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> It's my one gripe with Alexa is that the app name needs to be a prefixed. The thing that annoys me is when this doesn't work. > "Alexa, play <station name a
by cptskippy 10y ago
> It's my one gripe with Alexa is that the app name needs to be a prefixed.
The thing that annoys me is when this doesn't work.
> "Alexa, play <station name as it appears in Alexa App> on Pandora"
> "I couldn't find <station name as it appears in Alexa App>, here's some crap on Amazon Music"
- illumin8 10y agoYou know you can set the default music provider in the Alexa app, right? Setting this to Spotify allowed me to stop asking Alexa to "play X on spotify" and just say "play X" without getting bounced to Amazon music.
- cptskippy 10y agoYes. It doesn't help. Alexa will understand what was spoken perfectly, it shows as much in the App. Sometimes if finds the station, most of the time it doesn't. Regardless of the default music provider or the qualified "on Pandora", Alexa will fail to find the request and default to searching Prime Music.
- dalore 10y agoSubmit this to Amazon and they will fix it. I try and get it to play Kiss FM UK and says a strange word and then dies. Raised it to Amazon and they are looking into it.
- always_good 10y agoThe dream: > they will fix it The reality: > they are looking into it
- bbcbasic 10y agoThe dream: > they are looking into it The reality: > it's written in a ticket somewhere
- cptskippy 10y agoI submit every card in the App, it hasn't helped yet.
- ergothus 10y agoHuh. I have a very high degree of confidence that I used to do exactly that, though it's been a few months since I did so. I just tried now, and it doesn't work, just like you said. I wonder if they changed something, or my memory has tricked me. (The weird thing is not only that I remember doing it that way, but I have no memories of having any troubles with it, and this is certainly what I would do on my first try)