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ncollingridge
Location: Glorious rural Hertfordshire, UK Gender:
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Nov 24, 2018 - 12:02am |
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thegingerman wrote: So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts?
Agree about the boominess. You have to take the bass down a bit using the equaliser to make it sound OK, but when you do it sounds pretty excellent. Personally I have bass at -2, mid at -3 and treble at +2 and that suits me. If you don’t like much bass then -3 might be good and is probably more “neutral”. The easiest wayto adjust this is to just tell Alexa what you want it set to, such as “Alexa set bass to minus three” and so on. If you use the app you just set one of the set and that adjusts all of them.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Nov 22, 2018 - 5:55am |
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jarro wrote:No, adding the word skill is a way to force a skill to launch on a speaker, when it is confused and is launching an app on a fire tv instead. Pretty sure the 2.1 system relies on the multi room feature, which Amazon has only enabled for a handful of skills. thegingerman wrote:So are you saying if you say " play the radio paradise skill " the skill works with the 2.1 sub system? ok yes the multi room will only play RP on tune-in which is fine, nice having the whole house, deck, garage blasting the same synced tunes. I was disappointed the skill wasn't working on the 2.1 system and packed it up and sent it back. It was a sexy addition to my kitchen. Hopefully the skill gods get it going.
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jarro
Location: #guad Gender:
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Nov 20, 2018 - 1:27pm |
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No, adding the word skill is a way to force a skill to launch on a speaker, when it is confused and is launching an app on a fire tv instead. Pretty sure the 2.1 system relies on the multi room feature, which Amazon has only enabled for a handful of skills. thegingerman wrote:So are you saying if you say " play the radio paradise skill " the skill works with the 2.1 sub system?
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Nov 20, 2018 - 11:02am |
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So are you saying if you say " play the radio paradise skill " the skill works with the 2.1 sub system?
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gryhnd
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Nov 12, 2018 - 9:40am |
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gryhnd wrote:Ah! That could be it! Will check that out, thank you!
jarro wrote: I ran into this, try " play radio paradise skill " As for launching the app on fire tv, that happens if your echo is linked to your fire tv. If you never use it to control your tv you can unlink it from the alexa app. I also got the same error any time I tried launching the app on the tv. gryhnd wrote:Hey there! We have two Echo Dots and 2 FireTV sticks. RP skill is enabled for the Dots, and the RP app loaded onto both FireTVs Lately (past 2-3 months), more often than not when I ask a Dot to play RP, Alexa responds with "Getting Radio Paradise from FireTV", followed up with an error message and to make sure my FireTV is plugged in, blah blah blah. No idea why she's trying to fetch it from the FTv rather than using the skill (and the one she tries to fetch it from is never powered off anyway). I end up having to play from TuneIn instead. Anyone else? Thoughts? Thanks! Meant to circle back earlier, but @jarro was spot on with his diagnosis. We've not had the problem again since.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 19, 2018 - 5:17am |
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jarro wrote: As far as I know this relies on something not publicly available yet. I think it's limited to the following skills. Amazon Music, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify thegingerman wrote: did you get this resolved? i have the complete 2.1 system and it wont play stereo in the RP skill. it just plays out of 1 speaker. amazon told me skills are not supported for stereo setup. Yup, after frustrating dialog with amazon tech, packed up the system and sent it back.
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jarro
Location: #guad Gender:
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Oct 16, 2018 - 3:59pm |
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As far as I know this relies on something not publicly available yet. I think it's limited to the following skills. Amazon Music, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify thegingerman wrote: did you get this resolved? i have the complete 2.1 system and it wont play stereo in the RP skill. it just plays out of 1 speaker. amazon told me skills are not supported for stereo setup.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 1:46pm |
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ncollingridge wrote:I have just installed a pair of new Echos (part of the bundle with a sub that isn’t released yet) as a multi room pair (hopefully to become a 2.1 set when the firmware is updated) but when I try to use the RP skill I get the reply “Sorry I am having trouble accessing the Radio Paradise skill right now”. Is this an incompatibility with the latest Echo firmware (613509320) or with the multi room pair?
