CommodoreAmiga
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The more I (try to) use Alexa, the more frustrated I become. How the heck do you use Alexa to control Spotify music in the R1T?
I asked Alexa to play a song. It says I need to pay for an Amazon Music subscription. No.
I asked Alexa to play a song "on spotify". It says I need to enable the Spotify Skill in the Alexa App. There doesn't appear to be any way to do that in the R1T. Hoping this is just an "account-level" integration, I downloaded the Alexa app on my phone, and added the Spotify Skill, including linking my Amazon and Spotify accounts. I even set the "default" music service in the Alexa app to Spotify.
I again asked Alexa to play a song. It said it can't play that specific song, but it'll create a station of similar songs -- not what I wanted -- and the logo in the infotainment source changed from Spotify to Amazon Music. It appears this really did play through Amazon Music, too, as the song it played isn't in my Spotify history... Also, if I manually search for the song via the Spotify interface in the R1T it DOES find the song and lets me play it.
Is there really no way to use voice control to access the Spotify library? The touch interface in the R1T is decent when I'm parked, but it's unsafe to use while driving. In my other vehicles I've been able to use voice control to pick songs/artists...
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this really not a feature in the R1T?
(P.S. I'd actually like to use Apple Music, but of course that isn't even an option. I'm a bit annoyed that Spotify is the only integrated option and even then the integration is half-baked)
I asked Alexa to play a song. It says I need to pay for an Amazon Music subscription. No.
I asked Alexa to play a song "on spotify". It says I need to enable the Spotify Skill in the Alexa App. There doesn't appear to be any way to do that in the R1T. Hoping this is just an "account-level" integration, I downloaded the Alexa app on my phone, and added the Spotify Skill, including linking my Amazon and Spotify accounts. I even set the "default" music service in the Alexa app to Spotify.
I again asked Alexa to play a song. It said it can't play that specific song, but it'll create a station of similar songs -- not what I wanted -- and the logo in the infotainment source changed from Spotify to Amazon Music. It appears this really did play through Amazon Music, too, as the song it played isn't in my Spotify history... Also, if I manually search for the song via the Spotify interface in the R1T it DOES find the song and lets me play it.
Is there really no way to use voice control to access the Spotify library? The touch interface in the R1T is decent when I'm parked, but it's unsafe to use while driving. In my other vehicles I've been able to use voice control to pick songs/artists...
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this really not a feature in the R1T?
(P.S. I'd actually like to use Apple Music, but of course that isn't even an option. I'm a bit annoyed that Spotify is the only integrated option and even then the integration is half-baked)
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