Random File Copy, Part 2

Last week, I posted about how I wanted to figure out how to automate the process of being able to select a few random files from a directory and copy them someplace else.

First off, thank you to everyone who responded. I received a lot of good suggestions, which I am now trying to utilize. We'll see what I end up with. I also got emails from people that I didn't know were reading this. So, that was fun. People actually read this?

Almost everyone that emailed me had the same question - generally variants of:

"What kind of weird crap are you up to, where you would have the need to frequently copy files, but don't care which ones they are? Are you some sort of sick, sick, sicko, or is this just another one of your weird projects, where you try do weird crap for the sake of being weird or difficult?"

Anyway, the answer is, that I want to automate the process of synchronizing my Personal Media Player (PMP). I'm starting to get to the point where my music collection exceeds the capacity of my new player. So, I would like to have an automated process for deleting a portion of the music on the PMP, and then select songs at random to replace those.

That's it. There's nothing weird going on. And having to use Matlab to synchronize my PMP seemed excessively nerdy.