Smartlist random option

[chirpp]

Hello, i had posted a few years ago for options to create a playlist of music that would playback randomly.

Those directions worked good then.

Smartlist options

Hello, I am trying to build a smartlist for music and having some struggles. My first one I think I finally figured out. I had saved the smart list and went to the playlist folder and nothing appeared. Apparently it takes a while to create and show up there as my test playlists are appearing there now. Here’s my issue: I would like a smartlist of songs “track last played” in not last 6 months and not certain genres, like holiday, show tunes, etc. That all works when I click apply . However …

However, I moved my plex server from my synology device to a local computer and now when I’m creating this playlist, the options are different.
I’m wondering if this is a version thing and cannot be done or if I’m missing something.

What I’m trying to get is a list that can be refreshed, that is not children and holiday music, not played in 2 years and not skipped in 1 year. And play random artists. As it plays now it starts in alphabetical order and plays top of the alphabet. Ive seen other topics suggesting there is a random option in playback on plex clients (i use Ios) but im not seeing that in plexamp.

So here is my playlist as i am creating it:
https://…com.plexapp.plugins.library?source=1&pivot=library&key=%2Flibrary%2Fsections%2F1%2Fall%3Ftype%3D10%26sort%3Dartist.titleSort%252Calbum.titleSort%252Calbum.year%252Ctrack.absoluteIndex%252Ctrack.index%252Ctrack.titleSort%252Ctrack.id%26limit%3D200%26track.lastViewedAt%253C%253C%3D-2y%26and%3D1%26track.lastSkippedAt%253E%253E%3D-1y%26and%3D1%26album.genre%21%3D2332%26and%3D1%26album.genre%21%3D324%26and%3D1%26artist.genre%21%3D2332%26and%3D1%26artist.genre%21%3D324&advancedFilters=1

There is no area with “&sort=" as stated in the Tip from TeknoJunky (Post [TIP] --- how to create an autoplaylist with random sort**).

Is there a different way to add this?

Pete

[TeknoJunky]

if it isn’t there, you didn’t sort by anything. you need to add it.

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/media/da04c5cff24800df36d1e1a08e01be13384c44e6/com.plexapp.plugins.library?source=1&pivot=library&key=%2Flibrary%2Fsections%2F1%2Fall%3Ftype%3D10%26sort%3Dartist.titleSort%252Calbum.titleSort%252Calbum.year%252Ctrack.absoluteIndex%252Ctrack.index%252Ctrack.titleSort%252Ctrack.id%26limit%3D200%26track.lastViewedAt%253C%253C%3D-2y%26and%3D1%26track.lastSkippedAt%253E%253E%3D-1y%26and%3D1%26album.genre!%3D2332%26and%3D1%26album.genre!%3D324%26and%3D1%26artist.genre!%3D2332%26and%3D1%26artist.genre!%3D324&advancedFilters=1&sort=random

[chirpp]

Thanks. I did click the up/down arrow to sort on Album Artist. When I click down it sets this change:
“…t%3Dartist.titleSort%253Adesc%…” in the string.

I added it now and I did a refresh and it does not change it. I tried creating a new playlist and not saving it, and added it to the end of the url and still no change.

https://…com.plexapp.plugins.library?source=1&pivot=library&key=%2Flibrary%2Fsections%2F1%2Fall%3Ftype%3D10%26sort%3Dartist.titleSort%253Adesc%252Calbum.titleSort%252Calbum.year%252Ctrack.absoluteIndex%252Ctrack.index%252Ctrack.titleSort%252Ctrack.id%26limit%3D100%26track.lastSkippedAt%253C%253C%3D-2y%26and%3D1%26track.lastViewedAt%253C%253C%3D-1y&advancedFilters=1&sort=random

[chirpp]

[TeknoJunky]

ok, so titlesort means nothing, because the &sort=random shuffles the entire set.

you can remove any other sortkeywords=something and just have one &sort=random at the end.

every time that is refreshed, you will get a random order of tracks from the selected filters.

edit the url, press enter, note the tracks listed, press f5, verify you get a different set of tracks.

[chirpp]

I am sorry but it still is not working. Here is the url, I’m not seeing any sort keywords. I pressed enter to use the url, then f5/refresh. The same list starts with the beginning of the alphabet and is not randomized.

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/media/XXXXXX/com.plexapp.plugins.library?source=1&pivot=library&key=%2Flibrary%2Fsections%2F1%2Fall%3Ftype%3D10%26limit%3D200%26artist.genre!%3D2332%26and%3D1%26album.genre!%3D324%26and%3D1%26artist.genre!%3D324%26and%3D1%26track.lastSkippedAt%253C%253C%3D-1y%26and%3D1%26track.lastViewedAt%253C%253C%3D-2y&curatedKey=%2Fplaylists%2F9489&advancedFilters=1&sort=random

[TeknoJunky]

hmm yeah I think maybe they broke and/or removed it. will ask around

try this;

after type%3D10 add %26sort%3Drandom and remove the &sort=random at the end

like @ https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/media/XXXXXX/com.plexapp.plugins.library?source=1&pivot=library&key=%2Flibrary%2Fsections%2F1%2Fall%3Ftype%3D10%26sort%3Drandom%26limit%3D200%26artist.genre!%3D2332%26and%3D1%26album.genre!%3D324%26and%3D1%26artist.genre!%3D324%26and%3D1%26track.lastSkippedAt%253C%253C%3D-1y%26and%3D1%26track.lastViewedAt%253C%253C%3D-2y&curatedKey=%2Fplaylists%2F9489&advancedFilters=1

it looks like the url is ‘url encoded’

you can convert the url to/from being ‘encoded’ @ URL Decoder/Encoder to kind of see how it used to be.

not sure if this change is intentional or when it happened, but url encoding makes it much more difficult to read from a user perspective.

[chirpp]

That did it! Ill check out the decoder and make some other lists as well with that if possible.
I really appreciate your help!
Pete