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r/amazonecho•
HeyRememberThatTime

Alexa has stopped announcing song samples as samples?

Question

Instead of the old, "Here's a sample of...," announcement now she just announces the song title and artist going into a sample. So it's not always obvious that it even is a sample that she's playing.

The first thing I thought was that we might have had Brief Mode rolled out to us, but I still don't see a setting for it anywhere. Is this happening to anyone else? If this is a real change, it seriously sucks. Instead of giving us a way to disable song samples entirely, they decide to make samples even more annoying?

Posted Mar 17, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

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dodswm•

Yeah I noticed that too... Especially annoying when it plays a sample of song that I have the full version of in my library

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LadyBaconHands•

Torn on just playing the sample (that my kids are plenty happy to dance to for 30 seconds) or going on for 1 minute about how that isn't available and offering me to sign up for music unlimited

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Patnet•

Exactly my thought process!

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sarty•

I noticed that as well. I'm not sure I like the change.

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ddaug4uf•

That seems like a terrible idea. Not just from a user perspective but from a marketing standpoint for Music Unlimited. Maybe you moved into Amazon’s “We give up on squeezing an extra $10/month out of this guy” group? /S

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Travisparagus•

This feels like a terrible decision - either announce samples before they're played or don't play samples at all. Don't pretend like you're going to play the song and then stop after 30 seconds.

It's impossible to tell if the music was a sample or if it's just paused because it's buffering, so I'm wasting time after the sample finishes playing the "will it/won't it continue playing" game.

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