I’m not exactly interested in coding, however one thing has been living in my mind rent free since, well since streaming services have been around. I noticed a small issue that could use fine tuning on the matter of tv show streaming: every tv show is chronological.

It’s not a bad thing, keeps things in order and such from the first episode that isn’t removed to the last, showcasing the evolution of said show and characters. Hell it even works with story driven shows where a main story is laid out into several episodes.

However, I was watching a show and at one point hit a few episodes I didn’t much care for and thought about when I was watching tv how shows would be played seemingly at random, each episode picked without a second care for certain blocks, more or less, and how items different from streaming the show where it’s all in order for as long as you decide to stay there and watch/listen to it. Now here’s my question: Is it possible to code a program or something that would take a show and shuffle up the episodes and play them that way?

I would think it to be easy, mostly, just have each season correspond with a certain number, like season 1=1 or something like that, and every episode in said season likewise, and have 2 random number generators pick a number each, then it plays that episode and while it plays it continues, essentially setting up a queue until shut off. So for example, say the first one draws an 8, and the second a 23. Then it would go to season 8 of said show and play episode 23.

Like I mentioned in the title I just want to know if it can be done for a streaming service. Thanks in advance