Alexa stop playing after the first song ends on multi echo devices (3rd generation).

[Goober77 2]

It seems to be working correctly now when saying next song on long play songs.  It doesn't stop or play on different echo groups.  Was there an update to the Alexa plugin?

The only issue now is that telling it next song,  it will sometimes repeat the previous song or the song that was just played one song ago.  Maybe a way to randomize the Playlist first when you ask to play the shuffle playlist, then play through it in the order of the randomized playlist? Saying next song seems to randomize it again and unfortunately will sometimes play a recent song.  

This happened around 11pm last night. 

Thanks again for the great Emby support on getting the Alexa plugin to work with echo groups!   

[Goober77 2]

I had to recreate some of the playlist and now it stops the playlist whenever I ask it next song.  I noticed that in the "\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\userplaylists" that some of the playlist had  "Party [playlist] - 1" in the folder names with the original not with the " - 1" in the folder name where the playlist was pointing to the m3u file.  I was able to get it working again by disabling and reenabling the Alexa Emby skill.  Hopefully this helps someone with the same issue.  

 

 

[Goober77 2]

Nevermind spoke too soon.  It plays one playlist while the other playlist Next song just stops.  

 

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