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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1525490" data-attributes="member: 38928">There is a pre defined smart playlist in the sidebar called Recently Added. If you right click on it and choose properties you can set how many days or hours etc it looks at. It's a great way of seeing what you've just added.A playlist is just a way of grouping together a number of tracks. But all it is is pointers to the music held in the master library under 'Music'. All your tracks, regardless of whether they feature in a playlist or not need to be in the Music Library.<a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/" target="_blank">Mp3tag </a>can handle tagging multiple tracks at once. I have an 80 gb + library. Most of which is, like you, music collected over years. As MP3 players, iPods etc came around I realised that tagging them correctly was going to be an investment of my time but something that would leave my collection in a better state.This was pre-Mac and before adding them into iTunes. I just worked through them folder by folder in mp3tag adding album, artist, track number, genre etc. mp3tag, once it has an album name or artist can look up details. Some one offs etc needed manually tagging but many were able to pull data from the Internet. It's time consuming but now it's a two minute job to just add to that collection.Once all tagged I just dragged the lot into iTunes. I can now search by artist, album, genre, year. On my devices the album art is there.</blockquote>