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3 nights ago at about 1am my Alexa started blasting heavy metal music at 1am.

I unplugged it and am not too sure about plugging it back in.

Someone, maybe a family member, has an Spotify account connected to Alexa, and chose your Echo device as output

I accidentally did this to a vacation home we stayed in once, like weeks after we checked out. It took me a solid minute to piece together 'where the music was going'. I felt so bad; hopefully the house was vacant.

About a month or two ago Alexa started telling us it didn't understand "stop" while it played the audio we didn't ask for (Alexa's voice recognition is really poor). I had to unplug it.

I probably could have used the app to stop it but I didn't think about that at the time.

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