It has been long enough. Enough users have asked for it… WHERE IS “SHUFFLE PLAY” FROM FOLDER VIEW??? My entire collection is organized through folders and NEED shuffle play from the folder view… Otherwise I have to have a ridiculous amount of libraries and playlists to do what I want… I have alrea…

Which Plex client are you talking about exactly?

-Media server client -Android client (phone & ShieldTV) -Amazon FireTV client -Windows Phone client None of them allow SHUFFLE PLAY while in FOLDER VIEW…

The whole idea of Plex is not to need folders for organization (as long as they’re sufficiently structured to allow Plex to properly organize them). What particular organization are you missing based on the filtering/structuring offered by Plex itself? Instead of “having to have a ridiculous amoun…

“OTHER VIDEOS” needs FOLDER VIEW to access in any organized fashion… And that needs SHUFFLE PLAY while in the FOLDER VIEW.

It doesn’t – not necessarily. Considering about the shuffle I had (wrongly?) assumed this was about your music. However… with other video you sort of picked the only use case where Plex fails to lookup any metadata – unless you have it embedded in your files (which will then allow the exact same l…

…So this is something that needs to be added to Plex… Home videos, random internet videos… etc… are just woefully neglected, but they can easily be addressed with SHUFFLE PLAY while in FOLDER VIEW. PS tom80H: Is that how you talk… monotone… or do you emphasize import words to get your point across …

JS He’s correct, though. All caps is yelling. If you’d like to emphasize words there’s always bolding and italicizing. Both options are available on this forum :slight_smile:

Thanks for the info. We still need Shuffle Play while in Folder View for Other Videos :slight_smile:

Yes, my wife is being driven crazy since Plex updated the interface and she can no longer shuffle music within a folder. I tried meta tagging the music with genre tags but Plex is not updating the genres of the songs so she still cannot shuffle her songs. Are you all working on a fix? (If you can s…

If you organize you music/folder as proposed by Plex, your server will automatically assign genres and other metadata from online sources. If you refer to metadata embedded in those files… make sure you have local media assets in the agent settings for music enabled – you also might need to check U…

Shuffle Play from Folder View... WHERE IS IT?

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Shuffle Play from Folder View... WHERE IS IT?

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