Plex TV Library has a shuffle option, but it just shuffles every episode randomly. This is chaos when you have shows like Lost or Dexter that are very clearly supposed to be watched in order. I propose an option that allows you to shuffle shows in your library, but plays them in Unwatched order. Sa…

I would honestly program this myself if I had access to the shuffle mechanism. I’ve been wanting this as an option for so long.

Would absolutely love this if I could play in episode order. I tried to finagle it with the smart playlists but the only option. Is to play then in air order. So you might get through 3 season of one show then the second picks up and so on.

any chance of this ever happening? Whenever I finish one show, I always have a hell of a time picking the next one to watch. Being able to just have shuffle pick the next episode of a show for me would be awesome.

Man, I can’t believe this has been implemented yet. I have spent so much time reading on how to implement this but nothing seams to work. So frustrating

I don’t mind it being out of order, it’s closer to simulating surfing channels. But I agree it should shuffle tv shows and not episodes. I have 300ish tv shows, but close to 600 episodes of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, so even though I have 300ish tv shows, there’s a 95% chance I get a Mr Rogers Neig…

I would love this feature, but enabled with a Playlist whereby you can select which TV Shows you would like in ‘TV Mode’. If you added 4 shows as in the above example, it would randomly select the different shows, but play the episodes in order for the TV show, thus providing you with your own ‘TV …

Is there any way to have Plex playback a group of television shows in sequential order, either through playlists or auto-play? I don’t care if the shows that gets selected is completely random, in fact I would prefer it. I just want Plex to select from a pool of shows and continue from the next un…

Like the pseudo tv suggestion? I’m not sure it’s mentioned in the OP but should be part of the suggestion/discussion. [image] PseudoTV Feature Suggestions Basically the ability to emulate the TV watching experience. eg, Watch TV channels created with your own media (and …

Yes, this seems similar to what I’m looking for. Though, reading through this post, it looks like this leans more towards setting up various channels that would constantly be playing through media. I’m looking for one playlist or channel that plays when I choose to play it, and will randomly cycle…

Someone created a script to do this but I’m a moron and don’t know how to implement it. Here it is: GitHub - robobeaver6/plex_playlist_generator: Generate a playlist of an arbatory Length on a Plex server for the next unplayed episode from random TV shows in the Library Please post directions for …

Shuffle SHOWS, not episodes when using the Library shuffle function

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tom80H December 22, 2020, 10:29pm 10

Like the pseudo tv suggestion?
I’m not sure it’s mentioned in the OP but should be part of the suggestion/discussion.

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Shuffle SHOWS, not episodes when using the Library shuffle function

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