# Shuffling large playlist does not play all items

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154>\
**Category:** Online Media Sources\
**Tags:** tidal\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154 "2018-11-30T01:49:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Daimyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/daimyo/32/213551_2.png) [@Daimyo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Daimyo)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/1 "2018-11-30T01:49:57Z")

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> When playing/shuffling a Tidal playlist, only the contents that are loaded/drawn on the app (IE, the first ~30 items in a playlist) are queued. The rest of the playlist is never queued, ~~perhaps unless you scroll to the bottom, thus ‘loading’ the rest of the items in a playlist~~ Tested this, did not work.

This was on a Tidal playlist with 245 items.

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**Author:** ![randhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@randhawk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/randhawk)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/2 "2018-11-30T16:43:57Z")

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What client are you using?  
The next set of tracks should load once your reach the bottom of what’s listed in the queue. Try playing or shuffling, open the queue, select the last track, and the queue should extend to include more items.

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**Author:** ![Daimyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/daimyo/32/213551_2.png) [@Daimyo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Daimyo)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/3 "2018-11-30T16:49:43Z")

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Plex for Android, and your suggestion did not work:

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/4 "2018-12-04T21:35:17Z")

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can you try opening the queue tapping the last item. giving a half a second to load/start playing and see if it loads more.

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**Author:** ![Daimyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/daimyo/32/213551_2.png) [@Daimyo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Daimyo)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/5 "2018-12-04T22:17:26Z")

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Did you check the video above?

Also, this issue specifically is the playlist will only start shuffling the first batch of items. So if I hit shuffle playlist 20 times, it will only select from the first batch of songs in the playlist, 20 times.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/shuffling-large-playlist-does-not-play-all-items/339154/6 "2019-03-04T22:31:10Z")

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