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Playing streams

Hi! Does anyone know if it is possible to play music streams like internet radio via a skill I have built? (I know you can ask Alexa to play music) however I wanted to have a go at playing a stream through the system. This will be used mainly for a demo so will not be going through certification. Thanks
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You can only play a 90 second low quality sound clip through Alexa. You can string a few of them together. But you can't stream. Given the legal hoops Alexa must have had to jump through to do even this much, I'm amazed we can play sound at all. I don't think we'll ever get streaming. But you can go find the feature request thread for this and +1 it if you like.
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