Audio Streaming Offset is not working

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Bjorn Vuylsteker asked · Jan 04, 2017 at 08:43 AM

Audio Streaming Offset is not working

When starting a stream on a certain offset, the audio plays from the beginning instead of the set offset point. As an example, the following example (which does not play starting from 10s) is given:

{'outputSpeech': {'text': '', 'type': 'PlainText'}, 'directives': [{'playBehavior': 'REPLACE_ALL', 'audioItem': {'stream': {'url': 'https://www.djkutski.com/podcast/keepingtheravealive121.mp3', 'token': '33529', 'offsetInMilliseconds': 10000}}, 'type': 'AudioPlayer.Play'}]}

Is this response given incorrect? Or is the offestInMilliseconds tag broken and AVS just ignores it?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-11T17:04:27Z

Ingrid answered · Jan 11, 2017 at 05:04 PM

Hi Bjorn, I am also working on getting Alexa to play a unique .mp3 file. Do you still have the code that works for this, or is it on GitHub? I've been working on it for days without success. Thank you.

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Answer 2 · 2017-01-04T21:20:43Z

elstryan@Amazon answered · Jan 04, 2017 at 09:20 PM

Hi Bjorn,

The offsetInMilliseconds is an instruction for your client to implement when handling the track.

It is the timestamp in the stream from which the client is expected to begin playback. When offsetInMilliseconds is set to 0, this indicates the stream should start to play from the beginning. Any other value will start playback from that associated point in the stream.

So for the specific example that you posted when you hand this URL off to your audio player you should also pass an argument to start playback at 10000 milliseconds. For example if you were using MediaPlayer you would use the seekTo API to set the time to start playing from.

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Bjorn Vuylsteker · Jan 05, 2017 at 07:06 AM

Hi! Thank you for the quick reply!

I personally thought that the offsetInMilliseconds is the argument that needs to be set to start playback at, for example, 10000 milliseconds. How would I need to change my response given above to let an Amazon Echo device start playback from 10000 milliseconds? I know the Echo dot can pause and resume a music stream on itself, as it already shows this functionality when, for example, a question is asked while a music stream is playing.

The response given above is, for clearness, the response given by my application to send back to the Echo device after a Amazon.Resume intent has been issued.

Or am I going about this wrong and does the server need to set the offset variable in the stream, so the provided stream link will start automatically from the set point? In this scenario, the offsetInMilliseconds is thus just a placeholder to keep track of the value.

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