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tr888 · ‎03-12-2026

I changed the wake-word to "Echo" on day one, but with the new Gen2 paired stereo setup, I've given each speaker different wake-words. The wake-word doesn't matter; same results regardless of which speaker is involved. After starting my Pandora radio station: "Echo, what's playing?" -- "Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see anything playing". After stopping the radio station: "Echo, is anything playing?" -- "Here's [my user name]'s Pandora." [and the music of my usual station starts up]

tr888 · ‎03-11-2026

Thanks for passing the issue along. I checked the Default Settings as you said to do, and they were set to Amazon Music. I've changed all of the settings related to music and podcast to Pandora, but I still get the "Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see anything playing error". And now, when I say "Echo, thumbs up" I get an error that I can only set thumbs up or down "on a song playing on a custom radio station" even when playing my Pandora station, although "Echo, thumb up this song" works as expected. I'm also told that "similar feedback" has already been set on the song when that is indeed the case. So some metadata is definitely coming across. I wonder if it's the wording of the command? If I say, "Echo, is my Pandora radio station playing?" Echo responds, "Shuffling your stations from {my username}'s Pandora".

tr888 · ‎03-08-2026

I have been streaming a Pandora radio station I created over 10 years ago to my Amazon Echo 1st-generation speaker for almost as long. I have been able to give songs thumbs up or down ("Echo, thumbs up"), ask for the title of the current song ("Echo, what song is this?") and skip to the next song ("Echo, next song"). Recently I bought two second-generation Echo speakers in order to set up a paired stereo configuration, which Gen1 Echo did not support. I have the speakers successfully paired, and am able to stream my Pandora radio station, but the thumbs up/down command and the which song is this? commands always fail. The Alexa voice always says words to the effect "nothing appears to be playing". Sometimes the error starts with "Sorry, ..." , sometimes with "Hmmm, ....". I'm wondering if there's anything in the Pandora file stream that would prevent the "Pandora Skill" on Amazon's second-generation speakers from working properly when they have been paired in a left-right stereo configuration. Is the metadata identifying the current song not being supplied at the start of the song, so that Alexa has a NULL object reference or something like that? P.S. I just changed the command to "Echo, thumb up this song" and it worked. But ""Echo, what is playing?" gets an error "Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see anything playing".

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