Is there a media/music player program that has a "biased" shuffle?
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00:00 Is There A Media/Music Player Program That Has A &Quot;Biased&Quot; Shuffle?
00:47 Answer 1 Score 1
01:12 Answer 2 Score 1
01:37 Answer 3 Score 2
01:55 Accepted Answer Score 4
02:07 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 4
Try 'Shaken, not stirred'. I had the same question as you did and this little freeware programme offers exactly what I wanted.
ANSWER 2
Score 2
In "iTunes DJ" (formerly "Party Shuffle"), click "Settings" and check "Play higher rated songs more often."
(This is not the same as the "Smart Playlists" mentioned in the question... it will still play low-rated/unrated songs.)
ANSWER 3
Score 1
The only program I've heard of that does this is LongPlayer. It was really slick and was made to do exactly what you are looking for. It seems to be abandoned, but was designed to work in conjunction with Winamp, iTunes, and XMMS. It may work with current versions of those programs.
Since it's open source, it may be possible to tear out the guts and try to reuse them in plugins for current programs.
ANSWER 4
Score 1
You can get the effect of a biased shuffle by creating a group of smart playlists.
- Create a playlist of 50 randomly selected five-star songs
- Another of 25 three-star songs
- And finally a playlist consisting of the first two playlists.
Now the last playlist will have a 5-star to 3-star song bias of 2:1.