About
Shuffle mixes slides from several playlists in a schedule. Say you have a corporate playlist, a local store playlist and a playlist for external advertisers. With Shuffle, you can tell the player to play 2 slides from the first, 1 slide from the second and 5 slides from the third, and then start over. Shuffle keeps track of where it is in each playlist.
Get Started
First of all, let’s confirm Shuffle is what you’re looking for.
Shuffle can grab slides from multiple playlists and play those slides in the order you want. For example, you have a Playlist A, a Playlist B, and a Playlist C, and you’d like slides from all playlists running on your TVs. You could set it up to play 3 slides from Playlist A, then 2 slides from Playlist B, and then 5 slides from Playlist C. That would look like this: A1-A2-A3-B1-B2-C1-C2-C3-C4-C5. Shuffle keeps track of all slides, so after the first cycle it grabs the next slides in each playlist. Instead of repeating A1-A2-A3-B1-B2-C1-C2-C3-C4-C5, it plays A1-A2-A3-B1-B2-C1-C2-C3-C4-C5-A4-A5-A6-B3-B4-C6-C7-C8-C9-C10, etc., until all slides in each playlist have been played.
Let’s take a look at how you set up Shuffled Playlists.
Go to Groups and Schedules, find the group that should be set up using Shuffled Playlists, and click Schedules.
Assuming you have no rules in this group, let’s click + Add schedule.
Give the schedule a name, toggle Repeat Daily on or off, and start adding the playlists you will be using. When you add the second playlist, the Shuffle feature appears on the right. Toggle on Shuffle and the shuffle ratio appears next to each playlist you’ve added.
All you have to do now is choose how many slides you’d like to play from each playlist in a cycle, then set the time, date, and days if necessary, and click Publish.
Options
These are the options you have when working with Shuffle.
Shuffle
Turn Shuffle on and off (Toggle)
Shuffle Ratio
Set the # of slides to be played from this playlist
FAQ
What happens when I use slide conditions and Shuffle?
Slides whose slide conditions aren’t met are skipped. At first, this interrupts the order in which the slides play.
