# Musicpi and mopidy, which one to choose?
**URL:** https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicpi-and-mopidy-which-one-to-choose/1111
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)
**Created:** [February 13, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicpi-and-mopidy-which-one-to-choose/1111 "2016-02-13T23:43:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@skatun](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/skatun)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicpi-and-mopidy-which-one-to-choose/1111/1 "2016-02-13T23:43:04Z")
Hi
So I am new to musicbox and I really like it so far. So I have been a huge spotify fan from the beginning and I love to listen to music. Lately I have gotton into home automation as well, where I have amazon Alexa ( Voice commands) to control my home. So here it goes what I would like to achieve.
I want to tell alexa “trigger playlist Rock” and then she will start that playlist on spotify. So to do this I need to be able to run a command line command to start that playlist. What is the command for that? Or the best is if I could use the [mpd binding](https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Mpd-Binding) for openhab, however it seems like it does not support playlist commands.
Then what will be really smooth, would be if I could use alexa to search for artist and find it on spotify, but I have no Idea how to achieve this:)
My final question, whats the benefit of the music pi GUI over spotify GUI? Well to put it short if I can not get alexa to search for artist I could just use mopidy(command line tool or?) to play playlist and then use spotify and chromecat/chrome audio (as I do today) if I first need to start up my phone/laptop to search for artist? Does the musicbox has some cool features that spotify does not have? Something I am missing?
And thoughts on setup would be highly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Lambert](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Steve_Lambert)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicpi-and-mopidy-which-one-to-choose/1111/2 "2016-02-14T08:33:28Z")
Can you use MPC? For IR control I use **mpc load “Your Playlist Name Here”;mpc shuffle;mpc play**
There is a search facility but I’ve never tried it.
More on MPC[here](http://linux.die.net/man/1/mpc)
There might be some useful information on [Steven Hicksons Voice Command site](http://stevenhickson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/piauisuite-update-and-voicecommand-v31.html)
Be interested to hear how you get on with voice commands.
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### Author:  [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicpi-and-mopidy-which-one-to-choose/1111/3 "2026-02-19T11:47:32Z")