How can I Automatically Sync Music by Album

I'm trying to figure out how I can automatically sync my music by album. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to listen to whole albums instead of individual tracks. I've got about 30 gigs of music in my iTunes Library, but only 7 gigs of space on my iPhone. What I want to do is have iTunes put a certain number of complete albums on my iPhone automatically. It could be defined by space (gigs), number of albums, time, whatever. But I want all the tracks from that album, not one or two. And I want iTunes to randomly update or refresh the list of albums when it syncs to my iPhone. I know I could do this manually through a playlist, but I don't have the time to do this on a regular basis. Is there any way to set up a smart playlist to do this for me? Any other solutions?

As a smartplaylist would be about the only way that it may be possible, I think you would have better responses over in the iTunes discussion group than here.

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