Alexa and Playlist

[djerniehoule 23]

I too am having issues playing my emby playlists on emby, any suggestions?

[djerniehoule 23]

How do I get Alexa to play my emby playlists?? I have it setup and it's working when asked to play songs, but with playlists I get nothing

 

[ginjaninja 605]

My understanding is that playlists are not supported. I recall @hatharry acknowledging that and saying playlist support was on the roadmap?...Im also looking forward to playlist support.

[djerniehoule 23]

Well let's get to the powers at be and get it working!

[djerniehoule 23]

Also is there a way to change the word that Alexa uses to open the Emby app? currently when you say open emby, I typically get envy, or web md - so aggravating. 

[djerniehoule 23]

I finally got Alexa working with Emby!!! Now how can we get it to play our playlists? Also, when we ask Alexa to Open "Emby" or "M.B." sometimes it'll open "Envy" or "Web MD" is there a way to change the word to activate that Emby app? As a pro subscriber, let's get this working guys. I am not, but there has to be some brainiacs that can get this accomplished.

[djerniehoule 23]

On 12/9/2018 at 10:59 PM, Angelblue05 said:

For the Sonos, I'd have to see the request in log. If you can try it and tell me the time you tried it at. I will check the logs and keep you posted on if it can be resolved.

 

I will add support for the playlist to be played directly on the echo and let you know when it's ready to be tested.

 

On 12/20/2018 at 11:21 PM, Angelblue05 said:

Just a quick update that I’ve started working on adding playlist playback on the device.

Do we have any update on this? Love to have my playlists play thru my echo device...

[djerniehoule 23]

Hmm so it’ll play on a fire stick? but not on echo? Let’s get this working!

[Luke 42077]

Duplicate of: 

 

[djerniehoule 23]

Has there been any update to get this to work?

[djerniehoule 23]

These guys seem to have figured it out, why can't we???? https://www.mymediaalexa.com/

 

[djerniehoule 23]

Let's get the ability to play our playlists through Alexa!

[djerniehoule 23]

On 12/3/2018 at 11:32 AM, Luke said:

Hi, we already support Alexa. What are we missing?

Playlist support!

[ginjaninja 605]

22 hours ago, djerniehoule said:

Hmm so it’ll play on a fire stick? but not on echo? Let’s get this working!

 

can you command an alexa to play playlist on firestick? i cant get alexa skill to play a playlist on the alexa or foreign player (web client and android tv tested)...despite the skill making the correct search call and the playlist being identified.

 

2024-09-24 13:58:35.156 Debug Server: http/1.1 GET https://‌‍‍XXX.mywire.org‌:8920/emby/Users/XXX/Items?SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Playlist&Recursive=true&SearchTerm=car. Source Ip: ‌‍‍XXX, UserAgent: node-fetch
2024-09-24 13:58:35.170 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍XXX. Time: 14ms. GET https://‌‍‍XXX.mywire.org‌:8920/emby/Users/XXX/Items?SortBy=SortName&IncludeItemTypes=Playlist&Recursive=true&SearchTerm=car
2024-09-24 13:58:35.453 Debug Server: http/1.1 GET https://‌‍‍XXX.mywire.org‌:8920/emby/Users/XXX/Items?SortBy=ListItemOrder&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Recursive=true&ParentId=290177. Source Ip: ‌‍‍XXX, UserAgent: node-fetch
2024-09-24 13:58:35.454 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Playlist 290177 C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\userplaylists\Car [playlist]\Car.m3u
2024-09-24 13:58:35.893 Debug Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to ‌‍‍XXX. Time: 440ms. GET https://‌‍‍XXX.mywire.org‌:8920/emby/Users/XXX/Items?SortBy=ListItemOrder&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Recursive=true&ParentId=290177

 

[djerniehoule 23]

I don't know how to control a firestick on alexa. When the emby skill is activated on alexa, if I ask "play playlist classic rock" it responds "The requested media is not found in the library"

[ginjaninja 605]

11 minutes ago, djerniehoule said:

I don't know how to control a firestick on alexa. When the emby skill is activated on alexa, if I ask "play playlist classic rock" it responds "The requested media is not found in the library"

ah i misunderstood, I get same behaviour as you then

[djerniehoule 23]

I see many services that can do this, but not emby... They want us to stay here so we have local access to our music, so let's get it going...

 

[hatharry 113]

Playlist support has been updated, this should be released in the next couple of days.

Until amazon supports playlists for multiple languages, I suggest naming the playlist a single word e.g. "Rock", "Chill"

[djerniehoule 23]

That would be great!!!! Let’s do this!!!!

[djerniehoule 23]

Please let us know when to try, so I'm not trying this constantly with no results... This would be an amazing add-on!

[djerniehoule 23]

Not sure if it's already active? I tried one of my playlists "trop rock" and it worked! The only thing is it seems to not understand "shuffle" what are the commands that will work?

[djerniehoule 23]

I noticed that it's only playing one song from a playlist then it stops..

[djerniehoule 23]

Weird, If I ask "Alexa Launch Emby", it say's "hello, I'm Emby. How Can I Assist You? For Example, you can say 'play a few songs' (by the way can that statement be changed to something less like "Welcome to Emby", the current is too long of an intro), I then ask "Play Playlist Rock" it say's I have encountered a glitch, can you say that again? If I repeat it say's the same thing, but if I say nothing it'll only play the first son from the playlist then it'll stop..

Some Suggestions:

1. Shorten the intro when the skill is opened

2. When asked to play a playlist say something like "Ok here is  your playlist rock, country, etc)

3. Allow shuffle mode to be turned on

4. Allow repeat mode

5. When asked to play an album have it say the name of the album, not just the first track

[djerniehoule 23]

Any update?

[djerniehoule 23]

It’ll play one song then stop