Thank you for the suggestion, DDA.

I see how that can facilitate things. I would prefer the second method where I would create a flag called "rock" that includes all of the things I consider rock, which is pretty weird cause even Reggae makes it (but of course never disco nor rap!). Then I would use the search for year 1971, and subsequently apply a filter that requires the "rock" flag to be set.

I had tried this, but still ran into difficulties in setting the flags efficiently. (Please see the following post: http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=empeg_general&Number=93821&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=jules&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=93821)

I have, at the root of my playlists what are my genres. This is a limited number: Rock, Classical, Merengue, Salsa, Other Latin, Other English. Then I have artists, then albums, then tunes. I could just find a way to set the "rock" flag to all the tunes under my "rock" top hierarchy it would be great! but I have not been able to figure out how to do this. I can only set a flag for a group of tunes that I can actually have listed, either because they are *directly* contained in a playlist or because they the result of a search (or advanced search). But how do I have a list of tunes that directly and indirectly contained in a playlist? (e.g., all the tunes under my top level "rock" hierarchy?). Or how can set an advanced search to test for "would be included in the "rock" playlist?).