srichter / asksonic

An Alexa skill to play music from Subsonic API compatible music servers

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Keeping the interaction open while playing music

phirestalker opened this issue · comments

I have tried music streaming services, but they all fall short in some way. This is why I am using this project to stream my own music. I have noticed (not just with your skill or even only on Alexa) that skills like these do not really replace music streaming functionality on these smart devices. I'm sure this is intentional on their part. It is not because these skills are not feature complete. The problem is that once you are playing music from a skill you cannot ask for something else (queue another song) without asking to speak to the skill again. I was wondering if keeping the interaction open "indefinitely" is an option.

For my personal version of this skill, I was thinking about making sure that each intent does not send the shouldendinteraction (or something) tag back to Alexa. Is this possible? What can I do to keep talking to this skill until I say stop music or exit?