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General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: litfoo on August 09, 2015, 04:15:53 pm

Title: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: litfoo on August 09, 2015, 04:15:53 pm
hi there,

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have my own personal music uploaded to 'My Amazon Library' Playlist - one of them is called 'Elbow'

However, if i ask  - "Alexa, listen to my Elbow playlist."

Alexa replies - I can find the playlist called Elbow in your Music library.

Wondering how Alexa will recognise and play my personal playlits from my personal library

as far as the Amazon website states at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201628740, it should work

thanks,

litfoo
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: ScarlettPhoenix on August 10, 2015, 07:55:18 am
Litfoo, sometimes it's all in the asking, especially if it's something out of the ordinary.
Have you tried, "Alexa, play the playlist "Elbow" from my library?"
I have had to rethink the way I ask her for some of my albums/playlists.  I don't know if she would respond to the command of "Can I listen to...?"
Try that - see if it works.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: litfoo on August 10, 2015, 05:03:04 pm
Litfoo, sometimes it's all in the asking, especially if it's something out of the ordinary.
Have you tried, "Alexa, play the playlist "Elbow" from my library?"
I have had to rethink the way I ask her for some of my albums/playlists.  I don't know if she would respond to the command of "Can I listen to...?"
Try that - see if it works.

Hi there,

Thanks for your suggestion . I tried it, but Alexa came back:

"I can't  find the playlist called Elbow from my library in your Music library"

If I ask 'Alexa, shuffle my music' - this works and plays tracks from my library

Just seems to have issues playing 'my playlists' that I created from my music
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: jwlv on August 10, 2015, 09:56:49 pm
Maybe Alexa has trouble understanding the word "Elbow?"

As a test, try changing the name of your playlist to something more unique sounding.

I had a similar problem with Alexa understanding certain words. For my home automation setup, I created a group that controls all of my home automation devices. I named the group "house" and I also tried "entire house." For some reason, Alexa is unable to find the group, even though I clearly say, "Alexa, turn off the house [or entire house]." I've since changed the group name to "all lights" and Alexa still has some trouble understanding, but it does get it about 50% of the time.

Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: litfoo on August 11, 2015, 11:33:05 am
Maybe Alexa has trouble understanding the word "Elbow?"

As a test, try changing the name of your playlist to something more unique sounding.

I had a similar problem with Alexa understanding certain words. For my home automation setup, I created a group that controls all of my home automation devices. I named the group "house" and I also tried "entire house." For some reason, Alexa is unable to find the group, even though I clearly say, "Alexa, turn off the house [or entire house]." I've since changed the group name to "all lights" and Alexa still has some trouble understanding, but it does get it about 50% of the time.


Thanks for the suggestion. I changed it to something else but it is still not working unfortunately.

Would be good to hear if anyone has had any success with what I am trying to achieve.

Can anyone get the Echo to play either:

Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: Short Step on November 05, 2015, 06:34:48 pm
 I don't have any trouble with asking for my own playlists IF I am using my phone to connect with her. I have trouble getting her to work with my computer.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: mike27oct on November 05, 2015, 06:49:15 pm
Try getting into the Alexa app on your PC via:  alexa.amazon.com and see if that helps.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: kickmaleerie on December 14, 2015, 07:01:08 pm
hi there,

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have my own personal music uploaded to 'My Amazon Library' Playlist - one of them is called 'Elbow'

However, if i ask  - "Alexa, listen to my Elbow playlist."

Alexa replies - I can find the playlist called Elbow in your Music library.

Wondering how Alexa will recognise and play my personal playlits from my personal library

as far as the Amazon website states at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201628740, it should work

thanks,

litfoo

I have tried every conceivable way to ask Alexa to play a playlist in my Amazon Music Library and none of them work, not even the ones documented by Amazon in their "Listen to Your Music" section of the Amazon Echo Help Portal!

"Alexa, listen to my Indie Rock for Work playlist."
"Alexa, shuffle my Glitter and Grime playlist."

And I have yet to see a post from anyone confirming that it works for them: anyone?

Alexa plays Prime Music playlists OK.

As others have suggested it is possible to play playlists from your Amazon Music Library using the Alexa app on Android or iOS or via the web interface at echo.amazon.com. You can also use your Echo as a Bluetooth speaker for Google Play etc. Just say "Alexa, pair" to pair with your bluetooth device that you want to play music from.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: DebbieR on December 28, 2015, 09:53:44 pm
I say "Alexa play my library playlist Rock" (or whatever your playlist is named), all in one sentence without pauses. I've started writing down what works, been trying to learn Alexa-speak for a year now. Hope this helps!
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: BerryCat1 on December 31, 2016, 08:00:28 pm
It is important to carefully but quickly enunciate exactly what you want Alexa to do.  Alexa:  Play Amazon playlist F3.   I tried this thrice.  The first time, I did it right....  The second time, nope...  Third time...    I've waited all my life to get out of the trenches! 

