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When you ask to play a named track, e.g. "Alexa, play the song
Cloudburst Flight" (by Tangerine Dream), the skill first searches for
all matches across your entire library. All variants with the same
base-title 'disappear' into a single queued variant that represents them
all. This is not always a great solution because sometimes we have track
variants which are in reality quite different but which share the same
base-title so there's no way of knowing based just on the tags.
For example. I get told that I have 2 variants of it, namely "Cloudburst
Flight" and "Cloudburst Flight 2008" and both of these queue for
playback. The oldest track year-wise with the shortest name will always
queue to play first, so in this case the version from the album Force
Majeure. However, if you look at the above (new) screenshot from an Echo
Show, I actually have 8 songs all called Cloudburst Flight with no
further title qualifiers like (2003) or (Live) or (Extended) or
whatever. The version from the album Cruise to the Edge is actually a
live version and quite different, but the skill does not 'know' that.
There was always the option to specify a particular album name when
asking for the song (Alexa, play the song Cloudburst Flight from the
album Cruise to the Edge). New is that we have a second option namely,
the above screenshot will appear on Echo Show devices to *visualize all
variants of the track* and I have a few seconds to *tap one of the album
covers* if I want to play that variant instead of the 'calculated'
version. Saves having to specify fully at the outset.
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Also new is that the Help screen contains 3 new *buttons *which can be
used to open the Show's browser to the A-Z command reference page, to
the troubleshooting section of the setup documentation ('Solve'), or to
play a Vimeo video with many examples of using the skill ('Demo').
Incidentally, in the coming days, that video will get a refresh to
reflect all the recent changes around look-and-feel and the new touch
controls.
Enjoy !
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