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Old 04-21-2022, 12:00 PM   #4755
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I hate Alexa.

Since I have a new stereo with Bluetooth, I spent a half hour or so trying to set up my Dot to play music through the stereo speakers. Ridiculous amount of time, but the Alexa app on my Fire tablet was finding dozens of devices, none of them the right one, and the Alexa app on my phone was finding nothing at all. Finally, by starting and stopping and unplugging and replugging, voilą! Dot and stereo connected.

Which didn't mean that the music I told Alexa to play actually played through the stereo. That took another round of stopping and starting. But, OK, I got it to work, everything's copacetic. Except Alexa decided to quit playing after ten minutes or so. When I got it playing again, despite Alexa insisting it was connected, it used the Dot speaker. Rinse and repeat, and again it stops after a few songs.

I hate Alexa.
Probably a good thing Bezos's giant sex toy looking spaceship he rode up to suborbital space wasn't using Alexa for control!

In December I bought an Echo Studio and tried to get it to connect and work with my Fire TV Cube, but Alexa kept disconnecting and trashing the system. It would work a few days then quit again. Plenty of reboots took place. After a few weeks I returned the Studio while I was still within the 30 day window. I actually have more luck using Apple Music with Echos than I do Amazon Music. I finally cancelled Amazon Music and went with Apple Music instead, even though I don't own any Apple HomePods.
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