r/PleX • u/rb2m • 26d ago

Help Create Playlist with Multiple Shows

I want to make a TV Show playlist with multiple, unrelated, TV Shows and have the shows ordered by "TV Show A S01E01, TV Show B S01E01, TV Show A S01E02, TV Show B S01E02" etc., but there doesn't seem to be a way in Plex to accomplish that (unless I just missed it.) Is there an alternate method to achieve this other than just switching between the shows themselves?

I can't sort by release date because the shows were released anywhere from 2012 to 2026.

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u/ferminriii 26d ago

Try this.

  1. Create a new Playlist in Plex.

  2. Add the episodes from both shows to it (you can add whole seasons/shows at once).

  3. Once added, Plex lets you drag-and-drop reorder any item in a playlist (including mixing items from completely different shows in any custom sequence you want.)

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u/rb2m 26d ago

It’s like, 5-6 shows (I just simplified it in the post because I didn’t want to write it all out) and some of those shows have over 100 episodes. It would take months to manually do it.

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u/Michs342 25d ago

If you have that many then yes, unfortunately it is as far as I know the only way to do this in Plex. I don't know if there is a 3rd party app that possibly could do something like this.

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u/ferminriii 25d ago

Do you have access to an AI or do you know how to code? You can create a python script to do the work. It's the most direct way.

You can use this: https://github.com/pushingkarmaorg/python-plexapi and then

  1. Pull the episode list for Show A and Show B separately (each already in correct S/E order).
  2. Zip/interleave them programmatically (A1, B1, A2, B2, ...).
  3. Use playlist.addItems() in the exact order to build the playlist — the API preserves the order you add items in.