The new favorites engine is live. The spoken commands all stay the same, it's just the way they are handled that changed.
Playing by *dot *notation works directly with the supplied utterance and does not bother with ephemeral IDs any longer. A side effect of this is that if you ask to play a favorite that does not exist, the higher-order favorite that exists will play instead. In other words, if you ask to play 2 dot 3 dot 1 dot 7 and there is no fourth level of favorites in your hierarchy, item 2.3.1 would play if it existed. If not, 2.3 would play. etc. LMS just ignores rightmost invalidities in SNMP-style favorite-IDs. To figure out what numbers to use between the dots, just look at your favorites in the *default *skin and count both folders -and -audio items in the order shown to get the correct value. Playing by *name *now makes use of a search function -without -first retrieving all your favorites. If a search fails then as step two a repeated search attempt using each word in the favorite name separately is tried. For example, if you request Naim Radio, Alexa hears "Name Radio" which fails the search (LMS does not do anything Fuzzy). This is split into 2 search items, 'Name' and 'Radio'. Naim Radio will not appear in the results when 'Name' is tried but it will be included in the results for 'Radio'. The skill's fuzzy match of Name Radio against Naim Radio -will -work, so Naim Radio will play. If none of the searches matches outright, as a fallback your whole favorites tree is fetched recursively and then a fuzzy match is attempted against the whole actual tree. In 99% of cases, timeouts should be a thing of the past. Whenever all your favorites -must -be fetched recursively i.e. when you list favorites, play by number, or play by folder/item they are now held in Alexa's *session storage* so any subsequent command in a session simply re-uses the stored hierarchy instead of retrieving again. Remember, on Echos with screens, any command that displays APL for 30 seconds on screen creates a session in the background successive favorites commands will now always be faster on an Echo Show! Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016
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