I recently migrated from Windows, where I've been using Foobar2000 for a long time. I've been looking for a music player that replaces a feature I considered basic.
What I need is a player that has a play random song command (which can be sent from the command line). Note, that this is different from shuffle, which most players have. In shuffle, the order of the songs is mixed, and the playback is random. What I am looking for is something where playback is ordered, but when a certain command is issued a song is randomly picked and the playback jumps to it; playback then continues on in the normal sorted order.
The closest I found was gmusicbrowser, which has a random album command. This is close, but I'd prefer an actual random song.
I don't care about things like looking up lyrics or fancy library interfaces, just a simple playlist that can handle 30k+ songs. I'd prefer something with a gui, but I could do command line only if need be.
Edit: To clarify what I consider a normal ordered playback. It should play back in order of band, then year, then album, then track (or something similar, this should probably be configurable somewhere anyway). The only time it should deviate from this, and jump to a random song, is when it receives the random song command.
mpd
(music player daemon) +mpc
in a shell script.