# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffle-random-start-time/91367)._