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.
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?
Hey Allan,
I’m not very big on podcasts or audio books, but I listen to the Off the Hook podcast regularly and the last great audio book I downloaded was David Allen’s Getting Things Done (you can find it for free on mininova.org).