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Originally Posted by OtinG
I have reached that point with her many times. I had asked her to find a specific podcast title which I knew from internet searches was available to Alexa via the AnyPod skill. I had just installed the AnyPod skill. She went off on telling me I had to connect to AnyPod but didn't say how. So more internet searching later I muddled through that. Then I asked her to find the podcast so I could get her to subscribe to it. She found everything but the one I was looking for and that is when she went into her fit of questions chasing after rabbits. That is, she was pursuing podcast titles totally unrelated to the one I wanted. The way the morons at Amazon have developed her, Alexa can go into constant question mode that can be extremely annoying because she speaks in long sentences and doesn't seem to listen to commands well during same. And if she is even slightly confused she again goes into a string of wordy questions. In the end I spent over 20 minutes getting her to find and subscribe to the podcast, and the podcast is only about 25 minutes long. Geez, what a useless system. Today I'm going to see if there is an online method to get AnyPod to subscribe to podcasts that circumvents Alexa.
BTW, the same procedure on my Mac or iPad takes perhaps 2 minutes tops, assuming the podcast is available for the Apple ecosystem. But since I have my new Dot gen 3 hooked up to a nice Sony stereo speaker set, I thought the podcast would sound much better than listening to it on my MacBook Pro or iPad. It does, but it takes forever to get to the point where you can listen to a specific podcast that you haven't previously had Alexa locate and subscribe to.
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I normally only use my Dots to listen to music - I have them hooked up to stereos. Today I just asked it to "play tunein radio" and it heard "play some radio". It started playing SXM fantasy sports radio which I have never listened to, but hubby does. We ended up registering the echo device he uses to his email address so I didn't have to see everything he does in the app, but it looks like the devices must still be connected.
I only say "play tunein radio" and it automatically plays whatever station was listened to last. I have had problems getting it to play the stations I want to listen to. Hubby tried multiple ways to get it to play specific stations on tunein radio because I have no patience for that crap (or anything else for that matter 😉
. I try to get it to play "the metal plague" station on tunein and it says that it can only play genre music on iHeartRadio or one of the other music apps I don't use or want. Most of the stations I listen to have the word metal so I can't get it to play any of them. If I want a different station I go into the Alexa app but I really shouldn't have to. I reported this problem when alexa devices first came out and they agreed it was a problem but they never fixed it.