MediaServer

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This non-affiliated skill implements over 110 Logitech Media Server commands to control your Squeezebox music players. Examples:

What's playing?
What's up next?
What's the duration of this song / playlist?
List my Playlists.
What genres do I have?
Do I have the album Abacab by Genesis?
List Madonna singles in my library.
What albums have the Pink Floyd track High Hopes?
What's new in my collection?
List the favourites in folder 'Audiobooks'.
What's the Salon player state?
What sync groups exist?
Start Playback.
Pause.
Stop Playback.
Skip / Next Track.
Previous Track.
Goto track 12.
Skip ahead 2 minutes.
Skip back 44 seconds.
Seek directly to 17 minutes and 12 seconds.
Set the volume to 60.
Increase the volume by 10.
Decrease the volume by 25.
Mute the Livingroom player.
Unmute the Kitchen.
Turn on the Library player.
Power down the Bedroom player.
Power down everything.
Activate shuffle.
Shuffle again.
Enable shuffle-by-album on the Kitchen player.
Enable shuffle-by-song for the Bedroom player.
Deactivate shuffle.
Enable Repeat.
Activate repeat-playlist mode.
Enable repeat-song mode.
Deactivate repeat for the Basement player.
Clear the current playlist.
Enable my alarm at 7AM on the Bedroom player.
Change the 7AM alarm to 8:30AM.
Discover my players.
What players do I have?
Rename 'Bedroom 4' player 'Guestroom'.
Assume the 'Livingroom' player.
I'm within earshot of 'Kitchen' Echo.
Forget the earshot association.
I'd like shorter responses.
Respond with normal answers.
Help.


With a monthly subscription available through in-skill purchasing, commands to play specific albums, songs, favourites and genres are available. So too are directives for playlist manipulation, synchronisation groups, sleep-mode, and for playback transfer among players (FollowMe). You'll also be able to stream music from LMS to your Echo speaker so it becomes a virtual Squeezebox.

Prerequisites: To use the skill, you will need to have (1) a self-hosted instance of Logitech Media Server which *must* be remotely-accessible via https, (2) one or more hardware or software Squeezebox players, and (3) a local music library with a high standard of metadata/tags.

Linking: The skill will install without account linking, but only to facilitate onboarding so that Alexa can explain setup. To be useful, the skill *must* be account-linked in order to pick up the server details of your LMS instance.

Extensive help with setup, plus an exhaustive A-Z reference detailing all the ways commands can be spoken, can be found at https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/faq