Unlike the free version of Spotify mobile, which limits you to six song skips per hour, Amazon Prime subscribers can create a playlist of their favorites and skip until they land on the song they want. If you know how to curate your collection, this change is far from a dealbreaker. This can be frustrating if you’re not a fan of shuffling tunes. That’s because you can only listen to music through Prime Music on shuffle now. However, some people are not happy about the change just yet. The company just expanded the free music library to include 100 million songs. ![]() In the meantime, if you have come across any other way of making Alexa work as it once did, please don’t hesitate to share the tip with our readers.If you’re used to listening to ad-free music through Amazon Music Prime, your experience is about to get better. Whatever the case, let’s just hope they sort it out soon. In some cases, it can almost seem that the Amazon music app and Alexa aren’t even remotely synched anymore.įor us, it seems almost as if they are pushing their service to be that little bit worse so that people are pressured into buying into their unlimited music service. To us, this seems like a particularly strange problem for a previously reliable service to develop. We are hoping to have more in the future – or better yet, that the problem may just be fixed on their end. In fact, in some cases, people have had to change or even create an entirely new account with Amazon.Ībove are the only two fixes we have for this at the moment. Unfortunately, this can be quite an annoying problem to fix. Let’s say for example that your Spotify account is listed as being in Scotland, then you will need make sure that your Amazon account is also based there. This can cause all sorts of problems – especially if there are other account that it is working in unison with that are tied to different locations. For whatever reason, quite a few people have managed to accidentally link their Amazon accounts to a location that has nothing to do with them. Ensure that your account is linked to your current locationĪnother relatively common cause of these problems is this. If it does, we would recommend just saying a portion of the track name.Ģ. As an afterthought to this point, it does also seem that Alexa gets confused if the song title goes on for ages. “Alexa, play *song name* from *library/playlist name*.Īfter that, Alexa should easily be able to understand what you mean and locate the source of the music you want. After that, you can simply give the command. To exclude this as a probable cause, we would first suggest that you name your playlist or library something definite. This is our first guess as to what is happening. On occasion, when you are trying to play a song from My Music using Alexa, it may struggle to recognise it properly. Of course, you should also mention the name of the song you are trying to play too. Try mentioning the actual name of your library or playlist as you make your request. Basically, we will be asking for the same thing, but in a different way. It is best considered as a change in tactics. The first thing that we would recommend trying isn’t much of a ‘fix’ per se. Try vocalising the name of your library/playlist Right, so with that having been addressed, let’s get stuck into it!ġ. ![]() However, die to the unusual nature of the issue, we cannot guarantee that it will work in every eventuality. So, first, we are going to take a look at a few practical reasons why it may not be working as it should.įor many of you, these will work. It’s somewhat maddening that it would cease to do so after so long. This is supposed to be some very simple tech that was working perfectly fine for a period of years. For whatever reasons (though we have a theory on this that we’ll get to at the end), a massive amount of you are struggling to get Alexa to play music from your library. However, this has not been the case recently. It’s always played the tunes that we wanted to listen to and been able to source them from a whole host of popular streaming services without any hassle. For the most part, this tech has served us well over the last few years and become a permanent fixture in millions of homes. ![]() ![]() Generally though, these sketches have given Alexa a bad name. There are probably thousands of comedy sketches out there where the entire punchline is set up by an Alexa misunderstanding a request. This is no doubt because it comes with Alexa.Īlexa has been immortalised, not only by its own abilities, but also by pop culture. Of all of the smart home devices out there, Amazon’s Echo is probably one of the better known at this point.
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