I just got the Alexa skill working today for playing music from my Plex server directly on my Echo. So happy to finally have this feature working! I have a request that would really make this a killer feature for me. Much of my music collection is from South Indian artists whose names are pretty …

As I’ve said before over the years this is not something we can do. The big subscription services such as Spotify, Tidal, etc use a completely different audio player framework that allows them to support casting. We cannot use that same framework for personal media due to a number of technical limit…

Feature Request: Cast to Echo Device

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vanstinator November 5, 2018, 3:20pm 4

Unfortunately this isn’t currently possible as the Alexa Cast protocol isn’t yet widely available. If the API is opened up we’ll re-evaluate.

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Feature Request: Cast to Echo Device

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