Firstly, I do love smart shuffle and the library radio.
However, one of the inevitable drawbacks of its metadata sources is that songs with no user rating and no popularity metadata just never get played in library radio. For example, relatively obscure stuff that not enough people have ever scrobbled.
In an attempt to solve this I made a smart playlist with the filter “Track Rating = empty” so when I’m bored I can just listen to that and rate some tracks and hopefully, eventually, have most of my library rated.
However, when I pull up this smart playlist and hit shuffle, after a track or two Plex ‘helpfully’ starts adding songs that already have user ratings to the queue!
Separately, I have a second question: are 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star rated tracks “weighted” differently? Will 5-star tracks come up more often than 3-star tracks? I do know that rating a track less than 3-stars is essentially banishing it to the dimensional prison as far as Library Radio is concerned.
