Video shuffle all and/or playlists

Hi all,

 

Currently I use Xbox 360s as extenders and use the video player to watch shows normally but the Media Center to watch special playlists.  I wrote a script that will take selected TV show series (user-definable), gather random numbers from each (user-definable), and make a new shuffled WVX playlist every day.  It works great.

 

I've decided to try a Roku 2 and see if there's a way to get something to work like this.  Plex has no playlist support so I hoped that making a Collection would do this.  Sadly, even TV collections can only be played sequentually - there's no "shuffle all" available for it at the root level.  I'd even considered making a script that would make a folder of symbolic links with the files named in random sequence that I could set up as a collection, but Plex doesn't recognize links (please consider fixing this).

 

I'd like to request this feature - a "shuffle all" function for collections or, really, any folder level.  And please put this in the Roku 2.

 

Thanks!

Full playlist support is not available but some clients do have shuffle (shuffle all), I know the chormecast supports it when casting from  iOS, works great for me.

Not sure which other configs currently support shuffle.

early 2021 clean-up: implemented