iTunes playlist generation for Albums


I would like to to have something like a smart playlist, except that I would like it based upon albums instead of tracks. I can populate a list for a random selection of tracks, but most of my music is in albums where it makes more sense (to me) to play the album in the correct order.

I can get a rotation with Smart Playlists by telling Smart Playlists to select by album and only include tracks that have not been played for a month.

I have not seen anything in either the Automator or the Apple Script interfaces for iTunes that would let me enumerate albums and randomly select some of hem.

What I am left with is the approach of exporting an XML version of the library, and writing a program to: 1) perform the selection and write an XML file; and 2) cause iTunes to import the XML as a playlist.

Does anyone know of a more enlightened approach?


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John Holt

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