mecouc wrote: > Followers of the thread know I don't currently have a physical Alexa,. > so can't subscribe yet. I don't have the auto-update working properly > yest, but when I update manually I can try out voice commands. > > I'm about (maybe) to rip 2-300 classical CDs and tag them for my mother > to play.The only free voice command I've found to test is "List albums > by xxxx". > > If I tick the box in LMS to include composers in artists, I think the > plugin searches the combined (artists+composers) list, but then tries to > look up albums using only the artist tag, and so can't find any: > > "List albums by Franz Joseph Haydn" > Alexa: You do have works by Franz Joseph Haydn but i can't find any > albums > > Might this be changed so you can find albums by composer? I'm assuming > it's a fair amount of work to fill a niche demand, and probably won't > change? > > This skill/plugin is great, but I can see that getting Alexa to > understand names for classical albums is going to be a struggle. "CPE > Bach" is not understood at all by Alexa (seabird, seapen, asbo), though > "JS Bach" is, as though Alexa has been primed for that one.
I'll take a look at whether this is a minor change or something bigger. If the search returns it and I was just filtering it away then it will be easy. If the search does not include composer results it will be a different matter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
