Exclude songs from iTunes shuffle without iTunes?

Hello-
I have an iPhone 4, running OS 5.1. 1.
When I workout, I would like to exclude some songs, podcasts and audiobooks from shuffle mode. How can I do that?
I do not use iTunes and sync to my iCloud account instead. Is it feasible or do I need to install iTunes?
Thanks in advance.
Chris.

kristo5747 wrote:
I have about 1,700 songs (not including podcasts and audiobooks). Is creating a playlist the only way?
There is a tag setting in Get Info that you could use, "Skip when shuffling" is an option that is applied on a per-song basis. The downside is that these songs will never shuffle, and once you apply this change there does not seem to be a way to identify which ones you tagged like that. Unless there's a script to locate such tag elements, you'd have to also put something in the tag that is searchable (e.g. in Comments put "~Skip").

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