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Nice little trick to improve playing Spotify on Echo Dot

  • 10-12-2017 08:39PM
    #1
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,407 ✭✭✭✭


    I have 2 Echo Dots, one in the bedroom and one downstairs in the living room.

    One thing I hate about music playback is that Alexa always responds "Playing blah blah blah on Spotify" when you ask to "play blah blah blah".

    Here's a nice workaround where you can get Alexa to play music seamlessly without interrupting with a confirmation message.


    - Living room echo connected to speaker via 3.5mm cable (so can only output music when speaker turned on)

    - Bedroom echo connects to various Bluetooth speakers around the house.

    - Connect the two of them via the App settings and you can control one Echo from the other.

    - Turn off power in living room speaker, but leave Echo on (as the dumb terminal)

    - Bring a Bluetooth speaker into Living Room and connect to bedroom Echo

    - Say "Alexa play blah blah blah in Bedroom" ... music starts playing.

    - Say "Alexa play something else in Bedroom" and next song starts, without pausing the first song.


    So smooth.


    Incidentally, blah blah blah is the best song I've ever heard.


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