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Yup working. Its very impressive but assuming you don't JUST want a pat on back .... I think the focus needs to be on anything that can make requests reliable where possible and ergonomic to rectify. The Alexa environment doesnt seem to help (as you say it is very time sensitive for one), maybe API improvements (to be requested) or a helper plugin can help drive things forward. Somethings would require alot of coding complexity and cleverness to resolve i suspect like special characters and numbers (is that 21 or twenty one), maybe the alexa environment just isnt up to that. unfortunately tracknames and artistnames are inherently 'difficult' in this regard. I sometimes get the impression Alexa voice recognition is sometimes helpful and context aware...sometimes Alexa seems to hear 'thee' rather than 'the' (correctly)..maybe there are ways to leverage this cleverness to aid detection more accurately/frequently in the way commands are structured. (maybe being a formal music service would make voice recognition for music more reliable who knows) If the skill could be presented as a music service then switching away from amazon music to the skill would save a multitude of tedious misfires against amazon music. Its great when a match isnt found, the skill stays open waiting for a correction. Having to specify artist and trackname, makes playing tracks more difficult because you have to get both [interpreted] right. Maybe somesort of fuzzy matching ? maybe some sort of holding stream to give the skill time to be more clever? Maybe one has to be realistic and track detection wont ever be 95%+, maybe playlists and albums and artists is what is realistic to achieve and for that Ear Wax is working very well. My two main use cases are playlists and individual tracks (that in the moment i just want to play).

@Luke The chromecast play was started but the movie kept playing on the phone. It was playing both on the CC and on the phone. I stopped the cast to the CC and killed the Emby app on the Pixel, but apparently it's still playing according to the server.

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Over_the_Horizon.m4a

ok.. please give MTS another shot... Thanks

Yes I am not sure how to setup Advanced Settings, but setting it as Yes seems to be working just fine as videos are streaming smoothly.

2.234.2.0 still. Is there a newer one?

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

And you found it there, right?

Hi, what version number of the app are you on now?

Das ist aber sehr mühselig. Ich habe z.B. E438 wie bekomme ich heraus welche Staffel und Episode das ist?

I wish someone with Emby team would just develop an addon like Plex did. I know they don't care because they just want us to use the android app or shield tv, but the issue is Dolby Vision does not work on any of those (or P7 FEL in the Shield TV's Case). Many of us paid lifetime and to be honest, feels like a one and done. No real development in years.

Is this ever going to be resolved?

yes i can pm you, but might the json response from the skills api queries above tell you what is going on.. I note the api query for the artist returns multiple artists (but the correct one is indeed first). I note only one song is returned for MTS (and M T S is not the first in Artists node, and certainly not in the Albumartist node at all). I note that this Artist has no album as such, she has one track as member of "artists" on a compilation album, let me know if still needed and i will send a sample of it.

I would look for it on the meta site (like themoviedb) and name it the same as what they did. Ich würde es auf der Metaseite (wie z. B. themoviedb) suchen und es genauso benennen wie sie.

I'll consider it. It's not a priority right now.

That would mean you have messed with the advanced settings Did you read what I wrote? Happy you got it working with your setup.

will give it ago and report back in 6000 years, my library is VERY large

now back to megan thee stallion.. can you post a folder of the music here, in a zip file, that way I can load it into my environment and test what is going wrong? One or 2 tracks, I dont need an entire cd. Thank you

so are you now ready to give Ear Wax ?

Ich habe eine Serie 'der Alte' und laut Fernsehserien.de gibt es hier nur Episoden und keine Staffeln. Wie gehe ich damit um?

Hi, danke das geht.

oops they were indeed shuffled, i didnt listen that far before FWIW the audio feedback doesnt confirm that shuffled keyword is place is in place and is not distinguishable from standard playlist playback, eg "Playing Playlist Car Shuffled", might be a nice to have if trivial/fits the design. Alexa ecosystem support might be generally lifted if database searching was faster. By the the time you get down to songs the api really chugs, i will have another play with the sqllite performance settings, maybe i forgot to implement best practice on the most recent server build.

@ginjaninja Ear Wax is racing a few clocks: The provider server has to find the playlist, artist, album, or genre. The provider server has to return enough tracks. the underlying code has to build the queue and send Alexa a playable URL. Alexa has to receive that response before it decides the skill took too long To buy the time, you shorten the payload, you get music started and while the music is playing you perform the necessary tasks. So yes, the first 2 tracks will ALWAYS be the same, but from track 3 until the end, those tracks should be different. Not everyone has a super fast very powerful server, so I tend to favor the slower ones, when developing Ear Wax

I have previously purchased an android license (tablet), and a fire tv app license. On the fire tv I have been getting notices that there is a new android app available. After downloading it, it asks me to pay for a new license, but seems to only accept an emby premier license. I would like it to use my existing firestick app license. If that is not possible, I would not mind paying for an extra app license. I do not like the fact that it is not giving me a choice to get an app license.