Processing incoming mp3 files

Like many people, I follow a few mp3 blogs. Well, okay, that's an understatement. I probably subscribe to 15-20 mp3blogs, downloading songs a few at a time using the DownloadThemAll Firefox extension into an mp3blogs folder on my hard drive. I'm guessing this is a problem for a lot of people...the painful process of sitting down and going through that incoming mp3s folder of all of the stuff you've downloaded in the last week.

For a while now, I've been adding songs in batches when I've built up a few, and listening to them in one sitting. But that makes iTunes really messy, particularly because I use a smart playlist for the most recently added tracks. Most of my library is full albums so having a bunch of singlets really sticks out.

What I really want is to tell iTunes to make a smart playlist based upon file folder location -- tell it to make a playlist from all of the files in a particular folder. Or even just to say "make a list with all the files that have 'mp3blogs' in their filename" so I can easily tell what random non-full-album songs I've added to the library recently, but there doesn't seem to be an option to do that in iTunes. I tried getting this "Link playlist to folder" script to work, but no dice. When I run it, nothing happens. And when I try to compile, I get an access permissions that I can't grok. I'm not an l33r AppleScript hax0r so that doesn't help either.

One kink in my is that I turned off the "Copy files to iTunes Music Library" and "Keep my music folder organized" options since they were driving me nuts due to two things. First off, there's a shitload of bad ID3 tags in a lot of stuff I download. And secondly, I, um, often acquire items via BitTorrent on a laptop with limited hard drive space so it doesn't make sense to copy the files to iTunes' music library. Luckily, my main music collection lives in a separate, happy media server that is 95% well-organized and tagged.

I guess this wouldn't be such a big problem if all mp3 blogs had their mp3s as enclosures in their RSS feeds (most don't) or put their info in the ID3 tag somewhere (kludgy but Said the Gramophone does this.)

Anybody have a solution or suggestion to fix this problem? Suggestions as to a better/easier workflow are also encouraged.