Hiding certain songs in iTunes

Is there a way to hide certain songs in iTunes or to lock them to prevent play by unauthorised users?
I have about 20 or 30 songs out of about 8000 that I don't want anyone except me to be able to play. Is there anyway I can either remove them from being listed, but still be able to access them? I also need them to stay on my iPhone and not be removed when I sync.
Alternatively is there a way I can "lock" certain songs in place on my iPhone so that they can't be removed by a sync even if removed from library.
Hiding them being seen in my library would be the best option if possible, though if played accidentally could they somehow be locked so that only certain users can play them - say password locking or something?
I know this is a wierd question - long story - but can this be done at all?

There isn't a way to password protect or make things invisible in iTunes. Probably the best you can do is backup these songs somewhere safe, then delete the files from their current locations on the computer, leaving the entires in iTunes. They can't be played because they can't be found. Providing you are using a recent build of iTunes when you sync the iPhone you will get a warning that the couldn't be copied because they weren't found, but the existing copy will be left alone. Note that certain builds of iTunes (perhaps it was all 9.x builds but I haven't paid too much attention) would remove files from the phone under such circumstances. If you just remove the items iTunes then they will be removed from the iPhone at next update. I think that will happen even if you're manually managing the iPhone, but again the behaviour may have changed at some point. I sync my iPhone and don't have time to experiment just now.
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