DVD Voice

Well, today I looked at my Netflix queue and noticed that it was over 200 movies. Ouch. This was just an experiment and now I’m looking at a boatload of movies and tv shows to watch! My problem now is the queue.

Bascially it works like this, I’ve found a movie I want to watch — say Indiana Jones. When I do I’m presented with all sorts of great movie choices that are similar. (We’ll get into the poor recommendation system later - but for now especially for a new user, at times it can be ok). So I’m given Star Wars, Die Hard, Back to the Future, Jaws, etc. And they all sound like great movies, so I add them to my queue.

Later I add a classic movie, Casablanca, and get another great round of selections: North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, All About Eve, The Maltese Falcon, etc.

This goes on for several movie genres - comedy, drama, etc. And when you look at the list, there is big clumps of action movies, followed by big clusters of comedy, etc. When one movie type starts, I’ll be watching action for weeks, and then Disney movies for another month. What’d be nice would be to mix these up, and have them in a more random fashion.

Netflix Queue management is easy. If you want to move a movie, just change the # in the queue listing and press “update” or “drag” the movie to the spot where you’d like it to be. Works great, if you have 10, 20 movies or so. I’d just like a nice big reshuffling! I’d like all the movies jumbled up for me, and the tv shows to stay at the bottom.

I searched the Internet looking around for NetFlix Hacks, and other ways to do this. The one that seems to work the best is this little “bookmarklet” that you add to your favorites or bookmarks, and while you are on your queue, click on the bookmark. You don’t go to a new webpage, your queue #s are all randomly jumbled. Yeah, tv shows and sequential movies (for instance the Indiana Jones series will be jumbled as well, but they are fairly easy to straighten out yourself. (I’d rather do it this way than not have the help!)

How To Do It
Ok, here’s the scoop, this is the bookmark: Netflix Queue Reshuffling

Take the above link, and right-click on it, and add it to your bookmarks. That’s it. Now, bring up the page with your netflix queue and click on your bookmark. Presto! It’s done.

Thanks to marius.org for the great tip - he refers to another blog, badsegue.org, which unfortunately isn’t opening for me today so I can’t see the details behind this great little bookmark! Enjoy!