Which playlist?

Hi there
I'm a bit of an iTunes novice but I've managed to screw things up a bit somehow. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've got a shed load of songs in my music library, but they're not all allocated to playlists. I obviously want them to be in playlists. Is there any way I can find out which songs in the library are not assigned to playlists? If not, I'm going to have to manually go through hundreds of songs putting them in to playlists one by one I guess. I'm guessing that if songs are not in playlists, they won't play on my iPod right? Sorry for being such a halfwit.
CB

Songs do not have to be in a playlist to play on your ipod if you are autosyncing to your lirbary which is the default.
You can set your iPod to sync on one or more playlists and if you ahve done that tracks not in those playlists will not transfer.
If you want to find out which tracks are not in any playlist, try the following:
Make a playlist folder (from File menu) and drag all playlists into it. Maybe call the folder PLFolder
Make a new smart playlist not in the folder you just made.
Rule:
Playlist is not PLfolder.
Limit to unchecked
Live updating checked.
This playlist should have all the tracks not in any playlist.
You can drag the other playlists out of PLFolder when you are done.

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