APL support coming soon!

You will soon be able to navigate your playlists and links straight from your Echo device with a screen, including Fire TV!

Bug Fixes

Lots of minor fixes and performance improvements.

Cloud Drive Folder Import

By default My Pod will not import your links from your cloud drive folders (Amazon drive, Google Drive) as links in to your playlists. This allows for full support for sorting and shuffling. You can disable this behaviour by visiting your account settings.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Playback Error Logging

Playback error messages from the Echo application are now displayed in your account history.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Library Update

All libraries and frameworks completely updated.

Links

Better link layout with full edit support. You can now edit an existing link.

API

Integrate My Pod with other products and services! You can now use our API to manage yur Playlists and Links!

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

Various bug fixes.

UI Tweaks

Improved playlist popular link layout.

Minor Bug Fixes

Bug fixes related to ad delivery and subscription submission.

Episode Detection

Improved episode detection when asking for a specific episode e.g. 'Alexa, ask My Pod to play episode 1471 of joe rogan.'.

Web Reader Improvements

Listen to most web pages with My Pod. Simply paste a link in to My Pod and My Pod will try and extract the main article and read it with Alexa!

UI Tweaks

Minor site tweaks.

Minor updates

Minor library updates including German translation fix.

WAV File Bug Fix

Better detection for .wav file content.

Google Drive Single File Bug Fix

Support multiple content types for single Google Drive links.

Amazon Drive Bug Fix

Multi region bug fix for Amazon Drive.

Winter update - Part 3!

Amazon Drive support - You can now play your content stored on Amazon Drive through your Alexa device! Simply share your file or folder and paste the link in to My Pod.

Winter update - Part 2!

Better Dropbox support - Streaming from Dropbox has been improved with support for folders (Maximum of 30 files per folder due to Dropbox limitations).

Bug Fixes

Subscription update bug fix.

Winter update - Part 1!

Part one of a number of enhancements, new features and fixes. This update includes a new simplified look for the website and a new logo!

Use My Pod with Alexa Routines!

Amazon have just rolled out an update to the Alexa app (currently US users only) which enables you to launch a skill using an Alexa routine. Now you can set a default Playlist and / or Link when you launch My Pod. So you can automatically start your favourite playlist or link as part of a bedtime routine for example. Auto-play can be set up in your account settings page. Once set you can simply say 'Alexa, open My Pod.' to start playing!

Various Bug Fixes and Improvements.

New Short Url Feature!

Now you can quickly share links and play them through your Alexa app or Echo. Simply go to the shorten link page and paste a link and share it or ask Alexa to play it straight away!

RSS Fix

Workaround for some RSS hosting providers with Bot detection.

Google Drive

Support for additional link formats.

Billing

Minor enhancements.

Shuffling

New shuffling algorithm for playlists and links.

Bug Fixes

Minor site bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes for RSS feeds with multiple content and web search bar.

New Search Facility

As well as the usual search facility when adding a link, there is now a site wide search option available in the site navigation bar.

Audio only option for video content

New setting to force video content to always play audio instead of audio and video on devices with a a screen. See here. This is useful to get around the limitations of the Alexa video player which cannot currently play concurrent videos from a playlist for example.

Bug fixes

Various fixes.

Video support

Video streams are now supported by My Pod. Turn your Echo Show, Echo Dot or video enabled Echo device in to a video player! Simply add a supported video link or video podcast to your My Pod playlist and watch it through your Echo. See the FAQ for more information, including which formats are supported. Should you have an Echo without a screen, then you can still listen to the audio from the video, for example with TV news feeds etc.

Italian region is now live

A warm welcome to our Italian users as My Pod - 'Mia Lista' is now available on amazon.it! A huge thank you to Vince for his exceptional Italian translation service. He comes highly recommended and can be found here should you wish to hire him.

RSS Images

Better handling for invalid RSS images.

Bug fixes

User-Agent header fix.
Better content detection in RSS feeds.

