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Originally Posted by latepaul
What I found was that it wasn't always able to discern that what I wanted was an audiobook, even if I spoke the word "audiobook" as part of the command. It kept telling me it wasn't able to read Kindle books. I wonder if this is because I had the book as an ebook as well as in Audible? I eventually persuaded it to simply play the last thing I had been playing in Audible. Which means that I can "queue up" a book on the app and then play it on the Echo.
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Try saying "Play [name of book] on Audible"
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Originally Posted by latepaul
My podcast experience was similar. The podcast has to be in TuneIn or Spotify. If the podcast is in TuneIn I can play the latest episode via a voice command. I wasn't able to get it to play a specific episode (by co-incidence I just found a new Serial-type podcast that's on ep 8 already). With Spotify it always seem to search the music section not the podcasts. The only way I've found to get that working is to go to the app, choose the podcast, start to play it and switch the device to the Echo.
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Try saying "Play [name of podcast] on Spotify"
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Originally Posted by latepaul
The other thing with that is that I left it playing while I was in bed and then told it to stop, which it did. About half an hour later just as I was drifting off it started up again. I had to get out of bed and go to the app to stop it. Whether that's the Spotify app or the Echo software I don't know.
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Check the Home button on the Alexa app and see what Alexa heard that restarted the playback of the Spotify podcast. To do so, find the Spotify Action, click More, and it will show the "Voice Feedback" of what Alexa heard.