soup playlists are playlists that are created on top of the "soup" of tunes on your Empeg. Originally, all tunes on the Empeg had to be put into playlists. In the 2.0 serious, this restriction was removed, which meant you had to have different way to view your tunes to see them... Enter "the soup" -- Views like "By Artist" or "By Album" are examples of soup playlists. Basically these are dynamically generated views of your tunes based on some criteria.