I Deleted "Recently Added" and then ...

This is a long story, and I apologize in advance - but in order to get an answer, I have to lay out everything that happened. Bear with me.

I am new to Ipods and iTunes. I have five or six CD's that contain about 1,000 songs which I downloaded from Napster in the early 1990's - back when Napster was both free and illegal. Anyway, I imported three of these CD's into iTunes and then synched my Ipod so that all of the songs are now on my Ipod.

I then imported a commercial CD (the original cast recording of Spamalot). I noticed that the tracks from Spamalot were scattered randomly in among the 600 or so tunes in my Music Library. I had to painstakingly sort through my entire library and pull the tunes out in order to put them into the playlist I had created for them called (you guessed it): Spamalot.

I wondered if there wasn't a better way. I wanted to see if I could create the playlist and then simply import the CD into the playlist. I was told that could not be done - but all I needed to do was look in the "Recently Added" playlist and they should all be there, ready to schlep into the Spamalot playlist quickly and easily.

The only problem with that was, that every song in my Music Library was already in my Recently Added playlist, so that didn't solve the problem, because I had to hunt through all those songs just the same as I had to hunt through all the songs in my Music Library.

So, I reasoned, the thing to do was to purge the Recently Added playlist before importing anything so that, when a CD such as Spamalot was imported, the only thing that would appear in Recently Added was the CD itself. I figured the way to purge the Recently Added playlist was to delete everything in there. I tried to do that, but could not find a way - iTunes, apparenly, won't let you delete songs in the Recently Added playlist.

So I simply deleted the entire, Recently Added playlist by right-clicking on the Recently Added playlist title and then hitting Delete. My thinking was that I could then recreate it and that, when I did, it would be empty and ready to receive only the songs that I added on any given occasion.

I was able to create a new, "Recently Added" playlist in the same manner you create any playlist. Only one problem - now, when I import tunes, nothing appears in the Recently Added playlist.

Did I mess up when I deleted Recently Added? How can I get back to where I was when I first downloaded iTunes? Recently Added worked just fine then. Am I going to have to uninstall/reinstall iTunes? Tell me there is an easier way.

Please!!!!

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