Party Shuffle over Network

Hello all,
Sharing my music library over a network using Airtunes is great.
I really dig using Party Shuffle on my main Mac but when sharing to my iMac iTunes doesn't allow me to use Party Shuffle, only the regular Shuffle option.
Is there any way around this?
Any help would help.
Thanks!
OP

Count me in on this one. I logged in to check this and one other issue, both of which it appears are not yet available. Just to reiterate, I would like to see iTunes support:
1) Party Shuffle capability for shared playlists
2) Allow user to rate songs in shared playlists (permissions could be controlled on the serving library)
It looks like I'm in the same situation as at least several other people are - I want to store and manage just one main library (in the basement, in my case), while creating "shell" iTunes libraries on other household computers (or possibly media servers in the future) that access the shared library in the basement. Party Shuffle is fantastic; it seems that it wouldn't be too hard to update iTunes to serve random songs per Smart Playlist rules to a requesting client. After all, it's already serving songs as it is. Likewise, I've loaded my entire CD collection, but have only rated maybe half of my music to date. I like my basement, but it sure would be nice if I could rate songs while I stream them over my family room stereo (I have a special smart playlist that only feeds me unrated songs - only 1566 songs to go...).
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