It’s happened to anyone who has used iTunes’ shuffling features very much: a track comes on and ruins the stream of music. For me, these tracks are old-time radio shows. I love them, but when I’m shuffling through my music, I don’t want a 30-minute program interrupting.
You can keep from ever having these tracks shuffle through by creating a playlist that excludes them and only using that playlist. But what’s more efficient – a playlist that has all of your songs but 50 or a way to just exclude those 50?
ITunes offers a feature that lets you designate songs as tracks to “skip when shuffling.” Here’s how you do it.
Here's How:
Begin by navigating through your iTunes library to find the song, songs, or album you want to skip when shuffling. Highlight it.
Use Get Info to open a window with the settings for the album. Do this by going to File -> Get Info or:
On a Mac -> Apple key + I
On Windows -> Control + IAt the bottom right of the window that pops up, one of the options is “Skip When Shuffling.” Check the box next to it and select “Yes.”
Click “OK.” This will ensure that the song or songs you’ve chosen will not show up in random shuffled playback or iTunes DJ, keeping you rocking along smoothly.
