dissapointed with iTunes shared library

Set up FireFly and was thinking I could add the FireFly shared library to iTunes and use it as a centralized mp3 library. But you can't create custom playlists from the library, and you can't search on it - at least I haven't found a way yet.

Looks like I'm going to have to create a network share for the mp3's and set up iTunes on all computers to use that instead.