How to trick nano into thinking like a shuffle?

I am tired of the 300+ songs in various smart playlists I created on my nano. How do I get rid of these and randomly select, say, 100 other blues songs from my library? Is there an easy way to do something like an "autofill" on the nano, or set different parameters on the smart playlists to select completely different songs?

Here is the joy of smart playlists: You create one big playlist. Then you create smart playlists that pull songs out of the one big playlist, but add a new condition.
Say you create a big playlist called Rotate. Now you can create a new smart playlist with the conditions Playlist is Rotate AND Genre is Blues. Same songs, but you're pulling out just the one genre. And this playlist takes up no space on your nano, as the songs are already there.
Another technique is to enable the Genre menu on your nano. Then you don't have to create new playlists to break out different genres.
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