Plex Server - Selecting Shuffle consistantly selects same selection of videos repeatedly

[scott_erdtsieck.com]

After doing some additional google searches, appear this issue has been reported several times over the years.

Shuffle NOT Random

Perhaps someone can help me understand. This is both a roku and chromecast issue for me. So, for the past two months or so I have been using playlists. I made one large playlist of sitcoms that my fiancé and I both like, that we put on when we’re cooking dinner, etc. Depending on what we are doing we will watch anywhere from 3-8 episodes a night. I always start the playlist by shuffling. Here’s the issue: About 1-3 times per night we will have to skip an episode that we have seen in the previous…