I get lots of questions about some of the basics of iTunes. These are things that may not be that obvious, but are practical to know and can make your use of iTunes more efficient. Heres a selection of some iTunes tips.

Theres no way in iTunes to see which playlist is playing. If youve started playing music in one playlist, then clicked something else, the playlist with the music wont look any different. However, theres a way to immediately jump to the current track that youre listening to: just press Command-L. This will highlight the currently playing track, in the location where you started playing it. So if you started playing music in a playlist, the song will be highlighted there; if you started playing in your Music library, iTunes will highlight it there.

iTunes offers a setting to exclude tracks from shuffling. In this case, go to your Music library then display the Column Browser (press Command-B if its not visible). Click the genre you want to exclude from shuffle. (If you dont see a Genre option, go to View -> Column Browser and select Genres to add that column.) Select all the tracks, then press Command-I to display the info window. Click the Options tab, then choose Yes from the pop-up menu next to the Skip When Shuffling option. Click OK and iTunes will prevent all of these songs from shuffling, both in iTunes and on any iPod or iOS device. You can do this for any genres you want to exclude from shuffling.