The song that impacted you the most -THE THREAD 🔉
This was first brought up in  but was mistakenly closed as a regional access issue. I’m in the U.S. and this is functionality that used to work (i.e., the Deezer Alexa skill used to be able to play song by particular artists). My guess is that Amazon Alexa has recently changed the APIs and that the Deezer Alexa skill hasn’t been updated to support the new distinctions that Alexa is making between general music, artists, and genres. Backing up… the problem is that one can no longer say “Alexa play songs by the Grateful Dead” (with Deezer set as the default music skill) -- this is because Alexa has segregated artists and genres out from just standard music requests (probably as an attempt to drive more people to using Amazon Music). The previous ticket/thread on this noted that Deezer’s skill cannot be assigned as a listener for artist/genre requests (so now only works if you say “Alexa plays songs on Deezer”). This limitation greatly reduces the functionality of the Deezer Alexa skill (
Deezer’s Chromecast app scrobbles, but the Deezer Alexa app does not. Is this a bug? Should it work?
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