Display Image on 'Now Playing' screen on Echo Show
On the Echo Show audio files just show "Now playing" with a generic audio image. Should be able to customize the track name and album artwork that is displayed while the audio is being played when triggered by a custom skill.
Perhaps this could work as additional parameters with the AudioPlayer directive or embedded in the mp3 files themselves.
Steven Hansen
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Hello everyone,
Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following pages for more information:
AudioPlayer on Echo Show and Echo Spot: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/audioplayer-interface-reference.html#audioplayer-display-device
Guidelines for Images for Echo Show and Echo Spot: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/audioplayer-interface-reference.html#images
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Kristian Snelling
commented
Further to my last. When are FLAC files going to be supported - linked because of the TAG question previously only.
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Kristian Snelling
commented
Surely this would be easy for Amazon to allow, after all, they allow it for their own My Music > Music Unlimited services. In addition this is also allowed by the Spotify integration. Would it be possible to give some timescale when this would be looked at please? Thanks - enjoying Alexa :-)
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Edward Stewart
commented
Please add this functionality and see additional comments on this thread - there are lots of developers wanting this functionality: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/81730/how-to-display-image-on-now-playing-screen-on-echo.html
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Anthony M.
commented
When you send an audio skill to the Echo Show the card is displayed for a short time (2-3 seconds) then the screen moves to the Now Playing screen where the album image is a the default "Play Arrow" icon and only says now playing. I would like to persist the Image that is passed in the Card and the Title of the Episode that is playing to give visual indication which episode of the podcast is being played.