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I'd love to see subsonic have Alexa integration. This would be a great feature that I think alot of the users could benefit from.

Could you explain what benefits users would have from Alexa integration?

Basically it would give voice control to searching and playing playlists, albums, songs, and have it play through any Alexa device like Fire TV/Stick, Echoes and Taps, and Fire tablets.

I've looked into this and the biggest issue is that Alexa requires at a minimum, Oauth security, so the simple security of the Subsonic server isn't compatible and someone would need to write a wrapper (that would effectively have to store passwords). Also I do not know if, once past that issue, Alexa security requires a authenticated-signed HTTPS server/cert or not. I do know the Fire TV/Stick will NOT accept self-signed certs at all and there's no way to side-load them into the cert store. Alexa may be the same way.

Other than dealing with OAuth security, beyond that it is a simple app and would just use the API for the rest.

ya that would be pretty awesome! im sure there would be a way to have hooks in the web console to hook into alexa as a plugin on the amazon side of things.