I suppose that the voice training Alexa offers might be important as it likely picks up accents, lazy tongues and such.   (I myself nearly lost part of my tongue when I was a child and I have a bit of a speech impediment.)
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: nedly on January 01, 2017, 10:55:04 am
i think you need to have more than one library.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: siweriepa on January 07, 2017, 02:52:38 pm
This command from a previous reply also worked for me when several others didn't: ""Alexa play my library playlist [blah]" (no pauses)
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: reeskylr on March 19, 2017, 02:35:12 pm
This command from a previous reply also worked for me when several others didn't: ""Alexa play my library playlist [blah]" (no pauses)

Same here!  ;D  I just need to set up as many as I have in Windows Media now :)
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: mindmagic on March 20, 2017, 05:45:03 am
I just say "play (or shuffle) playlist X" and I rarely have a problem, either with my own playlists or Amazon's. Alexa does struggle to understand the names of foreign classical composers, though.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: Thunderhawk on September 09, 2017, 09:04:19 am
Dude! I feel your pain and have exhausted all options as well. Its not an issue of saying it right. My theory is that it has to do with either the amount of songs or the content/music/albums in the playlist. I noticed 2 difference in the playlist alexa connot find/see, from the other 5 she can, in my account.
1. Higher number of songs
2. When clicking on the three dots next to the playlist, i do not get the option to Share it
That leads me to believe their is some kind of restriction/rule preventing it from being seen by echo devices and shared with others. There may be music in it that requires a higher subscription.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: HippoGoose on October 13, 2017, 11:58:52 am
I was having the exact same issue.  Maybe this will help...
Within the app, in the playlist, you should see the play button, the share icon, and the three dots.
If you don't see the share icon, the list isn't in the Amazon cloud (not only do ALL the songs have to be in the cloud, the list itself needs to be uploaded, once all the songs are in the cloud, upload of the list takes 2 seconds at most).
Clicking the three dots, if you select upload, do you get an error message?
If so, look through all your songs, make sure every one of them is "Available Offline and in the Cloud" - it shows as a little computer screen icon with a check-mark on it.
If one song is not uploaded and giving you issues, try to slightly change the metadata (right click on song), and retry the upload to cloud option for the song.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: davelebarr on November 29, 2017, 10:53:24 am
I had this problem. 'I can't find the playlist Daves Christmas in your music library'.

But I found if I ask Alexa: 'Alexa play Daves Christmas playlist from my music library' it works fine.

I'm sure last year I didn't have to include 'from my music library' but hey it works now...

We have added Spotify this year suspect that may be related to this. When Alexa starts getting a bit hissy I find adding 'from Spotify' on the end of a request usually does the trick.

For technology that boast about its learning capability it's a bit duff it can't handle playing the same songs and playlists I play all the time without very specific instructions.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: asianrocker on November 29, 2017, 11:36:24 am


For technology that boast about its learning capability it's a bit duff it can't handle playing the same songs and playlists I play all the time without very specific instructions.

Or you just don't know the proper command.  :P Paying for subscription to music apps is against my religion so I just listen to tunein and deal with the ads. There is also a certain 80s station I want to listen to.

Found out by accident. If I just say - Alexa, play - it will play 'the last tunein you listened to'.

I would assume it will also work with 'the last playlist you listened to'. Or whatever you last listened. Audiobook, podcast, etc.

Wanna give it a try?

In all honesty, most of the problems I read here in this forum are human error, not the AI error.  :-X
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: sevi on December 26, 2017, 11:45:17 am
try saying "play MY playlist elbow" think it works
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: Zanussi on May 23, 2018, 03:58:29 pm
I know this is an old thread but having spent a frustrating evening with the subject we found that if you name your libraries something simple like "Mike" Alexa struggles, use a word or several words with multiple syllables. "Spitfire" worked great, "Spitfire Sal" was interpreted as "Spitfire Song" and failed. Changed Mike to Zanussi and no probs.
Title: Re: Playing playlists from 'My Amazon Library' Playlist
Post by: Brocken86 on January 05, 2019, 06:39:25 am
I had this issue and spent the last hour going through it... Finally finally solved it!!

I logged into Amazon music and it kept taking me to .com instead of .co.uk

Fine I thought. Then I created the playlist and tried to add a song to it and unlimited music kept coming up. Fine, I'll active the 30 free days and see if it's a subscription issue. But that failed to activate cause my county was miss matched. Found the setting to change my account over to the UK!! Did that, accepted the terms. Told Alexa to add to my playlist. Freaking worked.... Asked Alexa to play my playlist... Worked.!! It's a miss match of your Amazon account and music account for country!! Wtf