Randomly Select Files Based On Rating

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Windows file explorer(s) shows a Property under Details called Rating. Those ratings usually go from 1 to 5 stars. Is it possible to quasi-randomly select files from a folder using those ratings as an input? For example, suppose my folder has 100 five-star files and 200 four-star files. I want to randomly select 100 files. One possibility would be to say that I want those 100 split with some probability between the two ratings, like 60/40. A second might do it by putting the two groups of rating in different folders, and then having a two level random selection: 60/40 to choose which folder to go to, and then a random selection within that folder. There are scripts within media library programs that can do this, but I can envision a lot of other possibilities if someone could show me how to do this in Windows. Also, I could see someone wanting the 60/40 split to be exact. I’m OK with either a fixed split like that, or something based on a probability where it’s just close to 60/40. Whatever someone can help with I am agnostic about the scripting language, but it’s nice to have something I can just drop in a folder and double-click when I want to do the random selection.

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