Export songs to hard drive shuffled

i have about 6000 songs that i want to put on a external hard drive to play in my truck.how can i export them in a shuffled list onto the hard drive?all the songs are copied from my record and cd,s.

What music player in the truck will you use to play the songs? If that has a shuffle function then the order on the HD doesn't matter.
You could also try this : put your music into a giant playlist in iTunes and set it to Shuffle. Click the column on the left and you will see the "shuffle order" that iTunes has chosen. Drag the music to your HD and Finder will try to preserve that sequence - some tracks will have numbers inserted as prefixes (depending on album folders), others won't, or so my experiment showed. However the tracks that don't will be in track name order, which is kind of random, wouldn't you say?

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