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Originally Posted by Tarana
I've been having on and off trouble the last two weeks with audio book operation on my Echo. I tell Alexa to pause repeatedly and she just doesn't do it or does it randomly. "Stop" mostly works. What gives. It worked 99% of the time before and now it's about 60%. Suggestions? Note, this is Audible streaming , not Bluetooth from another device.
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That sounds like a server response (or lack of response) issue. I don't listen to audio books, but I do use my Taps to listen to SiriusXM a lot. Here lately I will likely have an issue at least once an hour where Alexa announces she is unable to play SiriusXM any more and stops the music. I immediately tell her to start playing it again and it works until the next time she has an issue. With all of the server connections she requires, especially if running 3rd party skills and connections, it is a frustrating experience.
A few months ago I wanted to listen to a few specific podcasts via Echo devices but gave up as it was just too frustrating to find a way to play the ones I wanted to on my Taps. I listen to them on my MacBook Pro instead.
I spent over 30 years in the high tech and software industries (not as a programmer though). To me it just seems like the newer crop of high tech folks are trying to patch together too many capabilities into their devices rather than taking the time to design said devices and systems from the ground up with these capabilities in mind. We consumers wind up with a patchwork, Frankenstein device that does nothing very well and a lot of things half a$$ed. A friend of mine from my youth used to say about himself, "I'm a jack of all trades, but a master of none." That is how I view companies these days which build devices like Echos. They try to make them do everything, but they really don't even know how to make them do any one thing as well as it should be done. The results are disastrous and little more than fuel for SNL jokes.