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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by mehta on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:52PM (#11220695)
I thought this already worked.

Okay Google... Play music will start Music app Okay Google... Start Radio will start NPR app

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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by saym on Thursday March 03, 2016 @07:45PM (#11221205)
I can say "Open Spotify" and it will open the app. Then I have a button on the helmet that sends the Play command. But I can't do anything robust like playing a specific artist.

Perhaps if I used Google Music the integration would be built out.

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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by nl on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:43AM (#11222246)
On my phone "Play <artist>" uses Google Music. "Play <artist> on Spotify" makes it use Spotify.
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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by khaosrage96 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:36PM (#11221447)
On my Nexus 6p saying "OK Google play 'artist'" will open Spotify and start playing the top songs of that artist. This does not work to play specific playlists though.
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