Can i keep songs in a playlist but keep them out of my library

Can anyone help me... I'd like to take the christmas songs out of my library, but still keep them on a playlist called 'christmas music' I'm sick of putting my library on shuffle at any time past christmas and having to go to my computer to press skip when the xmas songs come on. I'd love any help. There has to be a better way then creating a playlist called 'Every song but xmas music' Also if I uncheck the boxes next to the christmas songs in my library, they still transfer to my ipod right? Otherwise I would just do that. Thanks in advance.
PC Windows XP

Go to your Christmas playlist and hold control and click on on the checkbox next to one of the songs. This will deselect all of the songs on the playlist. You can use the same method to reselect them all. That way, none of your Christmas music plays, and it's easy to reselect them all when you update your iPod. I'm not sure if unselected music updates to an iPod. Maybe someone else here knows.

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