What happened to importing plain text files in iTunes?

I used to be able to export the playlist containing all the music I wanted to listen to as a plain text file. I would then import this file into a spread sheet, sort as I desired, assign each song a number, sort on that number and save the resulting groups to plain text files. I would then import these text files as playlists. It appears that this capability has disappeared in the current version of iTunes. I am capable of working with the xml if I have to, but that is more effort than I think is necessary. Have I missed something?

I have been thinking about what you are suggesting and even with your last reply it does not solve the problem. I suspect you still do not see what I am driving towards. I have playlists for all songs with 5 starts, all songs with 4 stars, all songs with number of plays less than n. I also have playlists of those three that have not been played in n days. I listen to those sometimes. I also listen to my existing playlists which contain subsets all music not christmas and have at least a 3 start rating. This last set is not smart at present. With the current setup, music in those first 3 playlists get played more often. Any smart playlist that has to include not played in the last x will not play those songs more often unless I play those playlists more often. At present, to generate those non smart playlists I export, divide, and import information. Apple has changed the format it accepts on input. I either have to accept their new import method and start programming, or find a smart playlist method that solves this problem. I do not believe that anything yet suggested for smart solves the problem. The closest I have come is 3 playlists. One smart and two dumb. The smart one is all songs with rating above 3 and not christmas that have not been played in last x and is not in the two dumb ones and limit to 100. The dumb ones start empty. Let it populate, drag the list to one of the dumb ones. Let the smart one recompute. Drag it to the second dumb one. Play one list on each device. When playlist finishes, blank the dumb one for that device, sync, let iTunes repopulate the smart list, drag to dumb list and sync again. In the long term, I think I am better off programming.

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