This sounds very much like the problem I've been having, except for the gprayback's resolution... I have several stations, but four primary stations that I use often. I've gone through a few rounds of changing their names so that Google/Gemini can recognize them, originally because no LLM AI was going to resolve "thojazzmic" and then later because Google seemed to have seemingly arbitrary problems resolving some more straightforward names. But, especially since the recent migration to Gemini, the state has been more or less consistent: One of my station names, Wondrous Variety, is consistently recognized and I can play it on my Google Home speaker whenever I want. The other three—Sonic Breeze, Electron Beam, and Fluid Cadence—are consistently and completely inaccessible from and of my Google speakers. Gemini will often respond positively and correctly as though it recognized the station name, and then state that the action cannot be completed at this time. I don't want to keep experimenting with changing their names, as (1) the current names are all words that should be recognizable, (2) Gemini does seem to be resolving the names, and (3) I have no reason to believe that that will fix anything at this point. Some sort of cache-layer problem, as gprayback suggested, could very well be interfering here, but I don't have any sort of visibility into that. Ref. https://x.com/Thogek/status/2101734740030284055 Interestingly, I have a few Amazon Alexa/Echo devices which do not exhibit this problem at all and work consistently just fine with my Pandora station names. EDIT: I belatedly realized that this thread is with respect to Alexa/Echo devices, while my case is specific to Google/Gemini. Feel free to delete my comment (which I don't seem able to do) if appropriate.
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