StreamFavorite
Streams a specified item from your LMS favorites, using one of 4 approaches to specify the value of {Favorite}:
- [NAME] 'Stream favorite "Jazz FM"' → looks for a (fuzzy) match by name.
- [NUMBER] 'Stream favorite number 6' / 'Stream my sixth favorite' → streams a favorite from any hierarchical level, based on its position in the overall flattened hierarchy. Useful if the favorite-name is long/unwieldy or Alexa regularly misunderstands it.
- [ITEM] 'Stream favorite: folder "Podcasts", item 4' → streams a favorite within a named folder, denoted by the favorite's numbered position within that folder. Useful for targeting e.g. episodes by number when you cannot remember names.
- [DOT] 'Stream favorite 5 dot 1 dot 6' → streams favorites based on their folder nesting/hierarchy level as displayed in the default LMS skin.
See also: 'ListFavorites' command.
Touchscreen buttons for prev/next/pause appear on Echos with displays when the screen is tapped. The skill's invocation name can be omitted for transport commands such as play/pause/stop/next/previous/startover while streaming. Audio will auto-pause the moment you say 'Alexa'.
When streaming starts, a pseudo-player with 'Alexa-XXXXX' in its name will appear in the LMS GUI — one for each currently-streaming Echo. Note that the time/track/index shown in LMS/iPeng will not match the stream due to aggressive buffering by the Echo. If you change anything from the GUI, simply say 'Alexa, resume' to re-align and clear the buffer. You cannot query now-playing data for an Echo or synchronize it, also due to buffering.
Invocation options (choose based on grammar-fit):
Alexa, [ open / start / launch ] MediaServer
Alexa, [ ask / tell ] MediaServer [ to / for ] …
stream favorite
stream a favorite
stream my favorite
stream {Favorite} favorite
stream favorite {Favorite}
stream my {Favorite} favorite
stream my favorite {Favorite}
stream the favorite {Favorite}
stream the {Favorite} favorite
stream favorite number {Favorite}
stream my favorite number {Favorite}