Thanks for your reply. I have also had the you have no works by message as well. So I shouldn't waste time in tweaking my Artist / Album Artist tags then but focusing on the album names?
What is the correct response to I need the name of the artist? Steve philchillbill wrote: > The issue with classical music is that there are no standardised tag > schemes for all the details so people usually invent their own. > MediaServer just works with AlbumArtist/Band, TrackArtist/Artist, Album, > Title, Genre and Year as tags. Amazon has a long list of 'known' artists > to match against when you say something to Alexa, but not for classical > artists. Alexa doesn't really 'hear' you without context. If you ask her > to tell you a lightbulb joke, she first hears joke and then matches > lightbulb against her joke categories. So there is context. Same with > music. When you ask her to play an album by XXX, from the context of > play combined with album she goes, aha, the XXX must be an artist so > let's check my known-artist list. That list is unfortunately very > unsuited to classical music. The "MediaServer can't help you with that" > is indicative of her not even recognising your artist as being in the > Amazon-curated artist category, otherwise you would have been told "you > have no works by XXX" which is a different message that I generate based > on matching against your library. > > So I'm not sure Alexa will ever bring joy to classical lovers, whether > via this skill or otherwise. I'd say your best bet is to tag your albums > so that the match can occur without needing the artist name. The skill > itself uses fuzzy matching, but it can only match against what LMS > returns and LMS unfortunately does not do fuzzy or metaphonic matching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shozzer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016
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