Amazon playlist management integration

[BigFreaky]

I mostly use the wiim app to play music on my two wiim devices.

Sometimes when listening to new songs I wanted to have a way to save them for future listening.
It will be nice to have a way to add songs to playlists on Amazon. I know I can use the amazon app, but when the music is already there, playing on the wiim app, is a handy shortcut.

Even if there is a way to simply "Like" the song and add to my likes playlist only.

Also, a minimal integration with the remote for that same purpose:
I tried some voice commands like: "Like the current song"/ "Add the current song to my like playlist" but that doesnt works.

Can voice commands be also supported for that same purpose?

 

[Brantome]

Have you tried the simpler “Alexa, thumbs up” or “Alexa, I like this song/track”, or “Alexa, add this to my xyz playlist”?

Edit: you don’t need to ask Alexa to add to a ‘my likes’ playlist as it in effect does that when you ‘like’ a track, so you can simply ask “Alexa, play my liked tracks”

 

[BigFreaky]

Alexa response: "Sorry, i didn't learn how to do that"

 

[Brantome]

Alexa response: "Sorry, i didn't learn how to do that"

To what, all those requests? Are you asking via the WiiM remote or an echo with the audio redirected to a WiiM device?

 

[BigFreaky]

To what, all those requests? Are you asking via the WiiM remote or an echo with the audio redirected to a WiiM device?

Wiim remote

 

[Brantome]

Just tried what I suggested using the WiiM remote to get my Amp to play some music, then I gave the first track the “thumbs up” and also added it to a playlist which also appears in the Amazon Music app. Here’s a attached screenshot of the Alexa voice activity log…

PS Ignore the extra middle ‘create playlist’ request.

 

[Brantome]

While this link hasn’t been updated for a while, it contains a lot of good info on Alexa music commands https://www.smartenlight.com/alexa-music-voice-commands/

 

[BigFreaky]

how did you start to play the song? When I start to play something using the wiim shortcut, and ask alexa to add to a playlist, she answers that there is no music playing. but wiim is playing the song.

 

[BigFreaky]

I started to play a song through alexa and I can manage to add the song to a playlist. So the issue is Alexa can't recognize that wiim is playing songs when they are started by the presets.

 

[Brantome]

I seem to recall similar happening with echo devices, although probably more when using audio from a skill. Might be a glitch with Alexa, or could even be a bug with WIiM. I’d raise a ticket via the settings/feedback section in the WiiM Home app and see if there’s anything WiiM can do to detect an active stream when it wasn’t initiated by voice.