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Amazon Echo / Alexa music
- Thread starter Jam The Man
- Start date
I've just started to read this thread.....it's like a foreign language. I have a Spotify account which I use as a secondary source of music but the rest has passed me by.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
You're right .. pick up CDs for less than 10p at car boot sales. Like you I had 100s of cds on several shelves covering a whole wall. A few years ago when I moved I transferred them from the plastic cases into plastic protectors which I bought a 1000 for about £2 in Malaysia. Now I get approx 80 cds in 6" of space in 3 of those plastic storage solution underbed 32ltr boxes.
Just finished ripping all my cds in flac on portable hard disk.
Similar here. Just avoid Jeremy Vine (although you probably do anyway) as he keeps saying 'Alexa'. I think he's brain dead.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
I play records.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
I didn't have a huge vinyl collection, and a lot got nicked when my flat got burgled in '97, I then didn't replace them, sold the rest, MP3s had just started so I was ripping the CDs I had. Was only thinking the other day how I'd love to be sticking a bit of vinyl on, and see the kids faces of wtf are you doing Dad!?
I don't like that idea.
Incidentally, how many times has she been asked if she takes it up the a***? If they know the number of marriage proposals they must know this too.
Perfidious Albion
Well-known member
Alexa is one of those things that perhaps you cannot see much use for until you have it, then you end up using it all the time.
She wakes me up in the morning, gives spoken reminders of things at the correct time, gives timer alerts, gives information , tells me a news summary when I come home, will tell me the weather forecast , converts imperial measures to metric, tells me how to spell difficult words .......and more . The functionality is increasing all the time .
I love it....
She wakes me up in the morning, gives spoken reminders of things at the correct time, gives timer alerts, gives information , tells me a news summary when I come home, will tell me the weather forecast , converts imperial measures to metric, tells me how to spell difficult words .......and more . The functionality is increasing all the time .
I love it....
wehatepalace
Limbs
Must have missed that ! Well in that case I'm waiting for the homepod to be released in December 
Any ideas on pricing yet ?
Any ideas on pricing yet ?
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Mine arrived this morning, was thinking of getting it at £150, so jumped at it at £80. So far impressed, particularly how easy it was to link calendars to it, and it is a lot better than Siri in my opinion on first impressions. Better sound on the Echo than I'd thought too, I have a Play 1 and its not far off.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Must have missed that ! Well in that case I'm waiting for the homepod to be released in December
Any ideas on pricing yet ?
Rumoured to be £350 (I think its been priced at $349 in the US).
Considering a Sonos Play 1 and a Dot costs you £240, Sonos Play 3 is £270, this is going to have to be quite something to grab the market at £350.
Must have missed that ! Well in that case I'm waiting for the homepod to be released in December
Any ideas on pricing yet ?
$349 so likely £349 for us (£299 at a push) which feels expensive to me.
I've got non-buyers remorse now!
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
2 days in and already Alexa has turned into a 6th member of the household we couldn't do without! From, what the hell do we need one of those for, to how the hell did we manage without one of these!? It is just very simple and it works.
Oh, sod off.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
What most impresses me is the amount she actually understands and then puts into action immediately