# Scheduled Player: play at random multiple playlists

**URL:** <https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 17, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284 "2024-05-17T08:59:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v3/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284/1 "2024-05-17T08:59:42Z")

</div>

Hi, in some _Scheduled Player_ I have multiple playlists and every playlist runs for different time span and has multiple videos.  
Is it possible to run the videos in the different playlist at random?  
I’ll explain better with an example:

The _Scheduled Player_ has these 3 playlists:

- playlist A
- playlist B
- playlist C

playlist A has these videos:

- video 1
- video 2
- video 3

playlist B has these videos:

- video 4
- video 5
- video 6

playlist C has these videos:

- video 7
- video 8
- video 9

Instead of playing the videos sequentially from 1 to 9 I would like to play them at random like: 2, 5, 1, 9, 3, 7, 6, 4, 8.

I’ve seen [this discussion](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/option-to-show-x-randomly-selected-pages-from-playlist-in-scheduled-player/1175), but…I didn’t understand it ☹ …sorry!

Thanks!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/user_avatar/community.info-beamer.com/infobeamer-fw/32/3_2.png) [@infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/infobeamer-fw)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284/2 "2024-05-17T19:13:14Z")

</div>

If I understand the example correctly you want to globally shuffle all videos from the combined list containing all active playlist. That is unfortunately not possible with the scheduled player at the moment.

The linked post offers something different: It would allow you to select for example to play one random video (instead of all of the videos) from a playlist each time the next playback cycle starts from the beginning. This would result (for example) with a playback like this:

- video 2 (a random video selected from playlist A)
- video 6 (a random video selected from playlist B)
- video 7 (a random video selected from playlist C)
- video 3 (a random video selected from playlist A)
- … and so on…

From your example: Should the playback order remain the same each time? Or should the order by randomized again on every cycle?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v3/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284/3 "2024-05-21T06:44:13Z")

</div>

The playback order can (not should) change every time.  
That can work too, thanks!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/user_avatar/community.info-beamer.com/infobeamer-fw/32/3_2.png) [@infobeamer-fw](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/infobeamer-fw)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284/4 "2024-05-21T08:45:49Z")

</div>

Let me walk you through an alternative. Note that this requires a new package that is still being improved, but should handle everything you need already:

- Create a new playlist `A` on the [playlist tab](https://info-beamer.com/playlists).

- Repeat the process for playlist `B` and `C`.

- Create another playlist that mixes `A`, `B` and `C`.

- Playing this playlist requires you to first import this [package from here](https://info-beamer.com/pkg/41863). Create a new setup based on it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v3/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@andrea](https://community.info-beamer.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://community.info-beamer.com/t/scheduled-player-play-at-random-multiple-playlists/1284/5 "2024-05-21T10:51:14Z")

</div>

Hi Florian,  
thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. For now I’ll stick with the one random video per playlist.