Media Queue, a Roku, and Continuous Play is nearly a perfect combination. I would also like the ability to Randomize the playback order.
I have installed Plex + Roku in a chiropractor's office waiting room. It is perfect because the doctors can manage their own queue VERY easily. They love to add new videos that they find and remove ones over time. It would be nice if I could randomize the playback order.
Media Queue, a Roku, and Continuous Play is nearly a perfect combination. I would also like the ability to Randomize the playback order.
I have installed Plex + Roku in a chiropractor's office waiting room. It is perfect because the doctors can manage their own queue VERY easily. They love to add new videos that they find and remove ones over time. It would be nice if I could randomize the playback order.
It is not just the Queue. Shuffle option is missing on everything: Music playback, photos playback, home videos playback.
It is a MUST HAVE feature that needs to be brought in SOON
I'd like the ability to 'tag' certain shows to be included in the shuffle though. The one thing I miss about network TV is knowing at some point I could have some fluff sitcom I enjoy half-watching. I don't like decisions all the time and having Plex randomly pick what to watch out of a list of approved shows is really appealing.
I'd like the ability to 'tag' certain shows to be included in the shuffle though. The one thing I miss about network TV is knowing at some point I could have some fluff sitcom I enjoy half-watching. I don't like decisions all the time and having Plex randomly pick what to watch out of a list of approved shows is really appealing.
So we need for the Queue as well as everything else - in fact for all contexts and whatever the filter or selection criteria is - Shuffle needs to be there as option. It is strange that it is missing when it is fundamental feature available on every product I used for past x years
But tagging sounds like creating a Playlist and there lots of posts on that and a popular feature request already raised
It is not just the Queue. Shuffle option is missing on everything: Music playback, photos playback, home videos playback.
It is a MUST HAVE feature that needs to be brought in SOON
Entirely agreed about the shuffle option, especially for audio. Create a "playlist" and randomize playback of it. Would be great for any section of video, audio, photos.
I'd like the ability to 'tag' certain shows to be included in the shuffle though. The one thing I miss about network TV is knowing at some point I could have some fluff sitcom I enjoy half-watching. I don't like decisions all the time and having Plex randomly pick what to watch out of a list of approved shows is really appealing.
This is what I've been wanting for a long time. I want to create a "playlist" of episodes or entire seasons of The Simpsons, Seinfeld, etc. and then be able to go to that playlist and turn on shuffle. I know what you mean by network TV, I miss not knowing what episode of a rerun is coming on until it starts.
I have a suggestion to add onto the shuffle / continuous play idea. When starting/configuring shuffle, there could be three sets of options to select from:
Set 1 (Source mode) - All shows, Category(i.e. shows labeled as 'Drama'), or 'tagged' shows
Set 2 (Selection mode) - All Episodes, Unwatched Episodes, Watched Episodes
Set 3 (Shuffle mode) - Completely Random, Round-Robin Random (Every episode only plays once, no repeating, until all other episodes have been played once. Episode selection is still completely random otherwise.), Random Sequential (Shows are selected at random, but episodes from that show are always played sequentially).
This would allow users to configure shuffle for every need. A few examples:
All shows + All Episodes + Random Sequential = "TV mode", Let's you watch a variety of shows, while maintaining the proper episode orders when there is continuity between episodes
All shows + Unwatched Episodes + Random Sequential = "Resume TV mode", Let's you resume watching a variety of shows, while skipping episode's you've already seen
All shows + Watched Episodes + Random Sequential = "No-spoiler TV mode", Let's you put on a variety of shows for a friend/party, while avoiding episodes you haven't seen so you wont miss them and can watch them later.
'Tagged' Shows + All Episodes + Random Sequential = "Channel Mode", like TV mode, but lets users create their own custom "channel" that contains only certain shows. (note: it might be a good idea to let the user create many different custom playlist 'tags' for this purpose, so users can create many different custom channels!)
Category(Kids shows) + All Episodes + Completely Random = "Kids mode", good for kids shows with no/little continuity between episodes, and keeps playback from feeling repetitive and predictable if there are only a few shows.
Perhaps you could even save, give custom names, and assign hotkeys/shortcuts to shuffle profiles/configurations, so that everyone can access their most used shuffle profiles quickly and easily.
Functionality along these lines would be EXTREMELY useful to me, and I hope others would agree! If anyone has other ideas for options that could go into each set, or maybe an entirely new set of options that could be added, it would be great to hear those too!
I agree, I have frequently wanted to start a show for “white noise” while I’m doing something else and I wish I could just go to whichever show I want playing and hit a “Random Episode” button.
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented for libraries/shows/seasons/albums/… – for a queue to be shuffled, use the add-to-playlist button, then shuffle that playlist
