arressen wrote: > Hi there. Only just found time to start using this, and really enjoying > what I'm finding so far. Wanted to mention a couple of things in the > hope that there are easy fixes or workarounds. > > 1 - if I try to stream a track to an Echo, it starts at some random > point in the middle of the song. This happens with both .mp3 and .flac > files. > > 2 - I have several large playlists, so normally use the excellent > Dynamic Playlists plug-in. I then set these as favourites in folders (by > person). So far I have not managed to load/play any of these. Are there > any compatibility issues? > > The other thing I would really like is a shortcut for saying "Alexa ask > Media Server to..." repeatedly, but that's probably wishful thinking for > now at least. :-) >
That's quite strange and has not been reported before. The skill is not in the loop for stream-to-echo, other than starting up a 'stream.mp3' stream on your LMS with the desired file playing, and telling your Echo how to access that stream on your local network. Then the skill exits and your Echo feeds itself on LMS data until either the stream stops or you issue a different command. What version of LMS are you on? You can always say "Alexa, resume" to clear the Echo's buffer and re-align playback but that should not theoretically be necessary as it's done by the skill at handoff anyway. The way querying favorites works in LMS is very different to how e.g. albums/songs/genres or playlists work. The only way to retrieve your favorites is to parse a menu structure recursively which takes quite a bit of time with large lists. All skills have a max of 8 sec to respond to Alexa before Amazon gives up. In 8 sec you can retrieve (from LMS) about 12K songs, for example, but at most a few tens of favorites. So this is a limitation of the LMS architecture, I'm afraid. Not having nested favorites certainly helps. Why are these playlists not playable as regular playlists via the 'Alexa, ask MediaServer to *load *my XXX playlist' command? That command family can handle unlimited playlists. Check the online docs for the skill. The invocation name is required for custom skills so there's no way out of that. Also, skills must have two words in their invocation name - we are lucky that Alexa hears 'MediaServer' as 'Media Server' or invocation would be even more cumbersome :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
