How to Play Your MP3 Music on Alexa with PLEX Full Tutorial

In this tutorial, I show you how to play your MP3 music on Alexa with Plex Media Server and Plex Alexa Skill. As a bonus, I'll show you a "Cast" demo playing music or video to Google Home and/or Chromecast.

Learn more about Plex here - http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-9162454-13098741

Materials Needed:
Raspberry Pi 3 or 3B+ Kit - https://amzn.to/2uv4ipm
32 GB or larger microSD card - https://amzn.to/2NpiSWg (not necessary if included in the kit)
32 GB of larger flash drive - https://amzn.to/2LjEXIw
Keyboard/Mouse
HDMI monitor
Your computer

Step 1: Transfer music from your home computer to a flash drive
Step 2: Copy music from the flash drive to the Pi.
Step 3: Install Raspbian OS, connect to the internet, and install Plex Media Server
Step 4: Access PLEX User Interface [YOUR.IP.ADDRESS.HERE]:32400/web/ or from the Pi Desktop localhost:32400/web/
Step 5: Enable and authorize PLEX Skill for Alexa
Step 6: Say, "Alexa, open My Media."

A few months ago, Amazon has discontinued their Music storage program which prevents me from uploading new MP3 music to be played on my Alexa devices. Music purchased from Amazon can be played from Alexa (no changes).

Download Raspbian Stretch - https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/
In the video, I am using version 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch.zip
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-04-19/

Official Raspberry Pi site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/
Etcher - https://etcher.io/
Install Plex Media Server - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/raspberry-pi-plex-media-server/
Plex Alexa Skill - https://amzn.to/2mqV1Kg

Disclaimers:
No multi-room music
Raspberry Pi must be powered on and online to stream music.

If you don't have a Raspberry Pi, you can use your current computer, or an older computer.

Видео How to Play Your MP3 Music on Alexa with PLEX Full Tutorial канала Caroline Dunn