[latepaul]

Sorry for not following up on this straight away and thanks for the response:

Originally Posted by kansaskyle

Try saying "Play [name of book] on Audible"
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Try saying "Play [name of podcast] on Spotify"

Yeah both of these are what I was doing already. It just doesn't always seem to recognise it. I can get it to sometimes recognise books from Audible. I haven't tried podcasts on Spotify for a while. I can tell you that "Play [name of podcast] on Spotify" was getting a music track or artist with a similar name.

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.

Thanks for this, I didn't know you could check what Alexa heard.

Still getting the issue with Spotify randomly resuming after it's been playing and then switched off. For example I started playing a playlist last night, set a sleep timer - which worked but then it woke me up an hour or so later by resuming the playlist.

I can't find a Spotify Action in the home page of the Alexa app but then I started playing it from the Spotify phone app. I did that because I thought it might resolve the problem.

I am using it more than I thought I would. I use it every day for an alarm and to get the news and weather. It just feels like it's almost there but not quite with some features and so when they don't work it's frustrating.

BTW is it possible to set an alarm that plays music or the radio?