Does anyone else want or need this?

[MarvinB 2]

Hello,

I’ve spent years managing my own media servers and home setup, and after Plex changed direction and Alexa support became unreliable, I moved fully into Emby and started building a better voice-control solution for my own library.

I’ve been building a custom Alexa skill for my personal Emby music library because I got tired of the limitations with standard Alexa music control and the lack of good voice support for private libraries.

What I wanted was simple in theory:

“Alexa, ask Ear Wax to play The Police”

and have Alexa play music directly from my Emby library on Echo devices — artists, albums, playlists, genres, shuffle, continuous playback, and “what is playing” support.

In reality, it turned into a much larger project involving custom intents, queue management, playback recovery, persistent state, and Emby API integration.

At this point, the core system works reliably:

• artist / album / playlist / genre playback

• queue refill and continuous playback

• playback recovery

• “what is playing”

• stable two-step voice commands through Alexa

The only remaining annoyance is reliable one-sentence invocation versus the current two-step flow.

Before I spend time turning this into a proper beta with account linking and user setup, I wanted to ask:

Would other Emby users actually want something like this?

Specifically:

• Echo device playback from your own Emby music library

• voice control without relying on Amazon Music

• support for artists, albums, playlists, genres, and random mixes

Would you use it, or is this just a personal obsession that escaped containment?

 

Thank you,

 

Marvin