"Random Sort" Option for normal movie collections

[Explorer_200]

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

[OttoKerner]

@Explorer_200

I have made many large custom playlists

Did you make playlists or did you make collections?

[Explorer_200]

Collections, sorry

[tom80H]

Something like this?

More collection ordering methods

I would love to see in non-smart collections the same ordering methods that exist in playlists. All with ascending/descending option: Title Year Release Date Critic Rating Audience Rating Rating Content Rating Duration Progress Plays Date Added Date Viewed Resolution Bitrate Randomly The “Randomly” ordering method would be great in the movies metadata screen, specially with big collections in clients with no scrolling like ATV. In this case, every time you access a movie the Collection sectio…

[Explorer_200]

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

[pshanew]

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.