Bug fixes

Site stability bug fixes. Soundcloud non-TLS link workaround.

Bug fixes and UX Improvements

Various bug fixes and user experience improvements.

Upcoming language support

New translations will be available shortly. This update includes preliminary support and multi-region podcast search.

Better link and playlist name matching

My Pod will now try to best-guess the link or playlist if Alexa does not hear you properly. If you wish to switch this function off, please visit the My Account page.

Playlists resume

Playlists will now automatically start from the beginning. If you want to resume your playlist from the last played link, enable the option in My Account page.

Bug fixes

Various bug fixes.

Bug fixes

Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Introducing My Pod storage

Now it's even easier to play your files through your Echo. Upload your files straight to My Pod and play them instantly!

Streamlined experience

Easily add, remove and update links without leaving the page.

Support My Pod

Help to support My Pod and get extra links, playlists and lots more, check out our subscriptions.

Website Refresh

The My Pod site has been refreshed with an improved look, better graphics and styles.

Account Deletion

Should you wish to delete you account and all associated data with it, you can now do so via the My Account page.

See what you have played recently

You can now view what you have played recently as well as what Alexa heard you ask for, on your My Pod home page.

Better episode number detection

Enhanced detection of episode number in podcast feeds.

Ask for specific episode or series!

You can now ask My Pod for a specific track, episode or series simply by asking. Some examples:

Say:

"Alexa, ask My Pod to play episode <episode number> of <link name>."

Say:

"Alexa, ask My Pod to play series <series number> episode <episode number> of <link name>."

Say:

"Alexa, ask My Pod to play <episode name> in <link name>."

Set link and playlist play behaviour

You can now ask My Pod to set the play mode for both links and playlists. Simply ask: "Alexa, ask My Pod to set the link play mode to <play mode>." or "Alexa, ask My Pod to set the playlist play mode to [play mode].". You can chose either 'Continue', 'Repeat' or 'Stop'.

Play the latest episode of a podcast

"Alexa, ask My Pod to play the latest episode of <episode name>

Play the oldest episode of a podcast

"Alexa, ask My Pod to play the oldest episode of <episode name>

New account setting - Don't automatically search for podcasts or public links

Should you wish to disable the automatic podcast search, you can now turn this option off in your account settings. See the My Account page.

Play any iTunes or My Pod Public links!

My Pod will now automatically search for any podcasts in the iTunes podcast directory if it cannot find a matching link in your account. Simply ask in the normal way: "Alexa, ask My Pod to play [Podcast Name].".

Error pages

Better error pages.

Link bug fixes

Occasional link errors now fixed.

More obvious re-ordering

Simply click on the re-order icon and drag your playlists or links to change their order.

Playlist and link playback options

You can now change the behaviour of playback for links and playlists in order to specify whether to continue, stop or repeat. See the My Account page.

Google Drive Links

Improved link handling for shared links.

Google Drive Folders

Now supports hundreds of files per folder link.

Resume

Links that have multiple content, such as Google Drive folder should now resume from the last played item.

RSS Bug Fix

Some RSS feeds would skip every other episode. This is now resolved.

Invalid RSS

Improvements to handle badly formed RSS feeds.

Spaces in URL's

Spaces will now be escaped when adding URL's.

Home & Smart feature for our German Users!

My Pod has been featured as skill of the week on the German Home & Smart Tech site! Please click here to read it.

Link title announcements

You can now prevent Alexa from reading out the link / title name before playing any audio by visiting the My Account page.

Start Podcasts / RSS feeds from the oldest episode

You can now switch My Pod to play the oldest episode in a feed first by visiting the My Account page.

Shuffling

You can now enable shuffling by asking Alexa to turn on shuffling whilst audio is playing e.g.

"Alexa, shuffle on."

Better Playlist name recognition

Alexa will now prompt you for the Playlist name if she doesn't understand what you said the first time.

Re-order Playlists or Links

You can now re-order your playlists or links by simply dragging them up or down.