[TV] If you are an Amazon Alexa user

[Coldeanseagull]

Amazon echo only works with a premium spotify account, so you need to pay.

Edit. They were doing 99p for three months but I think that has ended. May be doing another deal though.

Ah, yes, of course. Forgot about that as I used my daughters account before I had prime.
Sorry Gem if I was misleading

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

OH, so is the alexa useless unless I have some form of subscription music service?

Depends what you want. As others have said, there is a whole wide world of internet radio out there you can pick up through Alexa. I bought one for Mrs DCH and she uses it for Amazon Music (£3.99 a month), as a radio but also found her playing deal or no deal with Alexa while she was doing the washing up (the wife was washing up, Alexa isn't that good yet) and also uses Alexa as a kitchen tool for things like weight conversion or as a timer.

 

[Easy 10]

BG famously uses it primarily as an egg timer. A £90 egg timer.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Depends what you want. As others have said, there is a whole wide world of internet radio out there you can pick up through Alexa. I bought one for Mrs DCH and she uses it for Amazon Music (£3.99 a month), as a radio but also found her playing deal or no deal with Alexa while she was doing the washing up (the wife was washing up, Alexa isn't that good yet) and also uses Alexa as a kitchen tool for things like weight conversion or as a timer.

Your wife does the " washing up"? Get her a dish washer you tight fisted sod....

 

[Bold Seagull]

You can upload your own music to Amazon cloud through your PC or Mac, then you can stream your own music to Echo.

Echo will also work with other streaming music services like Spotify, or will play radio stations from Tunein, or station playlists.

OH, so is the alexa useless unless I have some form of subscription music service?

Save me typing the same answer again...

 

[RyFish]

You can upload your own music to Amazon cloud through your PC or Mac, then you can stream your own music to Echo.

I thought that was coming to an end soon(ish).
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/amazon-music-ends-mp3-upload-support-will-end-music-storage-service-in-2019/

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Your wife does the " washing up"? Get her a dish washer you tight fisted sod....

Why do brides wear white? So they match all of the other domestic appliances.

 

[rocker959]

Alexa for lazy ******** .

 

[Goldstone1976]

Alexa for lazy ******** .

Yep.

Like cars, trains, planes, phones, computers, farmers, butchers, supermarkets, clothes manufacturers, lawnmowers...

I don’t own one due to not wanting a spy in the house. “But they don’t record anything you say”, you say? Well, I don’t know about that.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Yep.

Like cars, trains, planes, phones, computers, farmers, butchers, supermarkets, clothes manufacturers, lawnmowers...

I don’t own one due to not wanting a spy in the house. “But they don’t record anything you say”, you say? Well, I don’t know about that.

Do you use a phone with voice recognition? Siri or Google Assistant?

 

[Pavilionaire]

I gave my wife an Alexa for her birthday this week. It presently sits there on the kitchen breakfast counter and a good game we've devised while we all wait for my wife to cook meals for us is to see who can be the first to make Alexa say a particular word.

e.g - If the word is "dog" she won't comprehend what has four legs and goes "woof" but she will know "what type of animal is a dachshund" (Alexa, not my wife).

 

[Goldstone1976]

Do you use a phone with voice recognition? Siri or Google Assistant?

Yep, but disabled Siri with a hack from one of the software guys at work.

 

[Easy 10]

I gave my wife an Alexa for her birthday this week. It presently sits there on the kitchen breakfast counter and a good game we've devised while we all wait for my wife to cook meals for us is to see who can be the first to make Alexa say a particular word.

e.g - If the word is "dog" she won't comprehend what has four legs and goes "woof" but she will know "what type of animal is a dachshund" (Alexa, not my wife).

The winter nights must just fly by.

 

[Pavilionaire]

The winter nights must just fly by.

Have you got kids? It's better than listening to them argue.

 

[Easy 10]

Have you got kids? It's better than listening to them argue.

True enough.

I'm currently playing Question of the Day. Just mince into the kitchen and say "Alexa...what is the question of the day ?" She will then give you a challenging and oft thought-provoking multiple choice question (4 possible answers). Get it right and you'll get a bonus question. Get it wrong, and that's it till tomorrow. There's points up for grabs.

She keeps score and EVERYTHING.

 

[brightn'ove]

Yep, but disabled Siri with a hack from one of the software guys at work.

You mean the 'off' switch in the settings?

 

[Pavilionaire]

True enough.

I'm currently playing Question of the Day. Just mince into the kitchen and say "Alexa...what is the question of the day ?" She will then give you a challenging and oft thought-provoking multiple choice question (4 possible answers). Get it right and you'll get a bonus question. Get it wrong, and that's it till tomorrow. There's points up for grabs.

She keeps score and EVERYTHING.

I'll try playing that over the short summer nights.

 

[Goldstone1976]

You mean the 'off' switch in the settings?

That too, of course.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

I got the Echo for a Christmas present and I think the sound quality is very good for listening to listening to Spotify but otherwise found it quite dissapointing. Anymore suggestions on how I can enjoy it more?

 

[pearl]

True enough.

I'm currently playing Question of the Day. Just mince into the kitchen and say "Alexa...what is the question of the day ?" She will then give you a challenging and oft thought-provoking multiple choice question (4 possible answers). Get it right and you'll get a bonus question. Get it wrong, and that's it till tomorrow. There's points up for grabs.

She keeps score and EVERYTHING.

what if you think you're right and Alexa says you're wrong?

Do you get some sort of reward at the end like a little drawer opens containing a monkey nut or something?