I am a little confused. I do not have Prime Music Unlimited. Is the membership you are talking about just for sleep sounds, or for Prime Unlimited?

ETA: I have figured it out. The Sleep Sounds Premium Membership is a separate membership and is a one time lifetime fee for the next couple of days. I decided to go for it.

 

I have the highly rated Letro Fan machine that has a variety of sounds on it.  I like it because it will play a continuous loop of the sound you select until you turn it off.  Not clear to me that Sleep Sounds will let one do that.  If not, I suppose you could string together a number of sounds to last all night.

EDIT to add:  I explored a little further and it seems Sleep Sounds will allow a continuous loop. 

 

Yes, Sleep Sounds is separate from Amazon Music.  And yes, Sleep Sounds runs continuously until you turn it off. 

I've been e-mailing with Jeff Bolton this morning.  Very responsive. 

I * love * Sleep Sounds.  It's my kinda thing.    Well worth the current one-time lifetime $14.95 charge.

 

One time I asked for soothing nature sounds before I knew how to set a sleep timer. I woke up to the sound of rushing water. At first I thought the toilet was running but it was way louder than that. Then I thought a pipe had burst inside the walls.

I started yelling for my grandson and he came running in. When I explained what I'd heard, he laughed and said, "Alexa, stop." It was a waterfall sound.

My only excuse is that I'd been woken out of a sound sleep.

I don't think I'll be trying any nature sounds anytime soon.

 

Exploding volcanoes and charging elephants are, after all "nature sounds".

 

Exploding volcanoes and charging elephants are, after all "nature sounds".

True!

 

So how do I set Sleep Sounds to play for a determined time and then shut off? I don't need to wake up in the middle of the night to whale sounds.

 

So how do I set Sleep Sounds to play for a determined time and then shut off? I don't need to wake up in the middle of the night to whale sounds.

For Sleep Sounds, for music, for anything -- say "Set sleep timer for X hours / minutes." Make sure she confirms something about stop playing in X hours / minutes. If not, timer will go off in the middle of the night which happened to me.

 

Exploding volcanoes and charging elephants are, after all "nature sounds".

Elephants?!

 

I purchased the lifetime membership today and it was $19.99 - still a very good deal IMHO

 

I purchased the lifetime membership today and it was $19.99 - still a very good deal IMHO

 

For a few days when I request Seaside sound on Sleep Sounds, I get reply, "I don't know how to play that sound."  Before I contact either Jeff Bolton or Amazon, I'd like to know if anyone else is having a problem with that particular sound?

 

I just tried it and it played. I said "Open Sleep Sounds" and then "Play Seaside". Did you phrase it differently perhaps?

 

I just tried it and it played. I said "Open Sleep Sounds" and then "Play Seaside". Did you phrase it differently perhaps?

This is ridiculous on whose part? Some place in Jeff Bolton's instructions he said to say, "Open Sleep Sounds and play [sound]." Not having to say, "Open Sleep Sounds," and wait for reply and then make request for particular sound. That is what I do. It works for other sounds I've played and has worked for Seaside previously, but not in the past few days. I just tried the two requests separately -- it worked.

Thanks.

 

This is ridiculous on whose part? Some place in Jeff Bolton's instructions he said to say, "Open Sleep Sounds and play [sound]." Not having to say, "Open Sleep Sounds," and wait for reply and then make request for particular sound. That is what I do. It works for other sounds I've played and has worked for Seaside previously, but not in the past few days. I just tried the two requests separately -- it worked.

Thanks.

I think I did it the way I did because I completely forgot there was a quicker way to do it! Thanks for reminding me, and I'm glad you have Seaside working again.

 

Will it work on Alexa that’s on the Kindle fire?


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Will it work on Alexa that's on the Kindle fire?

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No, Alexa herself is not on a tablet, phone, computer. The Alexa app which in many ways controls Alexa is on those devices. You need an actual Echo, Dot, Tap to hear sounds.

 

Will it work on Alexa that's on the Kindle fire?

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I just enabled and tried this app on my Fire HD 8 (7th Generation) and asked it to play "Vacuum". It works. Reminds me of the days the vacuum cleaner used to put my (then very tiny) kids to sleep!

Haha... I just got my phone to do it, too. I can access Alexa through the Amazon app there.

 

No, Alexa herself is not on a tablet, phone, computer. The Alexa app which in many ways controls Alexa is on those devices. You need an actual Echo, Dot, Tap to hear sounds.

I'm not sure that's true. I don't use Alexa/Echo at all but my understanding is that the newest Fire table has "Alexa" in and of itself -- not just an app that lets you control the other devices.

 

I don't use Alexa/Echo at all but my understanding is that the newest Fire table has "Alexa" in and of itself -- not just an app that lets you control the other devices.

You're correct, Ann. Alexa can be accessed on 4th generation and newer Fire tablets by holding down the round "home" button. More information can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202083830.

Sleep Sounds does work on those Fire tablets.