[DaGeek]

I want to buy an album on iTunes, but I don't want it ever to play unless I purposely select it. That is to say, I want it available, but, if I click "play all songs" on my iPod or in my iTunes, I don't want my fifty Army running cadences to play ever . I just want them in my library so I can create my own special playlist so I can learn them when I have time with my iPod. Is there a way to do this? Is that what the checkmarks are next to the songs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Role Modlin]

IIRC the checks are to do exactly that. I rarely use shuffle or play everything in my library at once (it's over 160 gigs). When you are burning playlists to CD the checks are used to do that so I assume they work the same way all throughout iTunes.

[DaGeek]

Ooh, that seems to be it. I'm not sure if it translates over to the iPod, but I just messed around with the check marks on some playlists, and it looks like that'll do it! Thanks!

[Ax]

Originally Posted by DaGeek

Ooh, that seems to be it. I'm not sure if it translates over to the iPod, but I just messed around with the check marks on some playlists, and it looks like that'll do it! Thanks!

Yup, that'll do it, I think you have to select and option to only play checked music, but it may be set on that by default.

[normajean777]

When I did this before, I just highlighted the songs, and clicked edit. There was a choice to skip over them while shuffling. Unchecking the marks never seemed to work for me.

[SporkV]

Yeah, you want to check "Skip when shuffling" in the edit info tab as well.