did you get this resolved? i have the complete 2.1 system and it wont play stereo in the RP skill. it just plays out of 1 speaker. amazon told me skills are not supported for stereo setup.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 1:41pm |
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thegingerman wrote: it sounds great on tune-in (no idea of bit-rate) but i would assume the RP skill wound be awesome and have more options. I know the skill allows bit-rate adjustments
I guess this new sub 2.1 Amazon Echo system doesn't support amazon "skills" including the RP skill (info from amazon). i'm totally bumbed
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 9:50am |
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Proclivities wrote: thegingerman wrote:Proclivities wrote: thegingerman wrote:So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts? There are ways to set up "multi-room groups" through the "Audio Groups" or Smart Home options (I did it once but forgot how; IIRC it was pretty easy), so each speaker will play the same signal. I don't think there is yet a way to do discrete stereo pairing with Echo speakers like some other speakers can. *edit: Apparently there will soon be a way to do stereo pairing. The new sub allows 2.1 Stereo, but the RP skill doesn't work with 2.1. It will only play on 1 Echo speaker. Oops. Now that I re-read your initial post I realized that you already had stereo set up. I must've just concentrated on the last sentence. it sounds great on tune-in (no idea of bit-rate) but i would assume the RP skill wound be awesome and have more options. I know the skill allows bit-rate adjustments
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 9:20am |
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thegingerman wrote:Proclivities wrote: thegingerman wrote:So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts? There are ways to set up "multi-room groups" through the "Audio Groups" or Smart Home options (I did it once but forgot how; IIRC it was pretty easy), so each speaker will play the same signal. I don't think there is yet a way to do discrete stereo pairing with Echo speakers like some other speakers can. *edit: Apparently there will soon be a way to do stereo pairing. The new sub allows 2.1 Stereo, but the RP skill doesn't work with 2.1. It will only play on 1 Echo speaker. Oops. Now that I re-read your initial post I realized that you already had stereo set up. I must've just concentrated on the last sentence.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 9:09am |
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Proclivities wrote: thegingerman wrote:So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts? There are ways to set up "multi-room groups" through the "Audio Groups" or Smart Home options (I did it once but forgot how; IIRC it was pretty easy), so each speaker will play the same signal. I don't think there is yet a way to do discrete stereo pairing with Echo speakers like some other speakers can. *edit: Apparently there will soon be a way to do stereo pairing. The new sub allows 2.1 Stereo, but the RP skill doesn't work with 2.1. It will only play on 1 Echo speaker.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 8:48am |
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thegingerman wrote:So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts?
There are ways to set up "multi-room groups" through the "Audio Groups" or Smart Home options (I did it once but forgot how; IIRC it was pretty easy), so each speaker will play the same signal. I don't think there is yet a way to do discrete stereo pairing with Echo speakers like some other speakers can. *edit: Apparently there will soon be a way to do stereo pairing.
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thegingerman
Location: Tolland CT USA Gender:
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Oct 15, 2018 - 8:02am |
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So i just received and installed the Echo Sub and new Echos for stereo sound. It sounds great! (sub a little boomy). I can play RP on tunein but the amazon skill will not play in stereo, only plays on 1 Echo. Any thoughts?
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gryhnd
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Oct 2, 2018 - 5:57am |
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Ah! That could be it! Will check that out, thank you!
jarro wrote: I ran into this, try " play radio paradise skill " As for launching the app on fire tv, that happens if your echo is linked to your fire tv. If you never use it to control your tv you can unlink it from the alexa app. I also got the same error any time I tried launching the app on the tv. gryhnd wrote:Hey there! We have two Echo Dots and 2 FireTV sticks. RP skill is enabled for the Dots, and the RP app loaded onto both FireTVs Lately (past 2-3 months), more often than not when I ask a Dot to play RP, Alexa responds with "Getting Radio Paradise from FireTV", followed up with an error message and to make sure my FireTV is plugged in, blah blah blah. No idea why she's trying to fetch it from the FTv rather than using the skill (and the one she tries to fetch it from is never powered off anyway). I end up having to play from TuneIn instead. Anyone else? Thoughts? Thanks!
