Podcasts Are No Longer Working - Is it just me?

[robjulo]

I cannot get my echo dot or Sonos One to play podcasts.  For example, when I ask Alexa to "play the Dan Lebatard show podcast", the response is "I could not find the program the Dan Lebatard show".

Even telling it to play on TuneIn leads to the same result.

I've tried other podcasts, with the same result.  I know the podcasts are there, because I see them on the TuneIn app.

Any thoughts?

[Laurel]

I tried verbally getting the podcast you mentioned --no luck.  But on the website I could go to tunein radio and find zillions of podcasts under the category podcast, and I played one on animals eating what they shouuldn't at Christmas.  Not sure if I could have entered a particular podcast to search for it though.

[robjulo]

Thanks.  I figured it out.  I had to say the name of the podcast with the goofy pronunciation/inflection that Alexa uses for "lebatard".....somehow I stumbled across the pronunciation I need to use for his last name and once I said it like that, it came up.

I don't recall that being an issue before, but until I bought my Sonos, I've largely been playing that podcast through Google Home, which handles the normal pronunciation without issue.

I tried verbally getting the podcast you mentioned --no luck.  But on the website I could go to tunein radio and find zillions of podcasts under the category podcast, and I played one on animals eating what they shouuldn't at Christmas.  Not sure if I could have entered a particular podcast to search for it though.

[Laurel]

That is interesting. My husband said I should try saying "Lebatard" a few different ways. I tried one different pronunciation and gave up lol.