Use voice commands to control music and podcasts with Amazon Alexa!

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Download the Alexa app, open it, and link your Spotify account with these steps:

• Check your desktop client's preferences/settings for a moment to see if 'Allow Spotify to be opened from Web' is allowed for you. Maybe that helps. 🙂 Yeah, play.spotify.com used to be accessible with IE and Edge. Still using it with a user-agent spoof.
• Spotify says that while it has a lot of data on its users – given that Spotify users, unlike other podcast app users, need to sign up and provide data to use Spotify – only the most relevant and non-invasive data is shared with podcasters themselves. Armed with this data, podcasters can seek better opportunities for monetising their podcasts.
• To listen to music on the go, download Spotify from the Google Play or Apple app store. Spotify on Android with Google Play Spotify on iOS with the AppStore. To listen on other devices, a separate app may or may not be required, depending on the device. For more information, see how to play on your speakers, car, TV, or games.

1. Tap the menu in the top-left.
2. Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
3. Select Spotify, then Link account to Alexa.
4. Enter your Spotify account details.

Set Spotify as your default service for music and podcasts so you don’t need to specify “on Spotify” at the end of your voice commands to play music:

1. Tap the menu in the top-left.
2. Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
3. Tap Choose default music services.
   Note: To set Spotify as your default podcast service, tap Choose default podcast service.
4. Select Spotify and tap DONE.

Note: You still need to say “on Spotify” at the end of commands to play podcasts.

Now just ask Alexa to play something! E.g. 'Alexa, play Discover Weekly'. Check out the Amazon help site for supported languages.

Supported devices

Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Spot, Amazon Echo Show, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV Cube, and all Sonos players.

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News Release Date: November 29, 2011

Contact:Park Information, 305-242-7700

Contact:Media Contact - Linda Friar, 305-242-7714

Contact:Univ of Georgia - Chuck Bargeron, 229-386-3298

Spotify Invasive App Free

Homestead/Miami, Florida: Everglades National Park (Park) is pleased to announce the release of a much expanded mobile app for tracking invasive exotics in Florida.The Park partnered with University of Georgia in the development of the 'IveGot1' app for the popular iPhone to identify and report invasive plants and animals spotted in Florida.

You can download this free app at the following link:

'IveGot1' is a real time integrated invasive species reporting tool and part of a comprehensive outreach campaign on invasive exotic plants and animals in Florida.The project includes the app, a website with direct access to invasive species reporting, and a hotline 1-888-IVEGOT1 for instant reporting of live animals. This app allows observations of invasive species to be reported directly with an iPhone that uploads to a designated location and is e-mailed directly to local and state verifiers for review.

The goal ofthe 'IveGot1' app is to make identification and reporting of these problematic species easy and efficient as possible.

Florida is an inviting destination for invasive species that threaten to undermine the health of the state's fragile environment.Non-native plants and animals can greatly alter the native landscape, adversely impact native wildlife, destroy agricultural crops and threaten public health. Invasions of exotic species cost Floridians over $500 million each year.Though significant, the economic costs are small compared to the ecological ones. Florida's public lands are highly vulnerable to invasion by exotic plant and animal species.As of today, more than 1.7 million acres of Florida's natural areas have been infested by invasive species.

This real time data collected through reported sightings of invasive animals and plants will allow scientists to better assess the extent of infestations and hopefully eradicate new infestations before they become problems such as melaleuca or Burmese pythons have become.

'IveGot1' was developed by the University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health through a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the University of Florida Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants were also part of this project.

The project was funded through the Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA), which is a formal partnership of federal, state, and local government agencies, tribes, individuals, and various interested groups that manage invasive species in the greater Everglades area.With this partnership and cooperation, has come the need to create a central location to report, share and store species sightings and distribution information.The University of Georgia's Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health supported this need through development of the web site for the Everglades CISMA that allows reporting of and information about invasive species (all taxa) in the CISMA.

The initial project, funded by the National Park Service Florida/Caribbean Exotic Pest Management Team, ended in September of 2008 and was extended with funds from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through September of 2012.The results of this project are available at www.evergladescisma.org.The cooperative agreement with the National Park Service to develop the iPhone app and to continue hosting and developing of the Everglades CISMA website and EDDMapS for Florida is a five year agreement that began in October of 2010.