Either I’m nuts (possible) or Plex’s shuffle functionality does a poor job randomizing from the set. What’s your take?

I’ve been trying to figure out if it is just my perception or potential bias since our memories are fallible and whatnot.

It seems like TV show > Shuffle and Playlist (containing all episodes) > Shuffle yield different favored episodes (so maybe a different shuffle algo). And then when I play in episodic order, I recognize episodes that seemingly haven’t played in a while.

I suppose I could pull play counts off my server, but that’s no fun! Sooooo, is it just me?

  • @whynotzoidbergOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I hear what you’re saying. You’re right weighted random addresses watching in series order vs random. It doesn’t address the two shuffles yielding different high level patterns, though.

    While it could totally be randomization and coincidence, the consistency in the different episode repeats with Show > Shuffle vs Playlist > Shuffle catches the pattern sensing part of my brain.