I am looking for a music playing application, with a playlist and the ability to play at random. XMMS does this. The problem with XMMS, is that after it plays a given file, it goes on and seeks another random file in the playlist and starts playing that. I would like it to instead stop after playing a single file once, and not find another random file until I tell the application to (something like having a forward button that seeks to another random file when I want another one randomly chosen). In other words, I would like to have it play a random file, allow me to play that file several times over until I am satisfied that I have heard it enough, before telling the app to go and play another random file from the playlist.

If you are wondering, I am using this as a audio flash cards type program. I hope I have not confused anyone with my description.

That's a pretty specific request; I doubt there's any programs out there that go into a single-song loop at random like that. But if you're an OK hacker, you could probably code that yourself... I can imagine doing this in ices/icecast which lets you write a python playlist handler, but it's not an especially pretty solution. There are open-source playlist generators that exist to make xmms playlists; I would try doing a google search for that (xmms playlist generator [python]) and see if one can be modified to suit your needs.