That’s… that’s literally the point of this thread. That’s the whole point.
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I have multiple playlists that have different cinematic universes that have crossovers. What I want to know is how can I see play position in the playlists. Some of these playlists are multidays long so watching straight through is not much of an option. I would like to see an option to view Playlist progress.
Why is this not already a feature? 
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Because we aren’t vocal enough on it. The squeaky wheel, and all
After digging around, I figured out Infuse player has this capability. Another +1 to Infuse over the Plex player.
Infuse… is that only for Apple?
+1 can we please have this… Especially useful for long video playlists!
Definitely needed.
Example use case: You are listening to a playlist (music or music videos) and have to pause it to quickly show another Plex video (“hey, do you know video XYZ”). After that, you want to return to the playlist. Currently, you have to scroll aaall the way to the last position.
Or, alternatively for long playlists such as Marvel movies and tv shows together in one list.
Voting for this, this is my number 1 feature request.
I bought Plex with this feature in the top 3 reasons to buy it. My wife watches a lot of TV shows when she cooks but we like to skip the holiday episodes. So I was going to make a playlist of the shows she watches and remove the Holiday episodes. However, as there are about 300 shows now in the playlist, when she goes to watch and then stops, say on number 41, though it will show what she was watching and she can choose it on the home menu to resume, it does not play from the playlist but from that shows Plex default folder, I guess you can call it, so when it gets to a holiday episode it will play it because it is still in the main TV series folder and does not resume from the Playlist. I am guessing that is where it could be a bit tricky to code, that Plex should remember if you played a show from the main show list or from a playlist. So she has to go back into the play list and scroll allllllllll the way down to start where she left off. Another option would maybe have a better way to scroll in a playlist quicker? Like a page down option or a scroll bar on the side or something similar, until we are able, if we can, to get a resume from a playlist option? Thanks!
I absolutely agree with this… I don’t see why this is such an issue that Plex hasn’t addressed it yet. It’s been years… I understand Plex is free (I did buy the lifetime license)… and I am not one of those people that expect everything for free. but when something so rudimentary is causing issues, it can be extremely frustrating.
11 years later since this suggestion was made and here we are still hoping it will be added. If the server could take us directly to the last played item in the playlist it will already be a huge improvement.
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I sat down and going through my collection, i made a playlist containing several series.
When going to the playlist, I wonder greatly why there isn’t a feature as simple resume playlist.
I would like to make a feature request out of this, but then found this post dating back to 2014 so I hope it may help adding more posts to this feature request
Obviously this feature isn’t going to happen… Its been years since the feature has been requested. I have almost stopped using playlists altogether since I cannot resume where I was when I left the playlist.
I really don’t understand why there hasn’t been any movement. Plex knows WHERE I left off in a series, because when I return, I can resume in the library… Is it such a stretch to know the location of the episode and the method of playback in a playlist and pick it up there?
It doesn’t seem like such a hurdle to implement. Essentially what I am asking is the same capability every music player on the planet has. There must be no money in it.
If I am in a playlist… Whether I am playing randomly or in order, if I leave the playlist, I want to resume in the same state from when I left… What is so frickin hard about that?
I am a software engineer by trade. I know this isn’t hard… It has to be that Plex doesn’t see enough payoff to spend the time implementing it.
As much as I love Plex, I have to say this flaw is something that eats at me.
What I don’t understand is the lack of response from Plex on the matter. This whole thread is just users chatting about what we would like to see; what makes sense.
yeah, their lack of engagement has been frustrating over the years. BUMP
why do you hate playlists so much at Plex?? Its a VERY powerful tool to double or triple the use cases of how Plex Server is used. And it doesn’t cost anything much extra for you guys to make a 5x improvement to playlists. Its like you guys are simply programmers, but not appreciative of the functional/customer benefits of Plex Playlists.
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“Its like you guys are simply programmers, but not appreciative of the functional/customer benefits of Plex Playlists.”
If there were competent programmers on the Plex staff they would have designed playlists to shuffle properly. Sort algorithms are a basic function taught to first year programming students.
The way Plex representatives explain the shuffle feature in responses on this forum is that the crossed arrows function on the playlist page differs from the functionality of the crossed arrows function available from the three dot menu (but only if you deselect a default library option that refers to “smart playlists” ).
Unbelievable. As someone on another thread noted, if I wanted the player to ignore songs on my playlist I would not have added them to the playlist in the first place.
Please fix this basic playlist behavior. The default shuffle should return a true random selection unaffected by recent plays or arbitrary evaluations of song popularity. If those considerations are used they should be optional.
I don’t understand why this hasn’t been implemented. I created a playlist for watching all Star Wars movies and series in chronological order so I wouldn’t have to use a spreadsheet to keep track. So annoying this isn’t a feature.
