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Pocketcast alexa5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I live and die (er, sleep) by my queue - the "Up Next" playlist where I put all the episodes I want to listen to, rearrange them based on what I feel like listening to in the moment, and which I can let play for hours and hours and never have to think about (until I want to obsess about it some more). Dale Smith/CNET Alexa still can't handle your queue You don't have to lift a finger to listen to podcasts on Amazon Echoes. ![]() Fans of Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast may find themselves in a similar pickle, listening to a financial podcast also called Making Sense. If you're a fan of Dax Shepherd's podcast and ask for "Armchair Expert," you might get an almost surreal sort of test episode called Introduction to Anchor belonging to a podcast titled, you guessed it, Armchair Expert. (See the next section for navigating around from this point.)įinally, there are a number of podcasts with similar or, in some cases, exactly the same name as other shows and, in my experience, Alexa always picks the more obscure of the two when you ask for them. ![]() "Alexa, play the TED Radio Hour from March 19" will cue up that specific episode. Specific episode numbers or titles are liable to yield an error message, so you'll want to pull out your favorite podcatcher app and drill down to find the date of the episode you want (if you're binging, for example). When trying to locate a specific episode of a podcast, the only consistently effective way to find it with Alexa is to include the date. To binge a particular show, start with an earlier episode and Alexa will play them back to back until you get to the most recent.
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