Streaming Soundtracks with Alexa - Need help!

Flipside · Cadet 1 Joined: May 30, 2009 Posts: 4

Hi all.
I have been listening to SS for many years and when Amazon's Alexa came out have been using that to stream via "TuneIn" with a simple command of

"Alexa, play Streaming Soundtracks radio from TuneIn"

which worked perfectly and it got better as Alexa seemed to "learn"

"Alexa, play Streaming Soundtracks from TuneIn"

unfortunately a few months ago the latter stopped working, oh well no great loss but now recently the nothing works?!

When I ask
"Alexa, play Streaming Soundtracks radio from TuneIn"

all I get is a response of "TuneIn cannot play by Genre"

Any ideas how to resolve this?
I and many of my friends would love to know how to simply command Alexa to play our favorite streaming station.

Cheers,

Flip

Flipside · Cadet 1 Joined: May 30, 2009 Posts: 4

Anyone??? Need help I tried everything Sad

molossus · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:24 am Post subject:

Probably this is a dumb idea (no experience with Alexa here) but maybe pronouncing SST's name as "Streamingsoundtracks (pause) radio" and not "Streaming (pause) Soundtracks (pause) radio" would help...
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Dragonel · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:26 pm Post subject:

Likewise no experience with Alexa or TuneIn, but a random thought .... do you have a signin/account with TuneIn and can you mark SST as a favorite?
Or can you manually select it to play once or twice first? Alexa may check favorites or recent stations first.
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jjlink · Cadet 2 Joined: Jul 26, 2007 Posts: 6

Once you get Alexa to play SST on tunein. From then on you can say "Alexa, play TuneIn, and Alexa will remember that you were playing SST last time so it continues to play it this time. This works as long as you only play SST on TuneIn and no other stations.

I will try to make an Alexa skill for SST if someone can give me a HTTPS URL that just plays SST with no interaction required. Note it must be HTTPS not just HTTP, I am guessing its for security reasons.
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Flipside · Cadet 1 Joined: May 30, 2009 Posts: 4

Wow!
That would be great thanks.

Kinnicutt · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:28 pm Post subject:

jjlink · Cadet 2 Joined: Jul 26, 2007 Posts: 6

https://tunein.com/radio/Streaming-Soundtracks-s1562/
is just the web page, Alexa would need the actual HTTPS URL for the stream its self.
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danleich · Lieutenant Joined: Apr 26, 2015 Posts: 174

if anyone would know the URL of a direct stream, I could use it as well. I was trying to get SST running on LibreELEC on my Raspi, the easisest solution i had so far would be a direct URL for a radio stream. HTML and flashplayer pages both don't work for me there. Just adding my two cents Wink

bwims · Cadet 1 Joined: Jan 31, 2020 Posts: 1

Baghira · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:27 am Post subject:

I found a way to play on Alexa without coding or ID usage. It's a bit of a detour, but works. You have to use the Alexa App on your smartphone:

goto play tunein and search for "Streaming Soundtracks" (mind the space, without i couldn't find the radio) and select play on your Echo or other connected device.

After a music pause i could restart the radio by saying (german) "Alexa, letztes Radio fortsetzen." (english translation: Alexa, continue last radio station)

Kinnicutt · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:24 pm Post subject:

Kinnicutt · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:41 pm Post subject:

In addition to playing SST via TuneIn on an Alexa Device, which you have to endure a few ads inserted by TuneIn, One can use an Alexa Echo SHOW device to play SST on the 24SevenPlayer You'll see the Album Cover and play / pause controls. And Under the right side menu A truncated Current Queue, History lists.

To set it up from the home page, from the top of the screen pull the drop down list. Select VIDEOS. Then scroll from the right to the BING-show web Icon. Select and enter this In the URL address spot.:

http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/ng-apps/web-player/24SevenPlayer.html

Then upon the page loading, select the bookmark ribbon at the top to save it. Subsequent times simply at the left, select the little "grid" where you'll see the bookmarks to load it again.

Any readers manage to get it to work this way? Smile

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