Thank you for Plexamp! It’s let me experience my music in new enjoyable ways. Please if I could ask if it’s possible, could it be made to cast to Amazon Echo(es)? Thanks again for the great app.
You can’t cast to Echo devices. Amazon and Google don’t get along. You’ll need to use Alexa to handle that.
YES! this. If not for anything else for the track loudness leveling in plexamp! Sick of having one song LOUD and the next quiet, and having to tell Alexea “Turn down” or “Turn Up”. My collection already has the loudness (Replay Gain) meta data imbedded in the id3 tags thanks to Foobar 2000. My XBMC server plays so well with these tags and everything is normalized, lets have the same for Alexa.
to @MovieFan.Plex: I know for a fact that it IS possible to cast to echo devices. The Spotify android app has this capability. All my echo dots, echo show, echo, echo flex, echo tap and all of my defined echo groupings show up in the Spotify app. Additionally it finds my Denon HT reciever, as well as listing my Chromecast Audio device.
The Plexamp app only shows the Chromcast Audio device.
So it looks like the Plexamp dev team needs to use the same sdk or api that spotify is using…
To be clear – I am NOT talking about Alexa voice integration. I am simply talking about being able to cast to the Amazon Echo family of smart speakers, and to see and control what is playing once it has been cast. IMO, using voice commands to control music playback is way too difficult, and often fails to achieve the desired result. For music playback, using a smartphone screen is usually faster and accurate.
Yes, it is possible for those apps that are listed as a music provider for Alexa. Please note, these are sponsored apps (i.e. $$$). This is not available for apps not listed there.
Well, this seems a bit of a lame excuse not to implement casting to the amazon set of smart speakers. MediaMonkey does this, and it is not a “sponsored” app.
If the intent of Plexamp is to be a serious contender for managing and playing music in a media library, then it should also implement this capability and not ignore it. At this point I find Plexamp not useful enough to use it due to this, and will stick with MediaMonkey…
Philip
