I posted this to Sledge’s blog, but thought since I was about due for another post I’d do it here too”

One annoying thing can happen when using the iTrip in random mode on your entire library; the tiny tracks that you install into your iPod to “tune” your itrip are capabale of being played as well when you hose your entire collection to random play.

Playing one will cause your iPod to retune itself to a new channel frequency and cause you to have to try to set the frequency back while on the road. BIG HASSLE. DANGEROUS.

To stop this from occurring:

Make a Smart Playlist, tell it to ONLY include any and ALL songs over say 10 seconds long.

Call this playlist “random” or something memorable. if you want it up top of the playlist list, give it a number at the front (”1 Collection Random”

Drag the playlist on to the ipod. Update that puppy. (If yours Auto updates: right click iPod in tunes set to “iPod Options…” and turn it to “Manually manage all playlists”, and drag it over to the iPod, then set back to Auto.)

Now when in the car, when you want your whole collection to randomize, play the new random playlist.

You will now NOT play ANY itrip tuning tracks and reprogram your itrip as those tracks are only 5 seconds long and not included on that playlist.

TADAH!