Suggestion: timestamp for 'Song last partially played'

I don't know anywhere better than this to make this suggestion, so if anyone knows a better place I'd appreciate it if you let me know.
I'd like to suggest an additional timestamp field to be able to use in smart playlists for when 'Song last partially played'.
I have a smart playlist that shows songs I haven't listened to for at least 2 weeks that are 4 stars and above, but this won't exclude songs where I, for example, listed to 4 minutes of the song and decided to skip the remaining minute to go to the next song.
To me, that's a played song -- but as far as I can tell I can only exclude by when a song was last skipped or when it was completely played.
Does anyone know where I can make this suggestion for a future version of iTunes / iPod?
Many thanks...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/
CG

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