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Playlist Improvement: Random Video Playback

10 January 2025 / Martin / Leave a Comment

Happy New Year!

The case for building Random Video Playback from playlists is an interesting one. Its advocates say that random videos from a playlist is like television. Not the television I knew where I would plan my watching based on a TV guide, but yes, it’s something like channel surfing. Random playback from a playlist is quite popular in music apps. The excitement for the listener when s/he never quite knows what is coming next.

Video publishers who love or even like random playback from playlists rejoice. FV Player now adds a random playback feature to our already powerful playlist features.

Here’s what our random playback feature is called and where to find it.

Randomize Autoplay Playlist

Randomize Autoplay Playlist is a FV Player Pro feature which allows you to present a random video to your website visitors. A random video from the playlist will autoplay at a random playback position. Then user can either watch the video or hit the “Refresh” button to go to another random video. You can see how this works right here:

Animale (le film);SEATREKKING -Trekking the Ocean;Tumi - The Great Escape;White Forest;Another World by Marta Bevacqua;How to Eat Mussels in France by Mots;White Whale by Guille Cascante;Everything is in Your Hands by Gioacchino Petronicce;Antonym by Johan Perjus & Freshteh Piltan;Memories of South Asia by Clemens Wirth;24 drones by Daito Manabe;Memoria by Wolfstreet;Memoria by Wolfstreet;Melt by Davis Silis;Visio by Remi Besse;Vindur by Vadim Sherbakov;The Essence of Sound by Susi Sie;Symphony of the Night by Vladimir Sifra;Skygarden by Fabian Weber;Reel 2017 by Lars Schneider;Pretty Far North by Michael Johansson;Amphitrite by Damien Krisl;Parfaittitude by Moire;Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton by Andrew Margetson;Flying Condition by Piotr Matejkowski;Youth by Tommaso Terigi;Animale (le film);SEATREKKING -Trekking the Ocean;Tumi - The Great Escape;White Forest;Another World by Marta Bevacqua;How to Eat Mussels in France by Mots;White Whale by Guille Cascante;Everything is in Your Hands by Gioacchino Petronicce;Antonym by Johan Perjus & Freshteh Piltan;Memories of South Asia by Clemens Wirth;24 drones by Daito Manabe;Memoria by Wolfstreet;Memoria by Wolfstreet;Melt by Davis Silis;Visio by Remi Besse;Vindur by Vadim Sherbakov;The Essence of Sound by Susi Sie;Symphony of the Night by Vladimir Sifra;Skygarden by Fabian Weber;Reel 2017 by Lars Schneider;Pretty Far North by Michael Johansson;Amphitrite by Damien Krisl;Parfaittitude by Moire;Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton by Andrew Margetson;Flying Condition by Piotr Matejkowski;Youth by Tommaso Terigi
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  • Refresh

Animale (le film)07:08

SEATREKKING -Trekking the Ocean04:15

Tumi - The Great Escape02:05

White Forest04:33

Another World by Marta Bevacqua03:49

How to Eat Mussels in France by Mots01:00

White Whale by Guille Cascante03:31

Everything is in Your Hands by Gioacchino Petronicce04:12

Antonym by Johan Perjus & Freshteh Piltan01:41

Memories of South Asia by Clemens Wirth02:40

24 drones by Daito Manabe02:45

Memoria by Wolfstreet02:10

Memoria by Wolfstreet02:10

Melt by Davis Silis03:37

Visio by Remi Besse02:23

Vindur by Vadim Sherbakov02:56

The Essence of Sound by Susi Sie01:03

Symphony of the Night by Vladimir Sifra02:39

Skygarden by Fabian Weber03:28

Reel 2017 by Lars Schneider02:19

Pretty Far North by Michael Johansson02:32

Amphitrite by Damien Krisl01:26

Parfaittitude by Moire01:26

Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton by Andrew Margetson03:57

Flying Condition by Piotr Matejkowski03:33

Youth by Tommaso Terigi01:09

Animale (le film)07:08

SEATREKKING -Trekking the Ocean04:15

Tumi - The Great Escape02:05

White Forest04:33

Another World by Marta Bevacqua03:49

How to Eat Mussels in France by Mots01:00

White Whale by Guille Cascante03:31

Everything is in Your Hands by Gioacchino Petronicce04:12

Antonym by Johan Perjus & Freshteh Piltan01:41

Memories of South Asia by Clemens Wirth02:40

24 drones by Daito Manabe02:45

Memoria by Wolfstreet02:10

Memoria by Wolfstreet02:10

Melt by Davis Silis03:37

Visio by Remi Besse02:23

Vindur by Vadim Sherbakov02:56

The Essence of Sound by Susi Sie01:03

Symphony of the Night by Vladimir Sifra02:39

Skygarden by Fabian Weber03:28

Reel 2017 by Lars Schneider02:19

Pretty Far North by Michael Johansson02:32

Amphitrite by Damien Krisl01:26

Parfaittitude by Moire01:26

Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton by Andrew Margetson03:57

Flying Condition by Piotr Matejkowski03:33

Youth by Tommaso Terigi01:09

To use the feature first enable it in Post Interface Options in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings.

“Randomize Autoplay Playlist” and “Refresh Random Video Button” in Post Interface Options

Then the checkboxes become available in FV Player editor:

Enabling “Randomize Autoplay Playlist” and “Refresh Random Video Button” for a player

Advice

If you don’t need random playback features, you should leave the feature off as it makes the interface more complicated. We are working very hard to simplify our existing interface, and make sure not to add new clutter. What’s great about our random video playback feature is that if you need it, it’s easy to find. And if you don’t, it disappears completely.


Random video playback came from by user request so don’t hesitate to write to us in the FV Player Requests and Feedback forums about any new feature ideas. There’s a very good chance we’ll build it.

Martin Vicenik

Martin Viceník

Martin graduated as an engineer in Computer Science from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He grew up in Liptovský Mikuláš in northern Slovakia next to the beautiful Tatra mountains. He is the developer behind our FV Player.

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