see a little dropdown where you can change your display view. Change it to "List"
9.     You should now see your Grouping column with your playlist name next to the songs in that Playlist
Repeat steps 1-5 until you have assigned a Playlist names to all of the songs that are in a Playlist
Once you are done, you will be able to see if a song has a Playlist name already assigned to it when you do a search.
Hope this helps!
Post back with any questions!
Cheers,
GB

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