# Shuffle play queue items **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** plexamp\ **Created:** [September 18, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778 "2020-09-18T21:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![acronym4177](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@acronym4177](https://forums.plex.tv/u/acronym4177)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778/1 "2020-09-18T21:14:26Z")
From what I can tell, “shuffle” is currently limited to artist, album, and playlist. For me, this limitation is the biggest concern and inconvenience I have with Plexamp. It essentially discourages me from building a varied play queue, as a result, my music listening experience isn’t as colorful as it could be. **Use case:** 1. 1. There are times when I want to quickly build a play queue consisting of various genre/mood/artist/album/etc. and have it all shuffled for the listening session. 2. This can kind of be worked around by having a playlist “Temporary” where I add songs to, although, that itself is quite inconvenient. It’s especially inconvenient as it’s not possible to remove all tracks from a playlist in Plexamp. It’s not possible to create a new playlist either. 2. Let’s say I’m currently listening to “Go to bed” playlist and want to add several other songs to the play queue for just this session. If I did that, I’d end up with a fixed order for the newly added tracks while the rest are shuffled. Just to have it mentioned, smart playlists are really useful, but it isn’t able to cover these cases, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Breeegz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/breeegz/32/5202_2.png) [@Breeegz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Breeegz)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778/2 "2020-09-19T00:16:24Z")
I was looking for another post about shuffling to add my two cents. Radio Stations aren’t very good if they always show up in the same order. I looked all over for a shuffle button, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist.| BTW, this is mostly with Tidal Streaming for Radio Stations, but I would like to shuffle some lists in my Plex Library and can’t find the shuffle button. ---
**Author:** ![acronym4177](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@acronym4177](https://forums.plex.tv/u/acronym4177)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778/3 "2020-09-19T01:10:53Z")
> Radio Stations aren’t very good if they always show up in the same order. I looked all over for a shuffle button, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist. Yes, this is the case. It’s only possible to initialize shuffle before adding songs to the play queue. That stands true for Radio Stations as well, which doesn’t allow for shuffle when initialized. Unlike in the regular Plex app where you can shuffle e.g. a playlist after it has been initialized (and as long as it hasn’t been modified), on Plexamp, it always has to be done before. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778/4 "2021-04-18T02:01:55Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Shuffle Now Playing Queue](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-now-playing-queue/188200): > > This should be a very simple feature to add. There is no good reason that if I queue multiple playlists that I can no longer shuffle the play queue. As a software engineer I find it ridiculous that what is likely a few lines of code has not been added (get random gen, shuffle play queue list). Instead someone went to the trouble to make sure the UI removes the shuffle button in this scenario. Such a simple feature is almost a killer for me in using Plex as a music player. UPDATE: Go to pl… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-play-queue-items/634778/5 "2021-06-10T00:21:50Z")