Some of these commands can be simple enough, like “Alexa, ask My Media to play songs by Carly Rae Jepsen” or “Alexa, ask My Media to play the album OK Computer.” But other commands are needlessly complex for example, asking Alexa to play a genre through My Media requires you to say “Alexa, ask My Media to play some rap music.” If you don’t include the word “some,” your command is misregistered and Alexa will try to play a song with the genre name in the title, or will error out. Unlike how Amazon’s Cloud service worked, you’re not asking Alexa to play from an Amazon account, but from your My Media server, which means you have to include “My Media: in every command. The voice commands designed by My Media aren’t bad per se, but they’re certainly difficult to remember. The second reason you might be turned off from My Media comes down to the controls. Finally, you’ll need Python 3 (the programming language) installed on your computer in order to follow the guide. You’ll need to already have a server up and running on your device that can manage to host the software needed for GeeMusic several Reddit users have reported Heroku, the famous Twitter bot client, to work for this. He also mentions that you should setup two-factor authentication on your devices in order to prevent some login issues. Leeg mentions using UNIX environments (like MacOS and Linux) to create the online server necessary to serve as a bridge between the two platforms, so if you’re working on Windows, your barrier to entry is even higher. Leeg did do an excellent job creating a readable, user-friendly how-to guide, which you can view here by scrolling to the bottom of the page. But, with Amazon’s music service becoming a much less viable option for most users, it seemed only fair that we include it here, with some basic guides on how you would want to use the platform. In fact, we considered the difficulty in setting up GeeMusic to be so high, we didn’t include it in our original guide. The GitHub-hosted version has a pretty solid guide that makes it relatively easy to start using on your own, but even so, you’re still dealing with some serious coding in order to get Google Play Music and Amazon to talk to each other. Here’s the problem with GeeMusic: it’s incredibly difficult to setup, and even if you’re familiar with some of the steps asked in the tutorial, it’s still time-consuming. Furthermore, anyone who did have music uploaded to Amazon’s cloud service had access to their library cut off after January 2019, leaving Amazon’s locker for cloud songs completely defunct. New users were accepted until January 15th, 2018, but anyone who signs up for Amazon Music currently will not be able to upload their music to the service. Unfortunately, Amazon announced at the end of 2017 that they would be discontinuing their Amazon Cloud Locker service. It allowed you to take advantage of the space provided by Amazon, and made it easy to simply ask Alexa to play your favorite songs and artists. Anyone with a massive, curated library of songs was able to pay just $24.99 a year to upload their songs to Amazon’s own cloud servers. This used to be our ideal way of playing your local music library, Apple Music subscribers aside. Playing Your Music Library Without Amazon Music Storage It’s not a perfect strategy, but it’ll work for most users asking Alexa to play specific pop songs. That said, as an Echo owner, you can probably find a good middle ground between what’s offered on Prime Music and your collection on Google Play Music through Bluetooth. Of course, unlike Music Unlimited, Prime Music gives you access to about 2 million songs, a far lower number than the 30 to 40 million songs offered by Google Play Music, Spotify, and even Amazon Music Unlimited. Let’s take a look at using your Echo’s Bluetooth with Google Play Music on your smartphone. In fact, using the Echo’s built-in Bluetooth function, you can listen to your curated library of music all while enjoying the voice-controls provided with the Echo through Alexa-or, at least, most of them. This doesn’t mean you can’t play your music from your phone or computer to your Amazon Echo. Needless to say, Google Play Music is where you’re staying, and you have no intentions of moving services anytime soon. You’ve built a full library of your songs, complete with playlists, curated your radio stations with thumbs-up and thumbs-down ratings, and gotten used to both the mobile app and the web app on desktop. If you’re a Google Play Music subscriber, you’re probably not looking to switch away from your current music subscription setup. Playing Your Music Library Without Amazon Music Storage.Transferring Your Library to Amazon Music Unlimited.Using Bluetooth to Play Music from Your Phone or Computer.
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