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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by illumin8 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:02PM (#13321071)
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.
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by cptskippy on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:22PM (#13321726)
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.
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by dalore on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:54PM (#13321940)
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.

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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by always_good on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:36PM (#13323950)
The dream:

    > they will fix it
The reality:

    > they are looking into it
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by bbcbasic on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:34PM (#13324486)
The dream:

    > they are looking into it
The reality:

    > it's written in a ticket somewhere
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Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System by cptskippy on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:44PM (#13323991)
I submit every card in the App, it hasn't helped yet.
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