Yes I have heard the Tap miss the beginnings of tracks sometimes, I can
only assume this has something to do with the power saving mode perhaps?
If you love your music then the Tap isn't the thing though it sounds
reasonable I reckon you'll probably appreciate your music more with a
B&W t7 or something similar. The Tap is a wonderful device to hear
speech or your talking books through, I have a problem with my Audible
account and I need to sort that but once done I'll be listening to
Audible with my Tap and other echo devices to enjoy.
On 18/02/2017 4:30 AM, Jim Ruby wrote:
From what I read the battery can last up to 9 hours and with hands free
enabled it says 8 hours. I like the tap, but do wish it sounded better, but
nice to have the alexa with me where ever I am at in the yard. Also I like
listening to my books with the tap better and she has more volume then the echo
dots do. One thing I noticed about the tap though it when it first starts
playing the volume can be lower and some times it clips the beginning audio a
bit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:36 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Echo Tap hands free update
This arrived here, I had another look at the Tap settings and found the
option to enable the Hands Free mode right under the Battery status on
the HTML web page
Just to summarise again for those who don't know.
The Echo Tap is different from the Main Echo and the Echo Dot in that -
by default - the Tap doesn't listen for the wake word "Alex" followed by
a command, the user must press a button and then speak the commands.
With the Hands Free update the monitoring for the wake word "Alexa" can
be enabled thus the Tap functions as does the Dot etc though be warned
that this function will drain the battery significantly.
My suggestion is that you disable Hands Free if you intend to use the
Tap a lot on battery and enable it if you're using the Tap through its
mains adapter or a power bank.
Also note that Tap can be put to sleep with a simple short press of the
power button.
