Grateful Dead Recordings To Stream On Amazon Echo And Alexa Devices
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Nice, it looks like Amazon is stealing the GD catalog to sell devices.
For the first time, you can now listen to hundreds of vintage, never commercially released, Grateful Dead recordings on your Amazon Echo with the Sunshine Daydream skill. Echo and other Alexa devices let you instantly connect to Alexa to play music, control your smart home, get information, news, weather, and, most importantly, listen to hundred of the best Grateful Dead recordings.
Already have an Echo or Alexa device? Say “Alexa, open Sunshine Daydream” to get started and follow the prompts.
Have a must-listen to Grateful Dead recording from Archive.org? Submit your favorites here and they’ll be included in future releases of Sunshine Daydream.
The skill is and always will be free. And remember, if you get confused, listen to the music play.
100’s of hand-picked recordings from the archives
Archive.org is home to thousands of audience and soundboard recordings of the Grateful Dead’s long, strange trip. Sunshine Daydream contains over 100 of the best recordings of the best performances spanning their 30-year history.
Ask Alexa to open Sunshine Daydream to start
Once open, say “Alexa, ask Sunshine Daydream to..”
Steal my face
Keep truckin’
Let there be songs to fill the air
Play some dead
Shuffle and resume
In addition to navigating to the next and previous tracks in the playlist, you can ask Sunshine Daydream to shuffle. If you close the skill in the middle of a jam, don’t worry, you’ll pick up right where you left off when you open the skill the next time.
Want to know more about Sunshine Daydream or interested in making an Alexa Skill for another band? Say hello at [email protected].
Sunshine Daydream loves the dead but is in no way affiliated with The Grateful Dead or affiliated enterprises. There are no commercially released recordings included the skill.
Grateful Dead Recordings Now Available To Stream On Amazon Echo And Alexa Devices For Free
Posted by admin on Thursday August 17th, 2017
Amazon Echo has just learned a new skill that allows users to listen to vintage Grateful Dead recordings. By simply saying, “Alexa, open Sunshine Daydream” and following the prompts, Echo and other Alexa devices will provide hours of Grateful Dead recordings for free throughout your home speaker system. Sunshine Daydream contains hundreds of the best commercially unreleased recordings of the best performances spanning their 30-year history from Archive.org. All live songs included in the skill are handpicked from thousands of recordings. You can also submit your favorites hereand they’ll be included in future releases of Sunshine Daydream.
According to JamBuzz, users can ask Alexa to “steal my face,” “keep truckin’,” “let there be songs to fill the air,” and “play some dead” with the new skill. In addition to navigating to the next and previous tracks in the playlist, you can ask Sunshine Daydream to shuffle. If you close the skill in the middle of a jam, it will even pick up right where you left off when you open the skill the next time. Learn more about Sunshine Daydream here.
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-sunshine-daydream-amazon/
https://jam.buzz/extra/sunshine-daydream/
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thredkilla
Roku has a channel named Dead
Roku has a channel named Dead Shows where it lets you browse Archive.org by year & by date and you can play any song as well, just as if you were on archive.org. I am like a pig in mud w this thang as my tv sound bar sounds pretty good compared to my pc speakers. It's definitely easier than browsing the collection on archive.org itself.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Dr. Benway
needs a shuffle feature where
needs a shuffle feature where it shuffles like normal, except if the title of the track ends with > it would make it play the next song in non-shuffle order until it reaches a track title than ends with a letter
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: I rang a silent bell
Daylight, that is a great
Daylight, that is a great idea. I hate it when > is interrupted.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
My Alexa won't open it.
My Alexa won't open it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
Got it. I first had to enable
Got it. I first had to enable the skill in the app.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: fish
I don't understand the
I don't understand the "stealing " from the op.
Just seems like a convenient link to the archive?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
I don't think Amazon made the
I don't think Amazon made the app. And yes, all it does is link to audience recordings on Archive. It doesn't even play whole shows. It's hardly stealing to tap into something that's already free.