It’s funny how Plex keeps saying that they have programmed the shuffle correctly. I’ve been a developer for 20 years and love Plex. Do they really not trust every user who has ever tried to shuffle tv shows? Half of the shows played today are the same shows played yesterday. Thousands of shows and you’re lucky if two of the first ten shows haven’t played in the previous few days. It would take a Plex developer almost no effort to confirm the problem. Since the issue has existed for at least five years, there must be some benefit to not fixing the issue. I guess there’s no money to be made having users playback their own content.
And be nice if they had ‘Shuffle unwatched’ and ‘Shuffle all’.
You can achieve this in a similar fashion to my previous reply. You can just use the Unplayed filter and create a playlist from this and shuffle that.
Well, those Icons, like Shuffle, are only there to suggest there’s a way to really do what they indicate if you do something else completely.
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried it out and it works well. However, I have to re-create the playlist once a day since videos aren’t removed as they’re played. I also can’t create the playlist from the AppleTV; I have to log into Plex on a browser first.
I wish that Plex would properly implement the RNG. They’re either not seeding it correctly or don’t understand the algorithm. If they can’t figure it out, they can simply use the last played date to move recently viewed videos to the end of the list. A simple If statement can fix this long-standing shuffle issue.
I just noticed on the AppleTV that after I play a show it is removed from the playlist. Your solution of using a last played filter and smart playlist is perfect. Thanks for solving this shuffle problem.
Glad it worked out!
