[braz]

Thanks all for the suggestions. I think for now I'll stick with the album smart playlists based on user rating. The delay in playing them from the context menu isn't too bad. Eventually I will likely try @DaveBlake's suggestion to split up my music library on disk. Looks like it shouldn't be a problem for Bliss, which I use to manage tags/artwork. I hesitate to do this though, as making changes to the playlists would entail moving the albums on disk, cleaning the library, and rescanning.