I have a playlist of 18, 496 unplayed tracks that was exported from Banshee. I'm now shuffle playing that playlist. How can I keep a record of the tracks that remain unplayed?

What I want to do is to play only the tracks not played on that playlist in a random order until I've heard every track once (yes, that may take a long time) - regardless of closing or restarting Amarok or rebooting the computer. The playlist doesn't have to be preserved - if Amarok can auto-edit it somehow that's OK.

Thanks.

You should in that case use the Dynamic Playlist. There already is an option for "Never played tracks".
What you definitely should not do is load all your tracks in the playlist at once. Putting those tracks in the collection is enough.

I also suggest you use the option to write back statistics to tracks, to make sure you keep that record.

OK - that would work for Amarok. But I've already heard some of my collection (library) with Banshee. The Unplayed playlist from it are the only tracks I want to listen to now in Amarok with the caveats I listed.

Well, I don't know how Banshee marks the tracks as read, can't really help you with that.

No, no. I exported all unplayed tracks in Banshee to a playlist titled Unplayed.

I only want to hear tracks from that playlist in a random order and I only want to hear them once.

OK I think I figured it out. I can sort my Unplayed playlist by Last Played and then edit the playlist by removing the tracks that I've heard.

I do appreciate your help. It always helps me think better when I have to describe my issue for someone else.