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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
What music source are you using on your Echo? Amazon Music? I have it set to use Apple Music and it's fine at picking songs for the most part. You can even be pretty vague for example asking to "play that sandwich song from Frozen" will correctly get Love is an Open Door. A lot of my music listening is via. Echo so if I had a bunch of Homepods instead I could see switching although I already pay less since I'm on the student plan.
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No I use Alexa with the stripped down free version of Amazon Music which comes with my Prime subscription. I'm not a huge music listener so I don't use the full subscription packages, although I’ve had both Apple and Amazon trial runs in the past. I do like Apple Music better. But as far as asking Alexa to play specific song editions via Amazon Music, well it is not a pleasant experience. Nor is asking Alexa to do much of anything. If you know/remember the precise wording needed and you set up the scenes, routines, etc. perfectly, then she works fine. But the average person is not going to get all that correct very often. Siri is probably better with AI as far as figuring out what you want done, but Alexa requires more of a specific formulaic approach. For Alexa, AI means Artificial Ignorance. Add to that the fact that the Alexa programmers are constantly messing about with the code, and quite often that makes her even worse.
I recently had a free 3-month with Apple Music and using the app on my iPhone or iPad was easy and terrific. Very easy to browse through the various options available for a song and visually select the one I wanted rather than playing the "life is like a box of chocolates" game with Alexa.