iTunes 10.4 Smart Playlists: Don't have the "..." ellipsis button to add nested conditions

Hold the Option key and the Plus sign will turn to an ellipsis.

This is helpful, Chris.

I just tried it and found this problem I don't know how to solve.

I have only two nested conditions in my smartplaylist - A & B - each with two sub conditions namely A1 & A2 and B1 & B2. Now I want to add (and continue to add in the future) more top level conditions C, D, E, ..., such that each of them will have their own sub conditions C1 & C2, D1 & D2, etc.

I have tried clicking option+"+" key on each of the "+" signs on the screen but none allows me to add another top level condition. All the conditions addes are in tier 2.

How do I achieve that? The only thing I can think of to do is to start from scratch again and make sure I end the smartplaylist with a dummy condition that is not nested and which will produce a result that is a subset of the nested conditions (so that I won't add any songs I don't want). Not elegant but it works but this is apple so I thought an elegant solution might exist.

Thanks.

Looks like it's kinda flaky and once you delete the top rule, you cannot create more top level rules again.

You'll have to create a new playlist.

This is exactly the issue I'm just discovering. I was going to post about it, but apparently it's already been answered. Thanks.

You can also create a new smart playlist that references the first. E.g. the first rule is "Playlist is <old playlist>" and then add refining rules.