Are your Alexa Echo Dots your go to music source at home

[Paula_Dickerson]

I now have 4 echo dots located in the kitchen, den, master and upstairs den. The ease to ask Alexa to play any song from a multitude of Service except for Qobuz, they are still late to the party, has taken over my daily enjoyment to listen to music.

I have found the sync is even working better than Roons, which really perturbed me since Alexa is free.

There really is no comparison in ease of use. Take tonight having people over. They just randomly asked Alexa to play artists,songs, 50s music as this was a viewing part of Primes The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Roon always disappointed and was embarrassing to use in a group. Roon is still clunky even with the marketing and rebranding effort.

$100 I have music everywhere, home automation - control Tv, control thermostat, control lights. But no Roon integration.

This begs the question why can every other music provider excluding Qobuz provide Alexa integration? @support can you help your customers understand this.

[Martin_Webster]

This begs the question why can every other music provider excluding Qobuz provide Alexa integration?

But Roon isn’t a music provider it’s a player! You may as well ask the same question of any player.

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Well, I am in your situation. I do have Echos a plenty and the spouse prefers them. However, Roon does speak directly to devices running Google Home and Chromecast and I have populated the same areas with both devices. So, I have the best of both worlds.

Speaking of which, neither is a home run. Google has better interaction with Phillips Hue lighting and Ecobee thermostats. Amazon has decades of my music purchases and a good video screens. My google devices include portable battery run, and good sounding, boom boxes, a hardware format amazon doesn’t really have yet.

[xxx]

The ease to ask Alexa to play any song from a multitude of Service

Can’t beat the convenience, I suppose.

$100 I have music everywhere

Sorry, not really music. It’s just noise that you’ve come to identify as music.

[Fernando_Pereira]

Sorry, not really music. It’s just noise that you’ve come to identify as music.

I agree with you there (I heart-ed it), but long ago a professional classical musician friend-of-a-friend explained that he only used lo-fi gear because no money could buy his live music experience. He was the guy who recommended Dave Holland’s Conference of the Birds, which sent me on a life-long beautiful exploration of modern jazz, so his judgement still weighs a lot with me.

[noris]

This begs the question why can every other music provider excluding Qobuz provide Alexa integration? @support can you help your customers understand this.

Please see @danny’s post here:

Alexa voice control

This project is in the back burner… It never worked well… Alexa seems to fail badly when music is playing, and the fact that Roon sounds like Room makes it even worse. We could release it, but it’d be a very poor product. Additionally, no one on our team would want to live with it, so it would slowly wither and just be a sore spot for Roon members who would expect a high quality product. The idea is great, but the implementation isn’t there… We will revisit with future software upd…

[xxx]

a professional classical musician friend-of-a-friend explained that he only used lo-fi gear because no money could buy his live music experience.

Hmm, not sure I understand the logic, but good for you then good for me.

Dave Holland’s Conference of the Bird

Thanks for the recommendation. I put it in my library.

[Fernando_Pereira]

Hmm, not sure I understand the logic, but good for you then good for me.

Any audio system sounded so poor compared with the live experience that he might as well use a cheap turntable (it was back in those days).

[Paula_Dickerson]

Danny’s response is not what you’d expect to hear.
It seems they haven’t even looked into it if they believe the similarity to Room and Roon is a deal breaker.

My stereo continues to sit along with Roon, while Alexa happily plays away all over the house for under $75. And it’s in sync.

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

I can play Roon all over my house in sync in nice quality no issues without Alexa I don’t need voice control to do it.

I have an Alexa for but have no desire to use it for music as it sounds gash. Tried it to run Plex its a disaster. Same controlling my Harmony to control TV and hifi kit. It’s used to turn the lights on/off and the kids asking it to tell jokes as that’s about all it’s good for in my opinion.

[Afullmark]

I tend to agree; but casting to something like the new Echo Studio or the Echo Amp would be welcome; that just needs Amazon to open up Alexa Cast to developers. Maybe we’ll see that this year as they where talking about expanding Alexa Cast last year.

It would open up Roon to all the Echo customer that have their own CD collection stored locally.