# Shuffle & random start time **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [January 26, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-random-start-time/91367 "2015-01-26T01:19:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![baudrunr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@baudrunr](https://forums.plex.tv/u/baudrunr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-random-start-time/91367/1 "2015-01-26T01:19:42Z")
Would love to see an option to have Shuffle (for movies and TV) start at a random point of the media it's shuffling. Sometimes I just don't want to have to choose what exactly to watch and would love to see Plex find a random point in some random TV or Movie so I can skip around my media library. Shuffle has been helping this but always starting at the beginning isn't random enough for me.   That being said, is there anyway to create a Playlist and hack the list's start times?     ---
**Author:** ![truthfulie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@truthfulie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/truthfulie)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-random-start-time/91367/2 "2015-01-26T14:12:11Z")
This sounds like psuedoTV, I'm pretty sure there is a thread on it somewhere. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-random-start-time/91367/3 "2021-06-26T00:17:36Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate (pseudo tv) > [@PseudoTV](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pseudotv/99226/): > > Basically the ability to emulate the TV watching experience. eg, Watch TV channels created with your own media (and potentially with online media).   Running a home media server is pretty awesome: beautiful cover art, playlists, and all your media right at your finger tips. One thing media centers fall short on, however, is recreating that feeling of aimlessly channel surfing just to scratch that TV watching itch.   Why Do I Want To Do This?   More and more people are “cutting the cord” a…