In iTunes I’m able to make a smart playlist that is “100 random songs that haven’t been played”. Or “50 random songs that were last played over a year ago”. (Basically, I’m trying to rediscover my music.) Is there anyway to do this in Plex? The best I can do is to get some songs, but it just sta…

Thanks. I’ve done this but still only end up with almost whole albums, not a random collection. My filter is “Track Last Played… in not the last… 1 year”, and limited to 100 items. But I end up with 100 songs from the first artists (alphabetically) of my library. Any trick to get a random collec…

Plex considers the sorting applied when you created the playlist. So if you view your songs by album artist or album title, there’ll be whole albums in your playlist. You can apply some different order, but from what I can see there’s no true randomizer

But you can sure play the playlist shuffled. Every Plex client I know has a shuffle button for playlists.

true… but the selection will alway be based on the 1st 100 items based on album title / album artist / bitrate / playback count / date added / …

@tom80H said: true… but the selection will alway be based on the 1st 100 items based on album title / album artist / bitrate / playback count / date added / … Then don’t restrict the number of items. It doesn’t make sense anyway to do that. Play with the other parameters or add another filter co…

I agree… it appears @tfjunk has a different use case in mind

Again thank you all for your help. I think part of my issue is getting my head thinking the “plex way”, vs iTunes or other systems. For instance, I still find it strange that you don’t make playlists in the Playlist view. In iTunes you make a playlist and fill it with songs. Plex you collect all…

Understood, if you want to sync the songs then you’ll have to limit the item count. You did it the only possible way. Unfortunately, when you save a play queue as a playlist, it is no longer a ‘smart’ playlist. So it won’t auto-update.

Possible? Playlist of 100 random unplayed songs

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OttoKerner February 15, 2018, 6:59pm 2

Yes, with ‘custom filters’.
You can make this filter then into a smart playlist (indicated with red in the screenshot).

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Possible? Playlist of 100 random unplayed songs

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