"Demotion" Plugin for iTunes

Even though my willingness to listen to a specific piece of music on my iPod depends heavily on my mood and I would ideally want to iPod to know that and stuff, I think that is a pipe dream and I need something else mid term.

So what about using the good old "4-5 stars" playlist and helping it a little?

There is songs that I skip a lot. They are on the list but somehow I mostly don't want to listen to them just now. On the other hand, they are good enough and I do not manually change them to 3 stars.

So what I need is a plugin that checks play count, skip count, last played date and last skipped date and demotes stuff that I have skipped too often or consistently.

The icing on the cake would be if it remembered and later promoted those back up when I have forgotten about them.

"Semi-Shuffle" for iTunes and iPod

I would love to have a plugin for iTunes that allowed me to create "suggestions", "connections" or "musical journeys".

Would work like this: after song A, I would normally (or often) like to listen to song C and sometimes to song F. So in iTunes, I drag a line from A to C and another one from A to F and I tell iTunes to use these when shuffling, one or the other.

Thing is: I think stars and playlists are fine but they do not come close to capturing the way I listen to music. There is no "mood" in there. No concept of memories attached to songs and the string of memories in my head. So we need more!

This being 2009, I would probably also want a way of importing those "connections" or "musical journeys" via social networks like last.fm, facebook or whatever else I am using.