Alexa will you just play the song I asked for??

vidapura

Here,
we have an amazon echo with about a week.
set up the app and all that.
Don't have a paid spotify account.

Would that be why Alexa won't play specific songs or bands?
I ask it to play, I dunno, "Nirnava.. but instead she responds with "Playing Nirvana radio from Spotify"

And of course its NOT actual Nirvana....

Or we ask it to Baby Shark for the kids.. and we get Baby Shark Radio...

So, what gives?

Also, can anyone get Alexa to play Newstalk ?
As in the irish radio station.. 107FM ...

I enbled that Irish Radio Player... but all she'll play off that is RTE 1.
I can say "Alexa play Today FM" and she does it just fine.. but Newstalk? No way.. I have heard about 50 different newstalks from across the globe at this stage.. but NOT the irish one...

All useful advice greatly appreciated...

If you have no service for music, where do you expect the echo to get the song?

You need to setup services by the app for them to work. Then setup voice recognition maybe if there's multiple users.

Radio is a basic free service but again you need to install the channels up want to use as the standard ones will be generic based on region

davo2001

Don't have a paid spotify account.

Thats the problem, you need one.

davo2001

There is a forum on boards that people share out a family spotify subscription, it works out at €30 for the year for your own one.
Well worth it.

EDIT: Here it is:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057764331

sundodger5

vidapura wrote: »

Here,
we have an amazon echo with about a week.
set up the app and all that.
Don't have a paid spotify account.

Would that be why Alexa won't play specific songs or bands?
I ask it to play, I dunno, "Nirnava.. but instead she responds with "Playing Nirvana radio from Spotify"

And of course its NOT actual Nirvana....

Or we ask it to Baby Shark for the kids.. and we get Baby Shark Radio...

So, what gives?

Also, can anyone get Alexa to play Newstalk ?
As in the irish radio station.. 107FM ...

I enbled that Irish Radio Player... but all she'll play off that is RTE 1.
I can say "Alexa play Today FM" and she does it just fine.. but Newstalk? No way.. I have heard about 50 different newstalks from across the globe at this stage.. but NOT the irish one...

All useful advice greatly appreciated...

Alexa. Play newstalk on irish radio player.
Check the skill in the app to see what way commands should be phrased.

cunavalos

For radio the free TuneIn app is built into all Echo devices

So for Newstalk you need to specify "Alexa Play Newstalk from/on TuneIn"