You know you can set the default music provider in the Alexa app, right? Setting this to Spotify allowed me to stop asking Alexa to "play X on spotify" and just say "play X" without getting bounced to Amazon music.
Yes. It doesn't help. Alexa will understand what was spoken perfectly, it shows as much in the App. Sometimes if finds the station, most of the time it doesn't. Regardless of the default music provider or the qualified "on Pandora", Alexa will fail to find the request and default to searching Prime Music.
Submit this to Amazon and they will fix it.
I try and get it to play Kiss FM UK and says a strange word and then dies. Raised it to Amazon and they are looking into it.
Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
by always_good on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:36PM
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The dream:
> they will fix it
> they are looking into itThe dream:
> they are looking into it
> it's written in a ticket somewhereI submit every card in the App, it hasn't helped yet.
Huh. I have a very high degree of confidence that I used to do exactly that, though it's been a few months since I did so. I just tried now, and it doesn't work, just like you said.
I wonder if they changed something, or my memory has tricked me. (The weird thing is not only that I remember doing it that way, but I have no memories of having any troubles with it, and this is certainly what I would do on my first try)
The thing that annoys me is when this doesn't work.
> "Alexa, play <station name as it appears in Alexa App> on Pandora"
> "I couldn't find <station name as it appears in Alexa App>, here's some crap on Amazon Music"