Contributor I

Sonos and Google Online Storage

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
November 19, 2019
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I have found a way round this issue. Firstly as you have Google Play Music I presume you also have Google Drive ( free online storage). In this drive create a folder called music, then in this folder create a folder for each artist, say Adele. then in this folder upload mp3 songs of hers you own. You cannot just upload the album it must just be the mp3s.

Then in the Amazon Alexa app go to the skills and enable Personal Jukebox, this will ask you to choose the online storage for Google. Enter user name and password and accept. Job done. Then on Sonos say ‘Alexa Tell Personal Jukebox to play Adele’ (or which ever artist folder you have created). The only issue is that Personal Jukebox shuffles the songs in the folder, but hey at least you can use you cloud storage!

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netpotsAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks for using our skill, Personal Jukebox. We really wanted to continue supporting Google Drive but changes in their API squashed that dream. Anyway - wanted to let folks know that if they say “Alexa Shuffle Off” when Personal Jukebox is running - it will then play songs in order by Artist, Album, Song. So for example if you told Personal Jukebox to play “Dark Side of the Moon” it would randomly pick songs - but if you instead say “Alexa Shuffle Off” after it starts playing you’ll get it in track order. We’ve played with the idea of making this an “option” - always play in Artist, Album, Song order if you request Personal Jukebox to remember your choice, etc.

I am using Personal Jukebox not MyPod, the above solution does not work.

Ken_Griffiths

Thanks for using our skill, Personal Jukebox. We really wanted to continue supporting Google Drive but changes in their API squashed that dream. Anyway - wanted to let folks know that if they say “Alexa Shuffle Off” when Personal Jukebox is running - it will then play songs in order by Artist, Album, Song. So for example if you told Personal Jukebox to play “Dark Side of the Moon” it would randomly pick songs - but if you instead say “Alexa Shuffle Off” after it starts playing you’ll get it in track order. We’ve played with the idea of making this an “option” - always play in Artist, Album, Song order if you request Personal Jukebox to remember your choice, etc.

I am using Personal Jukebox not MyPod, the above solution does not work.

Perhaps try this then, but see my note below…

"Alexa, turn off shuffle"

Oddly the option is only available when music is playing. If you try to turn shuffle on or off without music playing Alexa will explain that she can't do that.

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netpotsAuthor

Contributor I

Nope tried that with music playing and when not, still will not turn off shuffle.

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techdad24

Lyricist I

We use Dropbox for our primary testing ground with around 300 songs - just tried the Alexa Shuffle Off while listening to music and it came back with the expected response. There may be something else causing the skill to return the “unable to access cloud” message. You could try disabling/re-enabling the skill. This will cause it to re-index and hopefully clear up any connection issues. Thank you again for using our skill.

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