You can get some instruction from Alexa itself:

Alexa, ask ducky media for help.

You can play or shuffle albums, artists, and individual songs on Alexa. Here are some basic prompts:

Alexa, tell ducky media to play the album Graceland by Paul Simon.
Alexa, tell ducky media to play songs by St. Vincent.
Alexa, tell ducky media to play the song "16 Carriages".

You can opt to shuffle songs by an album or artist:

Alexa, tell ducky media to shuffle songs by Melvins.

Alexa, next.
Alexa, previous.
Alexa, pause.
Alexa, resume.
Alexa, restart.
Alexa, repeat on.
Alexa, repeat off.
Alexa, shuffle on.
Alexa, shuffle off.

Unusual spellings, foreign words, or "clever" phrases can be a problem for Alexa. You can use the Library page in the Ducky Media app to change the names of songs, artists, or albums to something that is easier to say or hear. Changing titles in the App only affects Ducky, it doesn't change any information in your media files or other applications like iTunes. You can also easily undo any changes that you make.

Unfortunately, no.

Not at this time, though we would consider adding this capability if there's interest. Send us feedback!

You use the Ducky Media App on a compatible Mac. When you install the app, you tell it which folders contain your media files. If your account is in good standing and has the necessary space, any compatible files are uploaded to your account automatically.

Yes, up to the allowed limits for your account.

Visit the "Library" page in the the Ducky Media App on a compatible Mac. There you can remove tracks or whole albums from your account.

Gross

You can access ducky from any Alexa speaker. This includes Amazon-branded Alexa devices like Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show.

You can also use the Alexa app on compatible computers and mobile devices. Note however that these devices must be able to play your media format natively. If you can't play your media file on your phone, you won't be able to play it from Alexa either. For most late-model mobile devices running standard software, this won't be a problem.

You need any Apple Silicon Mac running MacOs Sonoma or later (>= MacOs 14).

We currently support MP4 with AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis audio files up to 50Mb. MP4 with ALAC ("Apple Lossless") is partially supported; files will be transcoded to AAC during upload.

If you're a subscriber and interested in other formats, send us feedback!.

Not at this time, sorry.

Not at this time, no. If you are trying to stream on an Apple device, you _can_ use the Alexa App if it available in the Apple App Store for your model.

A Basic-tier Ducky subscription gets you 50Gb of total storage.

You will not be able to add more media to your library without first deleting something. You use the Media App on your mac to remove entries from your library.

You are not limited to any particular number or devices, but you are limited in streaming minutes per day. See the next question.

A Basic-tier Ducky subscription accrues 240 minutes (4 hours) of streaming time every day. Streaming minutes roll over from one day to the next, up to a maximum of 30 days (120 hours) of total streaming time. So if you don't use any of your minutes on one day, you can use those minutes on the next day.

No.