This topic is progressing nicely, thanks for all of your input and further questions. iTunes is a bit daunting to us oldies especially when you have old, possibly bad habits of folders.
I had a mess round last night with the devil’s own software and went to bed none the wiser, however the posts by Bob and Vintage have helped me understand a bit more. I guess tagging the tracks properly is essential for this system to work? Beatunes has sorted some of the mess out, but it’s starting to look like I may have to do most of them manually to set the genre to something I can relate to. I’d like the correct release year in all the tracks too. 1300 tracks x 2 mins per track editing = 40 – 50 hours….