Sort by genre?

Hi.
I didn't find anything about this when I searched so I just gave it a go.
The thing is that everyone knows that when you import music to iTunes it also sorts it by putting it into the "MUSC -> ARTIST -> ALBUM" folders on your hard drive (if you choose it to do so). I wonder if there's a way to get it to sort the folders by "GENRE -> ARTIST -> ALBUM"? I read somewhere that there was a script for this on Doug's AppleScripts, but I never found one when I looked at that page.
Thanks in advance.

I agree Winston, everyone and his cat has a video recording device of some kind and just organising home videos would be justification for better organisational features.
It's still to be determined about encoding your own 5.1 but there are more and more camcorders now that purport to produce a 5.1 surround soundtrack - no idea how good they are but it's osmething consumers will increasingly want for purely legal reasons.
As an aside, seen elesewhere:
Ok, I managed to get Dolby Digital from a Video file. The steps are very easy:
Create an mp4 from your DVD or other source with Handbrake or Visual Hub - Audio Settings are not important
If you are ripping a DVD then open Mac the Ripper, choose Chapter extraction, open streams and select the Audio File you want to be extracted
You will now need Quicktime Pro
Open both files (the mp4 and the ac3) in Quicktime. Copy the ac3 stream and paste it to the mp4 file
Save the file as a MOV movie
Import it in iTunes
That was it!!!
I am now trying to figure out how to extract ac3 audio from mkv files...
AC

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