Alexa skill and multiple music libraries

[Divideby0]

So, because I’m a bit scared of letting another entity manage my poorly-metadata’d but nicely-folder-organized media, I hesitated to use a single music library. Instead, I have multiple, one for comedian acts I have CDs for, one for my actual music, and a third for audio-books.

Just recently, I decided to give the Alexa skill a shot, and it plugged in nicely. But it cannot seem to find any of my music in my music library. Instead, it seems to have latched onto my comedians library, offering music from artists “currently on tour” which resulted in some comedian CD I have starting up. Trying various other commands, I once got Alexa to play one of my audiobooks, but otherwise it seems to only allow me to specifically request songs from my comedians library.

I wonder if it’s at all like PlexAmp, in which you can only connect to and display one library at a time, and perhaps it chose Comedians (either because I created it first way back a year ago, or because it comes before “Music”). So is the Alexa skill smart enough to scan ALL my audio libraries, or does it utilize one library at a time? If the former, is it not working because my metadata/artist-matching is not too good? If the latter, is there a way to change the library Alexa accesses?

Also, can I change the user that Alexa accesses Plex via? I could possibly create a Home User purely for music-playing, and only allow it the library I want it to.

[Divideby0]

Ok, I found out the reason for this. It’s because I had set the library visibility to Exclude from home screen and global search. I did not want to have my music library polluting the search results when I looked for a movie, and I figured I’d never search for a song anyhow. Turns out that this prevents the Alexa skill from being able to find your audio and play it.

The reason why my Comedians library was working, was I had apparently left ITS visibility set to Exclude from home screen, but wasn’t hiding it from search.

Not sure how I managed to get an audiobook from my library working one time, but perhaps I used Alexa audiobook, not Plex, to read a book that one time. It can be pretty hard to find out which “player” is playing sometimes on a voice-activated device.