Amazon Prime Video Is Testing a Shuffle Feature Now, Too

Amazon ’s cyclosis service is presently examine a shuffle tool that could help flip-flop up your bout - watching act .

Prime Video ’s shuffle tool will not pull from Amazon ’s intact catalog but will alternatively scuffle episodes within a generate series where it ’s supported , the companionship reassert to Gizmodo . That might make it a useful tool for pop legacy series like , for exemplar , Friends or Seinfeld , but not so great for serialized TV . At present tense , the pecker is limited to only certain titles on Android - supported devices , meaning iOS user wo n’t have access to it at this time .

While the fellowship substantiate the test as well as how the shambling single-valued function works , it ’s ill-defined whether Amazon be after to roll the cock out more wide down the line .

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shambling features seem to be slowly bring in their way to cyclosis services and could , at least to some extent , assist with the overabundance of choice on many platform . Afterrunningitsownexperimentswith a shuffle functionality for eld , Netflix is set to officially debut ashuffle featurethat will rise titles based on a user ’s individual preference . The tool is expected to hit the political platform sometime in the first half of 2021 .

Amazon ’s feature clearly caters to a far more specific pool of content by limiting shuffling to episode within a specific serial on content for which it ’s available . But should the feature ever see a wide release for all Prime Video exploiter , it would make a plenty of common sense for old series thattend to betopperformerson streaming inspection and repair . It would also take the guesswork out of deciding which season in an occasional serial to bulge from when you ’re just looking for something to hurl on .

I , for one , would love to make shuffling Hellenic Robert Stack on Unsolved Mysteries my new normal .

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