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Originally Posted by Conan46
My Alexa devices have ruined me for using the server it is so easy to call up music. But you are right, Alexa is a challenge for some bands/artists. Sometimes you have to do weird pronunciations for her to understand. I almost gave up asking her to play music from the Classic Christian Rock band "Petra". Then one day just for the heck of it I asked her to play "Peeetra" and she got it with the weird pronunciation. Otherwise she played some foreign language radio station.
Loved my Clip. It is in a drawer now but still works. I think it was the only mp3 player I had that played ogg format, and much of my music is ripped to that format.
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My Alexa has ruined me for actually getting up to turn a light on or off.
I do use her for Pandora and TuneIn a lot, although I've yet to figure out how she wants "Miled Music" (mee-led) pronounced for any of the MM stations on TuneIn. Mild, mee-led, mill-ed, milled... nothing works. I usually end up opening the app or web interface and launching them from there. She's really good with all my Pandora stations, though. And there's something highly entertaining about exuberantly exclaiming, "Alexa! Thumbs up!"
But to be fair, there is a lot of stuff in my Exotica and Latinesque Lounge genres that I don't even know the correct pronunciation for.
My Clip+ has gotten a lot more use lately since I started using the treadmill. With a 64GB card and Rockbox, it holds just over half my collection, so it's also good for traveling and when I'm in Florida out on the boat. I just plug it into the line-in on the radio we installed last year , seal it in a baggie for protection, and subject everyone to my taste in music.