Soup views are great, but NOT if you're using 20gig worth of tracks. then it all turns into one big eh.. soup

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. A large number of people use their hierarchical playlists to reproduce something almost identical to soup views - i.e. Artist / Album / Tracks and variants thereof. Of course hierarchical playlists are a lot more flexible but nobody seems to think we could implement them in time for 1.0.

Rob