HOWTO: Exclude songs when shuffling iTunes

I have a bunch of audio books and other non-music files in my iTunes library. When I set iTunes to shuffle through the songs in my library it naturally ends up playing one of those non-music files, causing me to stop whatever I'm doing and advance iTunes to the next song (using my iPhone remote, ha!).

When I realized how common a problem this must be for people, I looked around the settings in iTunes for a solution. Sure enough, you can tell iTunes to skip a file when shuffling! Just select the file (or group of files), right click, and choose Get Info -> Options -> Skip when shuffling.

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  1. Thanks for the tip! I run into this problem all the time. What kind of books and podcasts have you been listening to lately? Anything of great value you can recommend?