anyone know an mp3 player with weighted shuffle play?

[classicdrogn]

Back in the days of yore, when Mac OS X was new and iTunes hadn't gone past a 50mb download, they added a feature called Smart Playlists, that for once in the entire history of things marketing tagged the "smart" label on was actually useful and even a major improvement - set one up and it would sift through your library each time a song started, finished, or was added, removed, or modified, and update itself to include whichever ones matched the criteria set, which pretty much amounted to being any kind of regular expression you could set up to search for in the mp3 details fields, be it a string in the title or artist/album, a number of stars in the rating, even things only tracked by the player itself like play count. You could even combine multiple criteria with logical operators if you wanted. Further, you could embed playlistts into other playlists, and it would still get the sort order right if some of them were these smart playlists.

Naturally, I set up a nested list that included smart lists sorted by star ratings a number of times equal to the number of stars (and eventually including asterisks in the title as well for more granularity) so a song with five stars and five asterisks was ten times as likely to be played than one with one star and no asterisk, thought a specific song's chances would also be modified by how many had any particular rating, of course. If I started getting tired of one and dropped the rating, it would play less often, if I heard one that hadn't played in a while and it stuck out as feeling fresh just raise the rating and it would get more time in the rotation. It worked very nicely, at least until marketing added more and more features that turned iTunes as a whole into a stuttering chunk of bloatware, and then I needed a Windon't system for programming classes and it did not have feature parity, and, and, and...

And these days I just use Rhythmbox because it's the default install on my Ubuntu live USB, and it doesn't do any of that, not even letting you manually add things to the play queue if they're already waiting in it, and any kind of play probability management has been unavailable so long I barely remember it aside from a flash of annoyance when I think of a particular song and have to manually search it out of the library to queue it up. So, I figured I'd ask if anyone knows of a player app that does something like that, hopefully with a Linux version or at least able to run in WINE? I feel like improving the soundtrack of my life might help raise my attitude, at least, and I'll take any little bit of help I can get with that to be honest.