# Smarter "Add to Queue" **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** plex-web, plexamp\ **Created:** [November 22, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smarter-add-to-queue/656151 "2020-11-22T05:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wisdom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@Wisdom](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Wisdom)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/smarter-add-to-queue/656151/1 "2020-11-22T05:44:35Z")
The current extent of Add to Queue drops a block of songs - an album, a playlist, whatever - into the queue as a chunk. From a very literal standpoint, it does exactly what it says on the tin. That said, I think we can do better. When shuffle is enabled (or perhaps unilaterally, depending on media library? I.e., always for music, never for everything else?) new media added to the queue should be added more dynamically. At the most basic, interweaving the current queue with the new tracks. Think of shuffling a deck of cards: one preexisting, one new, one preexisting, one new, until the added songs are exhausted. This gives the user’s initial choice priority; they wanted to shuffle songs, now they’re shuffling two playlists together. Ideally, using Add to Queue would trigger Plex(amp) to reshuffle the _entire_ upcoming queue. Drop in a dozen new songs, remix the whole batch, and keep rolling. In such a given use case, the upcoming songs were already random - reshuffling once, twice, or a hundred times will have no perceptible impact on the user. I would like this to be viable in Plex web (browser-based playback, where the existing feature seems the most robust) as well as in Plexamp. Gold star if I can do it with my downloaded media too. To give a practical example, I like to organize my music into specific playlists. Being able to mix two (or more!) of them together via Add to Queue - you’d get a few from one, a few from another, and keep on getting the mix refreshed every time you listened through. ---
**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/smarter-add-to-queue/656151/2 "2021-04-18T02:01:41Z")
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/smarter-add-to-queue/656151/3 "2021-06-10T00:21:44Z")