ginjaninja 536 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 emby server stable. been trying some of the standard commands to troubleshoot/learn the skill. Alexa is hearing me correctly but skill seems to be doing the wrong thing. The curently playing alexa session isnt showing in the dashboard FWIW. With playback of audio the skill will be very usefull..thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 536 Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) setting current player not working edit might be useful if the currently available players could be listed to make sure using correct name? ask mb home player/device current player/device Edited December 29, 2023 by ginjaninja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 536 Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 The skill will playback content which does not match the command. Some cleverness is useful but could it be helpful to announce when a match isnt found and ask whether the selected alternative is desirable. play the album heroes by david bowie. alexa plays the song heroes (i assume because it cant match on album "heroes" (with quotes)) Fetching of music (Album) is extremely patchy if the object title has punctuation, & or numbers in it.. Could emby query the inbound phrase for a better exact match from eg musicbrainz https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Heroes+artist%3ADavid+Bowie&type=release_group&limit=25&method=advanced (matches '"Heroes"' with quotes) https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Angels+and+Electricity+artist%3AEddie+Reader&type=release_group&limit=25&method=advanced (matches 'Angels & Electricity' with ampersand) (not the best endpoint...just an example to illustrate point that muscibrainz has some helpful 'heuristic' searching.... parse out punctuation from search term and data base when matching eg Angels and Electricity searches for "Angels Electricity" as a last resort? try numbers '30' rather than words 'thirty', as a resort when no match if an artist is confidently matched but the album not matched, could Emby ask (via alexa) for selection from am announced numbered list of albums for artist,eg select 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 536 Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 not sure what i expected but not 'no media found'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 536 Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 I notice that media (music) i play on alexa isnt added to the linked user history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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