It turns out, that may have been the problem all along. But one day, for some reason, I had an epiphany: What if my Amazon Echo is getting confused with the genre and the playlist? I even double-checked with Plex’s list of Alexa Voice Commands to make sure I was saying things exactly right. Try asking again.” For months (maybe even years), I just assumed that the Plex Skill was subpar and couldn’t do what I wanted it to do. ” My Echo would then say, “I’m sorry, I didn’t catch what you wanted to play. Then I would say something like, “Play playlist Folk. I would say to my Amazon Echo, “Open Plex.” Plex would open fine. In other words, my Folk playlist was literally just named “Folk.”Įnter the problem.

I’m all about keeping things simple, so I originally named most of those smart playlists in Plex as just the genre. Most of these are generated based on the genre of music – Folk, Classic Rock, Alternative, Classical, etc. I have a number of really generic smart playlists that I have auto-generated in Plex.

The second issue is the one that I finally figured out. I may try to figure that out at some point. I don’t have a solution for that problem.

The first issue is that sometimes after I open Plex and tell it to play something, it just ignores me and does nothing, which is really annoying. What doesn’t always work great is playing plex with an Amazon Echo device. Playing my music through Plex via my browser at work, via my Roku in the family room, and via the Plex Amp app on my phone, all works great. Everywhere else, I use Plex to play my music. On my primary desktop at home, I mount the music folder and use Clementine to listen to my music.

List of alexa playlists