Add support for User's Playback (playlist/album/artist)

thorpelawrence / alexa-spotify-connect

Control Spotify Connect devices with Alexa

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Add support for User's Playback (playlist/album/artist) #76

Open digger18 opened 3 years ago

digger18 commented 3 years ago

I would like to have the ability to play a Spotify playlist on a Spotify Connect enabled device (using Alexa Routine).

I believe that this API call should be part of this skill: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/start-a-users-playback/

The command should look like this: "Alexa, ask Connect Control to play {PLAYLIST|ALBUM|ARTIST} {PLAYLIST|ALBUM|ARTIST NAME} on {DEVICE}"

thorpelawrence commented 3 years ago

Hi,

As I haven't had much time to work on this, I am not sure if I'll be able to implement it unfortunately, but would be happy to accept any pull requests that add this functionality

thorpelawrence commented 3 years ago

I've had a quick look, maybe the queue functionality could work?

For example:

queue {the song|} {-|TRACKNAME}
add {the song|} {-|TRACKNAME} to {my|the} queue

Otherwise (since I originally intended to keep it quite simple), I would usually use Spotify directly on Alexa to start, and then just transfer, etc, if that works?