Secondary Sorting - Why Not?

I've searched through the communities and it seems people have asked whether it is possible to create a Smart Playlist in which the songs are sorted by one column, and then where several songs have the same value in a column (say they are all rated five star), to choose a second column to sort by. The answer, apparently is no.
Strikes me as being very disappointing. Your iTunes library is, after all, simply a database, and if you can easily sort and filter by several columns in a spreadsheet or database, then it should be easy to do so in iTunes.
The default, it seems is for iTunes to always sort by Artist after it has sorted by your choice of sort column, which means that if you've got a smart playlist for all your favourite ska tracks, sorted in order of rating from five star to three, then you're going to have to listen to them either in a completely random order, or you're going to have to always listen to a string of Bad Manners, then The Beat, The Bodysnatchers, Madness, BB Seaton, Selecter, The Specials, etc. It'd be really nice to shuffle that up a bit, but still have your top rated stuff first.
Would there be support from the community for what must be a simple piece of database programming?

Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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