If I understand your question correctly, emplode also does this. If you create a child playlist (or at least a child of a child playlist) then emplode atomatically copies things such as the artist field into the new child. It is useful if you do things like sorting your playlists by artist and then album, but I'm sure not everyone will like it either (can't please them all ay)
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