One of the few things I liked about iTunes during my brief foray into the Mac world (after which I promptly sold my iBook and came back to the PC) was the 'smart playlist' feature.

So now I'm curious: are there any PC MP3 players and/or Winamp v2.81 plugins that monitor tracks played and allow to you access and generate playlists based on frequency and other parameters a la iTunes?

AK

*bump*

Windows Media Player 9 does, auto building playlists off frequency of use, date/time/weekday/frequncy of playback, ratings, etc.
Have a good explore of its media library functions, its content management is a lot more powerful than most people realise, plus it properly supports UFT8, so tracks with non default character set names/folders (such as chinese/japanese) show up and can be played back.

However, if you want the ultimate in playlist management, you will probrobly want to try Helium². For me, its overkill, but if you have a properly ID3'd collected, it eally is great.

You can get a demo from http://www.helium2.com/eng/index.php

Media Jukebox 8 or Media Center 9 have smart playlists as well as tons of other organizational capabilities.

Rob

http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/index.html

These folks invented Smart Playlists!

-=Tim=-