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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by huehehue on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:41AM (#13229911)
I soooo wish there was a way to define non-Amazon defaults for a lot of things, but I get why they'd want to lock it down. I don't suppose there's an open-source alternative to hack on?

"play some Christmas music" doesn't work so well if you want to use Spotify -- it has to become "play some Christmas music from Spotify", which feels awkward.

"order X" defaults to Amazon, where I might want to voice-order groceries using Instacart or order a pizza using GrubHub/Uber Eats/whatever.

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by robbiemitchell on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:00PM (#13232140)
As of a couple months ago, you can set Spotify as your default music player -- so you no longer have to do this.
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