Soundbox on Alexa
How to enable the Soundbox internet radio skill on Alexa and link it to your own station library.
Enable the skill
Open the Alexa app, search for Soundbox, and enable it. Choose Link Account and sign in with your Soundbox account. Alexa then plays the stations in that library.
Soundbox is free to use and does not add advertising of its own. Individual stations may still carry their own advertising. Create a Soundbox account on this site, add stations by name or paste a stream address, and they are on Alexa straight away.
What you can say
Ask for a station by name: “Alexa, ask Soundbox to play Radio Paradise”. Ask for a radio mode instead and Soundbox chooses: Smart Radio, Morning Radio, Night Radio, Local Radio, Favorites Radio, Ordered Radio, Explore Radio.
While a station is playing you can say next station, what is playing, save this song, what is saved, play this more, or play this less.
In your language
Soundbox answers in the language of the device that asked. Ask a German Echo for Morgenradio and it replies in German.
Station names stay as you wrote them, so a library built in one language works on a device set to another.
Home Assistant
Soundbox plays through Home Assistant as well, on any media player it controls. The integration is installed through HACS and signs in to the same Soundbox account.
If you run a station
Station names people have saved were sent to Amazon so that asking for one by name reaches it. Only names — never stream addresses, and never anything about who listens.
If you run a station and would rather it were not listed, ask and it will be removed.