Hotkey or one-click way to set genre (or any info-field)? Plugin?

I'm a recent switchover from Winamp and am looking for a feature I miss. In Winamp there was a plugin I used (forgot the name now) where I went in beforehand and made presets each containing text for the genre, rating, artist and so on. Then anytime during playback you could press a single button or use a hotkey to apply one of those presets to the currently playing or highlighted (your choice) track. It was great for filling in missing info just by listening to the music. If I heard a song that isn't characterized by a band's normal style (say a rock band blays a blues song), I would press the "blue grass" button and it would set the right genre on that song.
Is there a plugin to do this in itunes? Perhaps a desktop widgit for OS X? I would switch to OS X for this feature alone.

what you need is to go to the section (playlist) and play, e.g. go to artist (The Beatles), you should able to play all The Beatles songs in shuffle

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