Play your own music on Amazon echo

This skill plays music or audiobooks that you've uploaded on this website, shared on Google Drive or stored on your own server.

This is the website for the Alexa Skill: My Music Player
If you enable this skill, you'll get access to our website via Alexa (just ask: what are my login details for the website). At https://music.myhp.mobi you can manage your music and create playlists. This Skill supports shuffle play, single track play, artist play, album, genre, and plays playlists you define.

The skill is also suitable for playing audio books. These are stored as playlists. The skill allows you to continue at the point you left off and also to jump directly to a specific chapter.

Getting started Guide:

0. You might omit step 1 to 3 by saying YOU: Alexa, start my music player. ALEXA: ...... YOU: how do i start. Alexa will tell you to go to the alexa app to get your login and password. Then log into the website. Go to step 4.
1. Create an Account: click 'Register as new user' an fill in the form (only login and password required). Click Store data. Write down what you have choosen as login and password.
2. Login: Click login and enter your credentials
3. Connect your Alexa devices to the account: Click 'My Data' in the menue. Click the help button (?) on the line which says 'Alexa device linked' and follow the instructions which show up.
4. Click on 'New Playlist' in the menue enter Test as 'Playlist name' and klick 'Store data'
5. Click on 'Music Upload' in the menue and then on 'Create new music upload container'
6. Enter 'My first upload' as 'Description', as 'Playlist' select 'Test' form the dropdown. Click 'Store data'
7. Click on 'Music Upload' in the menue and then on 'Edit uploadcontainer / Upload ZIP File' The form you filled in will appear and you will see an input field 'ZIP archieve containing the music files' with a button 'Insert data'
8. Now you need to prepare a ZIP file containing the music you want to upload, for the beginning chosse maximum 3 mp3 files. For more help see this link
9. Click the 'insert data' button in the form and select the ZIP file which contains your music. Then click 'store file to database'.
10. The upload will start.
11. Click on 'Music Upload' in the menue in the list you will find a column 'Processing status' wait until it shows 'Processing finished, plase verify the results'
12. Click on on 'Edit uploadcontainer / Upload ZIP File'
13. Verify if the import was ok by reading 'Processing result of the ZIP File upload'
14. If everything went ok. Say to your Alexa device: Alexa, start my mucisc player ALEXAs Answer: This is your music player..... YOU: play the test playlist
15. Alexa will play the music you uploaded.
If you experience problems we have a video
If it is still not working open a support ticket, we wil lhelp you!

NEW: My Music Player Premium - Upload your music or audio books to our website and play them immediately!
If it's too complicated for you to upload your music to Google Drive or your own server and entering the metadata (url, title, artist etc.) on this website, you can also upload your music directly to this website, it is then immediately available.

This YouTube video shows you how to use premium access and upload music or audio books.

As a new user, you will receive a trial account with 100MB of storage space that is valid for 35 days so that you can test everything in peace.
Premium costs 10 euros for a year and offers you 5GB of storage space, which is enough for around 1000 music tracks.
If you upgrade to Premium before the end of the test period, the remaining days of the test period will be counted towards your Premium period . You can get up to 35 days free .

You can say the following:

Alexa, start my music player
Start shuffle play
Play the title <title name>
Play my <Playlist name> Playlist
Start shuffle play for my <playlist name> playlist
Play music from the genre <genre>
Play music from <Artist>
Play music from the album <Album>
Alexa, ask my music player what is the name of this song
Switch the expert mode <on / off>
What are my login details for the website?
What is the website address?
Connect my existing account
Reset my password
Which playlists are there?
Continue my <playlist name> playlist. (Only after a break, while playing the playlist, by saying: Alexa, Stop)
In the Alexa app, under the menu item activity, is shown what Alexa understood if something did not work out.

Questions and Answers:

After logging in, there is a FAQ section where questions and suggestions can be left, please use them instead of writing bug reports in the reviews of the skill. There is a video for importing data https://youtu.be/U7HSW9eJDro
If your music files contain the metadata such as title, artist, album, etc. in an ID3v2 tag,
it is possible to simply upload a list of URLs to the import section and the system will read the metadata automatically from the music files,
and write them to the database.

- With which servers does this skill work?
The skill works with all servers that are accessible via https and have a valid official SSL certificate, so for example with your NextCloud Server. Introduction how to use a NextCloud Server.
In order for https to work you need to install an SSL certificate. Chekout https://letsencrypt.org/ for free SLL Certificates.
The skill may also work with other online storage providers, but we have not tested this yet.

- Do I have to enter each title manually or is there an easier way? The system has the possibility to upload a CSV file, as you know it eg with Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
With this you can import all titles in one go. The format of the file is: either
"Title", "Artist", "Album", "Release year or a 0 for unknown", "Genre ID (0-147 or 255 for unknown) "," URL (Google Drive Link or Custom URL) "," Playlist IDs separated by semicolon (optional) "," 1 = Overwrite existing data or empty "," Line number (optional) "The quotation marks that include each value are optional , the character set is UTF-8.
Or if the files contain ID3v2 tags:
"URL (Google Drive Link or Custom URL)", "Playlist IDs separated by semicolon (optional)", "1 = Overwrite existing data or blank (optional)", "Line number (optional)"
There is a Google Spreadsheet plugin around in order to import the uploaded titles directly into a spreadsheet.
See:
https://www.syncwithtech.org/google-drive-direct-links/
and
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drive-direct-links/ngpoldeingjjfdakifaogalmonjjdblm

- I already have an account on your website, which contains my music, what do I do now? If you already have access to our website, you can connect Alexa to your existing account.
Go to the website, log in and go to 'Personal Data' where you will see the key to the account connection.
Say: Alexa, start my music player and then: connect my existing account
Now you will be asked for the key to the account, speak clearly digit by digit.
Alexa will then connect your existing account.
The account that Alexa created for you the first time the skill is started will be deleted.