MediaServer

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This non-affiliated skill implements a myriad of 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?
What players do I have?
What's the Salon player state?
Play / Resume.
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 Off Bedroom.
Power Down everything.
Turn on shuffle.
Shuffle again.
Enable shuffle-by-album on the Kitchen player.
Enable shuffle-by-song for the Bedroom player.
Deactivate shuffle.
Enable Repeat.
Turn on repeat-playlist mode.
Enable repeat-song mode.
Deactivate repeat for the Basement player.
Discover my players.
Rename 'Touch' player 'Guestroom'.
Assume the 'Bedroom' player.
I'm within earshot of 'Kitchen'.
Forget earshot association.
Respond with shorter / normal answers.

With a monthly subscription available through in-skill purchasing, commands to play specific tracks, songs, favorites and genres are available. So too are directives for playlist manipulation, player sync/grouping, playback transfer among players, plus library-content querying. You'll also be able to stream music from LMS to your Echo device as an audio sink without resorting to Bluetooth.

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/Transporter 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 command reference detailing all the ways commands can be spoken, can be found at https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/mediaserverhelp.html