Bring Multi-Room support to AudioPlayer API streaming
Alexa Multi Room streaming does not appear to be available for third party skills that leverage the AudioPlayer API.
Feature request is to extend support for Multi Room to the AudioPlayer interface. This could be implemented by adding a custom slot type for the multi room location and then adding an optional parameter to the Play() command to allow the destination room group to be specified.
This has 37 likes and 19 comments as of Mar 2018 on this URL but doesn't show up on this feature forum - https://forums.developer.amazon.com/idea/101848/bring-multi-room-support-to-audioplayer-api-stream.html - so posting again.
Edward Stewart
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131 comments
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Bruce I Watson
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This is a MUST HAVE for playing the media content I OWN! This can't be that hard to do and would be a win-win for all.
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Ron Jameson
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Well..if they put this in their API so the skills can benefit from it ....we will buy even more Echo studio’s all over the house. More money to Jeff to our pleasure. :)
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Nicholas Boyle
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I'd imagine this would be a game changer. It'd also be useful to have development skills with access to multi-room.
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Brian Smith
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Come on Amazon - this should be a no-brainer. You want us to have your devices throughout our homes so, surely, you can see that you need to provide this support.
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Ron Bond
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I have an extensive audio library spanning 40 years. A good portion is not available anywhere. I love the multi-room feature but find it unacceptable that I can not listen to my own collection on more than one device. All of the support sites for MyMedia, DS Audio, Plex, My Pod, JRiver, etc. are filled with frustrated audiophiles begging for this feature.
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Andrea Robinson
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We have lost the use of BBC radio on multi speakers and have been told that it will not be returned to TuneIn and so the functionality can only be reinstated by changes agreed by Amazon to the BBC Sounds Skill.
We recognise that it was a BBC decision to remove the functionality, but that the only solution now sits with Amazon and so hope that you will allow the development to proceed quickly.
Thank you
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Tommy Schmidtbauer
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Yes, please add multiroom Support... Need it for mymedia...
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Brantome
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Implementing this would resolve a lot of the criticism that the BBC and amazon got over the former’s withdrawal from Tunein for UK users, leaving them to rely on the bbc skill that can’t be used for multi room or stereo pairs
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Mel Earp
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This is a must to allow users to get the best out of their Alexa enabled devices.
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Ruben Suarez
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I hope it won't take too long to allow this
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Tommy Schmidtbauer
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Make Alexa great again! and "Bring Multi-Room support to AudioPlayer API streaming"...
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Sam Greco
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Please? There are a whole lot of us that have large music libraries with thing that we cannot get online. Anywhere. You are crippling us by not providing this simple thing.
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Mauro Tortone
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unbelievable... Amazon be open-end and give this capability to all skills
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Marc DELOR
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I can't imagine that this feature is not yet allowed....
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Brantome
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Amazon could address a lot of the perceived issues in this thread if they reinstated their music upload service. With that, I could seamlessly integrate my music that isn’t on any streaming service with Amazon Music Unlimited and exploit the full range of Alexa music requests, multi room and all. Solutions like My Media, while technically interesting, are clumsy in comparison.
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GERARD MICHAEL HUNTER
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This would be a great addition to Alexa functionality.
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John Wallace
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I was so disappointed that I couldn't play My Media on my echo and echo dot at the same time
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david herzberg
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Please support My Media for Amazon Alexa to extend support for Multi Room to the AudioPlayer interface. I have nine Echos that are grouped in two groups. I have over 700 Cds in my iTunes library. I am an Amazon Prime music subsciber - but I will not re-purchase old muisc I already own.
Come on Amazon.... This is only going to help you sell more devices and music as people find out what My Media does with your Echos and Dots. -
Mr M Churly
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Please update the Audio API to support Multi-room audio. I would like to play my media collection in all rooms. This is the main thing holding me back on investing in more Echo's
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GP
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When listening to a podcast for an hour and then entering a new room with another Alexa we're forced to start the podcast from scratch.
Please add the ability to pause, resume and transfer the current timestamp of a podcast to another Alexa so we can continue listening as we roam the house.