# Feature request - Random Album **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [September 29, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742 "2016-09-29T03:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ai\_ki\_pez\_man](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ai_ki_pez_man/32/104543_2.png) [@ai\_ki\_pez\_man](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ai_ki_pez_man)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/1 "2016-09-29T03:33:22Z")
Plex has really solved a lot of issues for my music library, and I’m really enthusiastic about using it. I have a feature request, though - I’d like a function that will pick out a random album. I had a ZEN player many years ago that had this function and it fit very well with my listening habits. ---
**Author:** ![blackdawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/blackdawn/32/14584_2.png) [@blackdawn](https://forums.plex.tv/u/blackdawn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/2 "2016-10-04T09:09:52Z")
Came here to suggest this, though I would add the option to also being able to have Plex choose a random artist. ---
**Author:** ![arborslay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@arborslay](https://forums.plex.tv/u/arborslay)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/3 "2016-10-07T15:07:21Z")
Random albums and music caching on mobile devices are the two features that keep me from adding my music library back into Plex. ---
**Author:** ![fredericvanmol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d78d45/32.png) [@fredericvanmol](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fredericvanmol)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/4 "2017-01-27T07:14:44Z")
This is something I’d really like as well. ---
**Author:** ![loctones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@loctones](https://forums.plex.tv/u/loctones)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/5 "2017-02-23T22:59:41Z")
Yes, this is the only think keeping me from using Plex for all my media. Play a random album, or, better, just display a selection of random albums to choose from. This feature really helps me rediscover old albums that I haven’t listened to in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Mendes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Mendes](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Gilberto_Mendes)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/6 "2017-10-15T14:28:10Z")
Hello! I would like a plugin or native resource to show random albums. It would be great for movies. ---
**Author:** ![dreagan\_luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dreagan\_luna](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dreagan_luna)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/7 "2017-10-20T11:17:29Z")
This is something I really miss. I just moved from Madsonic to Plex for music, and I loved that I could get a list of random albums in my Sonos app generated by Madsonic. I have an enormous amount of music and having to traverse the entire album or artist list everytime to pick something out is really not “casual” enough, if you know what I mean. Is there any way to formally request this as a feature, or is this it…? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/8 "2018-03-16T02:02:55Z")
If you’re running the [latest beta server](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1633996/#Comment_1633996 "latest beta server"), and you’re using [Plexamp](https://plexamp.com "Plexamp"), you’ll now have the ability to shuffle albums. You even get a cool key combo to skip to the next album: `Shift+CommandOrControl+Option+Right`. (Our other apps are adding station support as well.) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/7/9/79205f7af5668abedafd6d5e97d74749f792fb5f.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-random-album/160742/9 "2020-01-07T21:58:42Z")