# Plex for Alexa **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** release-announcements, alexa, voice-control\ **Created:** [February 2, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323 "2017-02-02T23:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/21 "2018-09-11T19:12:15Z")
FIXED - fixed a case where a small number of users were unable to play music ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/22 "2018-11-26T21:19:52Z")
FIXED - Allow relay connections to be used if no other remote connections are available ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/23 "2018-12-07T14:20:11Z")
FIXED: - Include new remote control parameters. Improves compatibility with new Roku player and Plex Web - Fix a case where resuming media could say your server was offline ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/24 "2019-02-21T13:26:21Z")
NEW - Support for German - Improved support for filtering media by artists and albums (e.g. `Alexa, Ask Plex to play the album Night at the Opera by Queen`) - Improved search algorithm to more accurately match titles to your media FIXED - Increase timeout when connection testing servers ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/25 "2019-03-11T14:39:16Z")
NEW: - Server and video player preferences are now remembered on a per-device basis rather than at the account level. Have an echo in more than one room? Now you can set each to a different Plex player when flinging video content. - Music queues now live at the device level rather than the account level. You can listen to your favorite album in your office while a family member or roommate listens to a Library Radio in the kitchen. - Performance improvements ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/26 "2019-03-13T16:48:02Z")
FIXED: - Fixed a case where the skill could respond with an error if a default server didn’t exist for a given device - Fixed a case where an offline server would get set as the default ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/27 "2019-06-03T17:25:44Z")
NEW - Add support for Add to Library Tidal content (requires Plex Media Server 1.15.8 or later) FIXES - Default server could be incorrectly set resulting in error responses while using the skill - Remote control on Android TV could fail silently ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/28 "2019-06-10T14:35:36Z")
FIXES - In certain cases playback would fail between songs due to untested server connections - Fixed a case where a bad cache would cause a sporadic generic error response ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/29 "2019-06-27T13:05:59Z")
This release is the first set of changes to broaden and improve music playback support on 3rd party Alexa devices. More information available in this post: [Improved 3rd Party Device Playback Support](https://forums.plex.tv/t/improved-3rd-party-device-playback-support/427290) NEW - Added playback support for [Alexa Connected Speaker](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/overview-connected-speakers.html) devices (such as Sonos One and Bose Home 500) - Improved transcoding support for 3p devices FIXES - Certain 3p devices were truncating http request parameters causing playback to never work - In some cases `/timeline` wasn’t sending to PMS for 3p devices ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/30 "2019-07-29T18:12:57Z")
FIXES - When flinging content to remote players Alexa would respond with an error response even when flinging was successful ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/31 "2019-08-07T12:42:44Z")
NEW: - Streaming music from a recent Plex Media Server will now be much more robust. We’ve re-written the core connection code to handle more challenging network scenarios that could previously have resulted in no media playback whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/32 "2019-08-09T18:48:17Z")
FIXES - Fixed a case where resuming media could result in an error response - Devices without a video player were not responding with the appropriate error message when video playback was attempted ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/33 "2020-06-09T17:54:35Z")
FIXES: - Fixed a case where a corrupted default player preference could cause an error response - Improved caching heuristics for PMS connections to reduce Alexa response latency - Switched the audio playback engine to use adhoc PMS transcodes to reduce time-to-playback latency ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/34 "2020-06-11T20:06:53Z")
FIXES: - Fixed a case where missing session data could cause the skill to return an error response - Improved caching of the current queue for music playback to reduce latency when moving through the queue - Fixed a case where the pre-buffered next track would be thrown away if a user manually requested the next track causing unnecessary latency - In some scenarios Alexa would return a response that contained missing metadata ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/35 "2021-05-05T15:47:09Z")
NEW: - FLAC support! Direct Play for First Party Echo devices and Direct Stream support on Sonos and Bose devices FIXES: - On some devices moving through the queue with `next` or `previous` could cause playback to fail ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/36 "2021-05-25T20:35:10Z")
FIXES: - Stripped loudness tags from streams. Echo devices weren’t using them and they were causing the Alexa player on Sonos devices to occasionally fail in strange ways. ---
**Author:** ![vanstinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/vanstinator/32/80946_2.png) [@vanstinator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vanstinator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323/37 "2021-07-16T14:03:53Z")
FIXES: - On some newer versions of PMS fetching the play queue would fail and Alexa would only play a single track [Previous page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-alexa/178323.md?page=1)