Netflix Queue Manager, by badsegue.org
For months, I’ve been bitching about how netflix doesn’t provide any sort of shuffle feature. I have almost 200 movies in my queue, most of which were added during drunken clickfests through suggested similar movies and stuff with the same actors. This really sucks, because I tend to get 14 movies in a row starring Nicole Kidman, or 5 weeks of nothing but French vampire movies.
I finally wised up and remembered that anything my heart could possibly desire can probably be found on google with the right q=. After about 10 minutes, I came across badsegue.org’s Netflix Queue Manager. For some reason the greasemonkey script wouldn’t work (not surprising, since every greasemonkey script I try gives me the same “utils.js :: getContents :: line 167″ error), but those fancy lads were good enough to supply a js bookmark link to do the same.
It’s pretty awesome, supports shuffling and sorting. The only additional thing I could ask for is a balanced shuffle, rather than random, so I get stable genre intervals. Maybe I’ll crack open the code and check it out, it looks surprisingly simple.
