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AudioPlayer Live Streaming and Carousel / Metadata

Just making sure before I submit a skill with a more limited feature set (boo!), but is there any way to display an overlay on or alternative UI to the built-in AudioPlayer with metadata? The end goal is to have dynamic now playing and EPG information appear while you're listening to the radio station stream.


So far I've tried APL and display templates. Both of them can look pretty for example:



But they only display (silently) until a timeout then the audio stream and built-in view takes over:



I understand the APL documentation explicitly states it doesn't work with AudioPlayer. Display templates behaves similarly. I also know you can't dynamiclly update the metadata on an already playing stream.


Is there a way of displaying (and updating) such information. Ideally I'd love to drive it from a websocket but we'll take any method involving polling for now if it gets the display to work.

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Amazon_Bernardo Bezerra answered

Hello @steelegbr and thank you for your message.

As you mentioned, the feature you described is not available at this moment. You can add it as a feature request in our Uservoice space over here.

Regards,
Barry

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