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by aidos 3455 days ago
I've had the same experience. My 5 year old came down stairs the other morning and put on some music for herself (Bowie, even) which I thought was wonderful.

Though it was pretty funny/depressing hearing how broken the experience was this morning.

    "Alexa, play Moana" - "Here's songs by Nirvana"
    "No, Alexa, play Moana soundtrack" - "I think you might like music by Adelle"
    "What? Alexa, play the Moana original motion picture soundtrack" - "Playing Moana original motion picture soundtrack"
We're so close, but we still have a long way to go.
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The other night, sleepless and excited by having found a few commands around podcasts / reading kindle books back (apparently "read from my Kindle" is an Audible command, grr) I tried:

    "Alexa, play me a podcast"
Sadly, I got:

    "Here's a station you might like: Linkin Park"
...it even got my request right in the app. I have no idea how it managed that "fulfilment".