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William
Location: Eureka! Gender:
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Sep 29, 2018 - 11:17am |
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badfunk wrote:I really wish that there was a way to find out what is playing on the Echo RP Skill. I usually just say, "Alexa, play Radio Paradise." I know that there's a sync command, but who asks their skill to sync before starting up? Besides, the sync command only works sometimes⦠And as far as I know, there is no way to search the old playlists for that one song that was played between "Green Eyed Lady" and "Love is Like Oxygen."
I guess my other wish list item would be a complete list of commands for all skills, including Radio Paradise. For those times that you want it to do something, but can't figure out the right syntax in Echo-English.
<sigh>
You have to say "Alexa, ask Radio Paradise what's playing". You can search the playlist for previously-played tracks, but in this case you had skipped ahead on the playlist, so as far as the web history was concerned, that song hadn't played yet. It was Back To Black by Amy Winehouse. We're working on a bunch of refinements on our new website, one of which will allow you to have the website display track what's playing on Alexa (that already works with our phone apps). Unfortunately, having Alexa respond to "Alexa, what's playing?" (like she does when you're playing from Prime Music) is not currently possible.
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badfunk
Location: Millinocket, Maine Gender:
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Sep 29, 2018 - 10:46am |
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I really wish that there was a way to find out what is playing on the Echo RP Skill. I usually just say, "Alexa, play Radio Paradise." I know that there's a sync command, but who asks their skill to sync before starting up? Besides, the sync command only works sometimes… And as far as I know, there is no way to search the old playlists for that one song that was played between "Green Eyed Lady" and "Love is Like Oxygen."
I guess my other wish list item would be a complete list of commands for all skills, including Radio Paradise. For those times that you want it to do something, but can't figure out the right syntax in Echo-English.
<sigh>
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 26, 2018 - 3:57pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote:How come our Echo (Alexa) keeps dropping RP?
*bump*
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jarro
Location: #guad Gender:
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Sep 25, 2018 - 8:34pm |
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I ran into this, try " play radio paradise skill " As for launching the app on fire tv, that happens if your echo is linked to your fire tv. If you never use it to control your tv you can unlink it from the alexa app. I also got the same error any time I tried launching the app on the tv. gryhnd wrote:Hey there! We have two Echo Dots and 2 FireTV sticks. RP skill is enabled for the Dots, and the RP app loaded onto both FireTVs Lately (past 2-3 months), more often than not when I ask a Dot to play RP, Alexa responds with "Getting Radio Paradise from FireTV", followed up with an error message and to make sure my FireTV is plugged in, blah blah blah. No idea why she's trying to fetch it from the FTv rather than using the skill (and the one she tries to fetch it from is never powered off anyway). I end up having to play from TuneIn instead. Anyone else? Thoughts? Thanks!
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William
Location: Eureka! Gender:
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Sep 25, 2018 - 7:16am |
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gryhnd wrote:Hey there! We have two Echo Dots and 2 FireTV sticks. RP skill is enabled for the Dots, and the RP app loaded onto both FireTVs Lately (past 2-3 months), more often than not when I ask a Dot to play RP, Alexa responds with "Getting Radio Paradise from FireTV", followed up with an error message and to make sure my FireTV is plugged in, blah blah blah. No idea why she's trying to fetch it from the FTv rather than using the skill (and the one she tries to fetch it from is never powered off anyway). I end up having to play from TuneIn instead. Anyone else? Thoughts? Thanks! We have an Echo + FireTV (plus an Alexa-equipped Sonos). Haven't run into that. You might try disabling & re-enabling the skill. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling the app on the FireTV, then disable/enable the skill. Then reinstall the app. No guarantees, but that seems like the most logical path to try.
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