"Random Sort" Option for normal movie collections

I have made many large custom collections for things like “Academy Award Nominees in X category” or “Criterion Collection” using “Collections” tags. To sort these categories randomly on my “home page” I have to then duplicate the playlist as a “smart playlist” and sort it randomly. This results in redundant collections and confusion.

I would love it if Plex would just let me sort the original “Collection” randomly without having to duplicate it as a smart playlist.

Even better would be native URL support to add dynamic collections from sites like https://trakt.tv

Did you make playlists or did you make collections?

Collections, sorry

Something like this?

Yea I guess this is a duplicate request then… It can be deleted

You could also use labels to categorize your movies (add a “Criterion” label to the appropriate movies, for example) and then create a smart collection based on that. That would eliminate the problem of having duplicate collections and wouldn’t be much more work (maybe no extra work at all) than building a non-smart collection.

2024 clean-up: duplicate