To rearrange the order of songs, you’ll need to add track numbers to the beginning of your file names in each folder.)Ģ. (Note: My Pod only plays songs in alphabetical order. Create a folder in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon Drive, then share the folder to create a link that you can copy. Users with extensive collections should strongly consider Plex or My Media instead, but My Pod can work for playing a small number of songs in a pinch:ġ. The free version is quite limited, though-you can only store a maximum of 10 tracks-and you must pay $3 per month or $35.50 per year for unlimited links. This website lets you drop in a link to any folder on Dropbox, Google Drive, or Amazon Drive, then play the songs from that folder with a voice command. It also has some of the same restrictions: Whole-home streaming isn’t supported, and you must use specific “Ask My Media…” syntax to start listening.īut My Media does have some advantages: It can index playlists from iTunes and play music by genre, and it also offers a workaround (albeit a somewhat clunky one) for multi-room music playback.įor a quick-and-dirty way to play individual songs or playlists through Alexa, check out My Pod. My Media is similar to Plex, in that it requires setting up a media server device for streaming your music files to the Echo. You can also say “Next track,” “Previous track,” “Pause,” “Play,” and “Stop” without having to say “ask Plex” first. ”Ask Plex to throw down some phat beats.” (Seriously, it works.).”Tell Plex to play the album ” (This tends to only work if you don’t say the artist’s name as well.).Plex’s support page has a list of voice commands you can use, but here are some useful ones: Am on a 1 month trial with tidal now and they do have something of a recommendations engine now which doesn't appear to be too bad.Now, you can use Plex to play your music collection on the Amazon Echo. Im tempted to switch to Tidal streaming just because of that, as you can stream Tidal through UAPP and playback will be bit perfect (yes even with lossy codecs it should still be better).
And that's really what I'm looking for, as up sampling can create artifacts.
To prevent that you need something like UAPP with its own usb driver implementation. The issue is that when playing through the Android system, everything gets up sampled to 48khz first and then gets passed to the DAC I believe. And I can do that right now without problem. Yes, to be clear, you can at anytime have spotify play through a connected USB dac (though it depends on your Android implementation, Samsung phones do it without issue).
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