# Identifying video not playing from playlist

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327 "2025-01-07T05:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![richardraabu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@richardraabu](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardraabu)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327/1 "2025-01-07T05:14:03Z")

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I have a playlist with 900+ episodes that i just put on random as background noise. Every now and then i get an episode plex cannot play, is there a way to figure out what episode that is? Found some errors in Console, but they do not mention what video it was trying to play.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327/2 "2025-01-07T06:03:07Z")

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A post was split to a new topic: [Problem with live-tv streaming](https://forums.plex.tv/t/problem-with-live-tv-streaming/901334)

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**Author:** ![richardraabu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@richardraabu](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardraabu)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327/3 "2025-02-08T10:17:10Z")

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Is there no way of doing this?

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327/4 "2025-02-08T13:19:05Z")

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If the player you are using has a view of the current play queue, you can take a look at that.

If not, note down the current time.  
Then take a look into your [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) and scroll down to the time stamp that you noted down.  
(For this to work, you need to activate server [debug logging](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201643703-reporting-issues-with-plex-media-server/#toc-1) in advance. Do NOT activate “verbose” logging.)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/identifying-video-not-playing-from-playlist/901327/5 "2025-05-09T13:19:27Z")

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