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Asking Google Home or Amazon Echo to play any song you like from the Spotify catalog is extremely liberating—but until there is support for the Spotify Connect feature, these devices can only play back music on their own speakers, or on speakers to which they're directly connected. I have AirPlay speakers all over the house and I would like to be able to tell Alexa or Google Assistant to play a given song in my living room or my kitchen or in my office—or any combination of those locations—but that's just not possible today. This was the biggest of the complaints I wrote about last week in my comparison of Echo and Home.

Persistence and hackery can overcome almost any tech roadblock though. Over the weekend I strung together a series of tools that allow me to issue voice commands to Google Home (which I prefer slightly) to select music on Spotify, then switch the playback to the Mac mini that sits at the heart of my home theater setup, and from there pipe music to the various AirPlay speakers in the house.

What's more interesting is that the basics of this solution could theoretically allow you to control almost anything on your Mac via voice—and it's incredibly easy to set up. It starts with the invaluable IFTTT service, which supports both Google Assistant and Alexa. You can define your own custom phrases to serve as IFTTT triggers, which can then generate simple text files on a cloud storage service like Dropbox, which can kick off automated routines on your Mac. This is what it looks like to set up the IFTTT component:

When you set Dropbox to sync the resulting text files to your Mac's hard drive, the key is to do so to directories that you've loaded with macOS's Folder Actions feature. Basically, when the text files are added to these folders, they act as triggers for Automator actions, which can do tons of stuff, including run AppleScript code—which in turn can do even more stuff. Once Automator is done, it can even clean up after itself by trashing the text file it used as a trigger, if you need.

This is the basic approach I use to enable Google Home to play music throughout my house, though there are more steps involved, and some janky workarounds. Using the Home's built-in voice commands I search for and play the songs I want, just as you would normally do. Then I speak a custom phrase like 'Switch tunes to home theater' (most music playback-related phrases are reserved by Google Home so you can't just say 'Ok Google, play music on my home theater') to kick off an IFTTT applet. The applet saves a text file in Dropbox, which syncs to my Mac to a directory with a folder action attached to it. That action runs a bit of AppleScript to open Spotify and, through the brute force of repeating pre-recorded mouse locations and clicks (courtesy of an extremely unsexy app called Mac Auto Mouse Click), it opens the Spotify Connect menu and switches the playback device from Google Home to the Mac mini. Then finally (whew), Automator also tells AirFoil to redirect that music to a pre-defined set of AirPlay speakers. All of a sudden, the music I asked for in the kitchen is playing all over the house.

Granted, the setup is hardly elegant, to say the least. The beauty of it is that it's incredibly simple to set up, easy enough that I've created a series of similar commands to play and pause the music, jump back and forward, etc. As I've said in the past, I'm not a programmer by any means—before this weekend I had never spent more than a few minutes in Automator or writing AppleScript—so the learning curve is shallow.

Your MacBook will use your Alexa for playback. If you've upgraded to macOS Sierra, you can use Siri for voice commands. 1 point 3 years ago. It pairs with your computer just fine just like any other Bluetooth speaker. 2 points 3 years ago. Installation instructions for installing My Media for Alexa on a Mac computer and enabling the skill within Alexa.

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This kind of rudimentary but highly engaging automation is sure to become more and more central to consumers as voice-powered interfaces gain ground. So it's all the more concerning that Apple parted ways with its longtime champion of automation products last fall, though perhaps there are other plans afoot to continuing evolving the automation of Apple's devices and software. Looking ahead at a future filled with these kinds of devices, as users we are only going to want the apps and services that we use to be more scriptable, more responsive to integrations. And we'll want that ability to automate to be simple enough that we can put together the missing flows and actions that we want ourselves.

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Your MacBook will use your Alexa for playback. If you've upgraded to macOS Sierra, you can use Siri for voice commands. 1 point 3 years ago. It pairs with your computer just fine just like any other Bluetooth speaker. 2 points 3 years ago. Installation instructions for installing My Media for Alexa on a Mac computer and enabling the skill within Alexa.

1. SiriusXM is offering free access to its premium streaming service until May 15, giving users the ability to tune in to over 300 channels conveniently from their Mac or iPhone. Here's how to take.
2. Free App 'Reverb' Brings Amazon's Alexa to Mac Desktops, iPhones, and iPads Sunday February 19, 2017 4:45 AM PST by Tim Hardwick Developers at U.S. Digital consultancy Rain have created a.
3. Five setup tips for Apple's new MacBook Air. The 14-hour battery on the new 13-inch Air is great, but MacBooks still don't come fully optimized out of the box.

This kind of rudimentary but highly engaging automation is sure to become more and more central to consumers as voice-powered interfaces gain ground. So it's all the more concerning that Apple parted ways with its longtime champion of automation products last fall, though perhaps there are other plans afoot to continuing evolving the automation of Apple's devices and software. Looking ahead at a future filled with these kinds of devices, as users we are only going to want the apps and services that we use to be more scriptable, more responsive to integrations. And we'll want that ability to automate to be simple enough that we can put together the missing flows and actions that we want ourselves.

Everything you need for a successful day

Any.do's planner for Mac helps you get the most out of your day. Plan ahead with ease by dragging and dropping tasks from your to-do list into your schedule, within a simple visual dashboard.

'Great planner! This is super easy to use and really handy! It has really helped increase my daily productivity. I love being able to see what I've crossed off and what still needs to get done. First app I use in he morning!'

'I have tried many planner and lists apps, but this is my favorite. I have so much to keep track of. And even though I still use my physical planner, I can write everything I need to do down on this app. It keeps me calm and not overwhelmed. I love using this app.'

'Great tool, has paid for features worth getting. I really like moments which helps you plan your day ahead and quickly rearrange to dos. Took me a while to work out where to find the desktop version (if on mac, go to the mac app store) but it is similarly great. New assistant feature looks awesome.'

'The app is smooth, intelligent and just what a person need. The day planner is top.'

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'It is the greatest little planner. I just love getting my day organised with it . A+++'

'Fun controls, great interface, helpful alerts, this is overall a great app because it just makes sense! Pokemon phone emulator. Features of ms excel 2013. If you're looking for a planner or to-do app, this is definitely the one.'

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