{FEATURE REQUEST} - Smart Playlists / Collections for TV & Movie Library

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I would like to suggest building on the existing playlist and collection features by increasing their capabilities.
Playlists: Currently you can create a playlist with anything you want and this can be used to play in order or random continuously. I would like to see a smart playlist generator for Plex so that I can set my preferences and a list will be generated and updated automatically for example; If I create a playlist for all Big Bang Theory episodes, all my episodes should be added to this list and when new ones are added to the plex server it should be automatically added to this list as well.

Movies: The Collections features is really neat but it doesn’t always give you what you want. for example; when I filter for Romance & Comedy, instead of showing just the movies that contain both the genre tags ‘Romance’ and ‘Comedy’, I get ALL the romantic movies and ALL the comedy movies. This would also benefit from including a ‘smart’ feature whereas the collections are updated when a new movie is added that fits any of the Collection filters I have already done.

Just thoughts.

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smart playlists are already possible

There is no need for a playlist if you just want one show to play random episodes.
You just go to the preplay screen of the show and hit the Shuffle icon.

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yes i know this exists that way, maybe i should have given a different example. I have many playlists and most of them include more than one tv show for example a playlist for my son that includes 4-6 of his favorite shows, I would like for the playlist to automatically add a new episode to the playlist when it’s added to the server so that I don’t have to do it manually every time.

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