I have a playlist with 705 songs in it. It seems to keep playing the same songs over and over and not reallyrandomizing how I think it should. Anyone else experience this?

[image] thugdoug: not reallyrandomizing how I think it should. What app are you using and how do you perceive it as not being random? Here’s a possibly helpful thread on how it works [image] What can I do to make Random Album Radio less repetitive? Plex Labs Random…

Actually… I have noticed this but it takes a lot of Random use to see it. In our case, my husband watches Golden Girls everyday in the kitchen in the background. He goes to the playlist we have of just the show and hits Shuffle. A “random” episode plays and then moves on to let it play for a few ho…

I’m just playing my playlist that I’ve created, not a album radio and I’m playing it directly off my Plex server, not with PlexAmp.

You could try creating a smart playlist, which excludes recently played items automatically from it. I’d be interested in the outcome, if you do it like this: (notice the sorting “by randomly”) [grafik]

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anon5074910 August 14, 2024, 4:44pm 4

Yes, I’ve experienced this. Have a look at this thread, it might be helpful Can I stop plexamp replaying a track from a shuffled smart playlist

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