I wrote a blog post a while back describing my irritation the limited random-ness of iTunes generated random/shuffled playlists.  The problem basically came down to a weak random number and I wrote a tool to generate some really random playlists.

I spent some time yesterday and did up a new version with some new features.

New features:

1. you can now permanently exclude albums and tracks

1. in a playlist, you can decrease the number of times an album or a artist appears in a playlist by 25%

Here's the new comprehensive manual:

• CTRL-P -- create a new random playlist

• CTRL-S -- write the playlist to iTunes (playlist name is set to the current date and time)

• CTRL-R -- exclude the current selected track's artist from the playlist

• CTRL-L -- exclude the current selected track's album from the playlist

• CTRL-T -- exclude the current selected track from the playlist

• CTRL-G -- exclude the current selected track's genre from the playlist

• CTRL-Shift-R -- decrease the number of times the current track's artist appears in the playlist by 25%

• CTRL-Shift-L -- decrease the number of times the current track's album appears in the playlist by 25%

-Ben