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When streaming to an Echo with a screen, the *cover art* plus the album-name and (album) artist-name are now shown on the Echo's display :cool: This is the case when streaming an album, single (CDM/CDS) or compilation (various/V.A.). For tracks/songs, favorites, genre-loads or playlists you will still see the familiar placeholder image. The reason for this is that a skill cannot update the display metadata after your initial voice command is processed. To Alexa, it's all a single stream with all the same metadata until your next voice command to change the stream. With an album/single/compilation, it makes sense to show the cover because the whole stream inherently has the same artwork. With a bunch of separate tracks with spurious covers, there's no point in permanently displaying the cover for the first track. Hence the placeholder. Note that it won't work if you have a roll-your-own proxy with a port other than 443 because my firewall will block the outgoing curl to pick up the artwork. This won't be an issue for you with ngrok or with apache/nginx when using 443. Enjoy ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: IMG_5636.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34123| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
