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: Now, you can use Plex to play your music collection on the Amazon Echo.

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