Why can't iTunes enqueue?

... why no enqueue in iTunes so I can line up a list of songs to play?
(and Party Shuffle is not the same as enqueue.)

erugalatha wrote:
With the "Play next in party shuffle" option it should read "Play NOW in party shuffle".
NEXT and NOW are not the same when it comes to enqueuing music.
I am having the same issue. I came from the glory days of Winamp and curse Apple time and time again about this. More so back then than now, I would shuffle my entire library, but if the moment struck me for a certain song, as it often does, I could simply hit the J key for the "Jump to File" dialog, type the name I want, and click or key the enqueue option, closing the JtF dialog. This way the song was queued, and I could easily queue more to keep it going, or after it burnt the queue it would just go back to shuffling. It was so quick and efficient that it allowed me to use my laptop as my MP3 player in my car relatively safely.
The problem with iTunes DJ is if you are playing from your library, and you click "Play Next in iTunes DJ", it immediately throws you into the DJ playlist. Does Winamp have a killer patent on this simple feature?
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