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Not sure if I am missing something here - I have a number of kids TV programmes for my young boys. There are times that I want to have Theatre play multiple episodes one after another from a series that has already been watched (many, many times when it comes to Peppa Pig!). As all episodes in the series have been watched, playback starts at episode 1 and then proceeds numerically through the series. However, everytime that I do this, playback starts at Episode 1 and proceeds numerically. If I try to shuffle play, then only one episode plays. The boys are starting to get a bit sick of the same few episode playing everyday. I do not have automatically play the next episode switched on as the rest of the time I don't want that functionality for the rest of the time. Is there anyway to play all in a shuffle fashion for a series?

I have just started using Emby for my music collection and am busy exploring how everything works. Perhaps this is how it is supposed to work, but I'm guessing it is not. When I navigate to an artist in the web app (or through http://tv.emby.media) and click on the 'shuffle' button, it starts playing random songs from my whole library, not (just) from the artist page that I was looking at. I'm using Emby Server 3.2.34.0 on Synology DSM 6.1.3. I can reproduce the issue with both Firefox 56.0 (64-bit) and Chrome 58.0.3029.81 (64-bit).

As per Luke's suggestion, turning this into a feature request - It would be nice if Shuffle didn't get killed if I pick another song to play while its already in shuffle mode, or in other words I want to skip the song its decided to play but still shuffle and move on to the next song. In relation to this, when I click Shuffle, the Shuffle button doesn't visually change to show its been selected, This would also be useful to click again to Unshuffle. If this can't be done, a Skip This Track button would be nice. Hope this isn't too confusing - it confuses me when I read through it....

Dear Emby I noticed today that the "shuffle" button is not responding again. I think I mentioned this a few updates ago and you guys fixed it pretty quickly. I just noticed that it's broken again. I think I'm on the latest version - EMBY Server 3.2.16 and using EMBY Theater 2.7.0 Could you please advise if I am doing something wrong please? I use this feather a lot on TV shows Much appreciated. Cheers Rob

Hello Emby - I'm running the latest Theater release and I noticed my "SHUFFLE" button is not working. It worked a few days ago, and it also works fine in the web client. I use this feature a lot as I have a lot of TV shows that I put on Shuffle. Can you please help me fix this? I've rebooted, restarted the server and nothing works. Weird that it works fine in the web client. Thanks for your help Rob

I am looking for a way to shuffle episodes of a certain TV show but have it stop after a certain amount of time... At the moment I am using a FireTV and at night I pick whatever cartoon TV show the kids would like to watch. Then I hit the shuffle all episodes button, put the TV on a timer, and let it roll... My issue is that it just plays and plays all night. Even though the TV is off it is still rolling through episodes. What ends up happening is that sometime in the night, the emby-server will crash, and I have to do a restart the next morning. Does anyone have a better way for me to do this?

So here is my usecase: 1) When I go to bed at night, I like to shuffle though TV shows I have through my FireTV Stick. 2) So I go to the TV show, select shuffle, put my tv on a sleep timer. The issue is, because my FireTV Stick doesn't turn off when my TV does, it will continue to fetch and play videos until I physically stop it myself. This causes my Emby Media server to endure unneeded processing and will ultimately cause my HDDs to fail at a much faster rate, since they are use non stop. I'd like to see a way in the system.xml file to set the maximum shuffle time or shuffle count before requesting if the user is still watching. Netflix implements this feature nicely and I think it will save emby users from having to replace their hardware as much. Perhaps every time a client requests content from the server, it can pass the server information about idle time, and if the idle time surpass what the server is set for, it can show a dialog on the client requesting to see if the user is still watching and would like to continue.

Hello, Is there any way to shuffle the currently play list? Like the shuffle button in any music player. I've searched every where and I can't find it. The only workaround I found to do this was creating a playlist and shuffling from there but this involves creating the playlist instead of just Queuing and shuffling from there. Thank you

This might not be an exclusive request for the AFTV, but i currently don't have an ATV in my house. The OSB (on screen banner?), when a TV series is being played with the shuffle or playall option the banner displays about 30 sec or a min prior to the next episode and lets you know which episode is next. This is great, expect that it takes up about 1/4 of the screen and is solid black. Can the background be set to either fully transparent or some various level of transparency? Or resize the video being played so it isn't obstructed? Thanks, Taxion

Hi, The problem i'm describing is happening on the android app, but started happening with the latest server update. When I use the voice command "Shuffle my favorite songs" (very cool, it works well) it seems to be shuffling the same few songs every time, as if it was doing an instant mix. I just checked it on the web interface and it is doing the same. Would love it if it was as before.

Will MB get a play all button for the music? I like to shuffle all my music and I think that would be a good feature to have.

I recently came across PseudoTV, a plugin for XBMC. Its quite possibly the coolest thing ever. It's basically a fancy form of media shuffle, It takes your media and generates channels. Its great for when you don't know what to watch, or just want something playing in the background. Anyway, I was thinking that perhaps MediaBrowser could do something like this. I'm not asking for MB to support the existing PseudoTV plugin or to attempt to clone it, but at the very least I would like to have some kind of video shuffle feature that will group certain media, and automatically play the next file. Perhaps this could be called "Jump In" where MB randomly takes a video file, picks a random start time, and starts playing it. Having this be available in the Web UI or MediaBrowser Theatre/Classic, would be amazing.