How do you play MP3s on Echo devices?

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Does anyone have an idea of how to play an MP3 on an Amazon Echo device? This has been discussed only very cursively here. I have Sonos and GH also, but the majority of my voice assistants through out the house are Amazon Echo devices. I have various sound snippets and recordings in MP3 format that I want to play as a result of events. I am not looking to play music.

I've tried rule machine with no luck. I've used echo speaks but it does not seem to play an mp3. I've based mp3's on a local LAN webserver and also provided them access from the cloud via https in case that was my issue.

Any ideas?

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Not a 'local solution', but here is something I found with a quick Google search...

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I had watched that. The downside is that it announces on the device "Playing the dog barking MP3" and then it plays it. I had heard that it was possible to play an mp3 if you had it on a public server URL. I tried this with rule machine, but was unable to make it work.

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One of the comments says how to stop this.

In the settings of your "My Pod" account your are able to select: "Don't read the title before playing."

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