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Let's celebrate Alexa's birthday with an update on the new features she recently brought u.s. to enjoy music on our Amazon Echos. We tin finally motion the music we're listening to from room to room and even have it outdoors. Amazon Music Unlimited Spatial Audio (3D Sound) is now supported on all headphones, and Alexa volition adjust her speaking book to the ambient dissonance at our home.

In this post, nosotros will look into all the Alexa music commands to relish all the music services supported by our Amazon Echos. We will comprehend bones book and playback commands, as well equally tips and tricks on how to manage and mind to your favorite music. You'll notice commands for setting sleep timers and music alarms. And, you lot will create your very own music commands with Alexa routines.

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2. Would you lot like to see which Alexa music control works for which service? Take a look at our "Alexa Music Commands Jump Table", which gives yous an overview of all Alexa Music features across all Music services. Simply tap on the colored boxes to bound direct to the music commands you're interested in. Swipe or tap back to return to the table.
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Tabular array of contents

• Alexa'due south Music Services
  • Amazon's Music Services
    • Amazon Music Free (ad-supported)
    • Amazon Music Prime
    • Amazon Music Unlimited (includes now HD and 3D content)
  • Apple Music
  • Spotify's Music Services
    • Spotify Free (ad-supported)
    • Spotify Premium
  • Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services
• How to set upward Alexa Music Services?
  • How to Link a Music Service?
  • How to set your Favorite Music Service as the Default?
• Alexa's Music Commands Bound Tabular array
• How to control Alexa's Music Book?
• How to let Alexa whisper?
• How to allow Alexa automatically adjust her Speaking Volume?
• How to brand Alexa speak faster/slower?
• How to follow an Creative person with Alexa?
• How to control Alexa's Music Playback?
• How to control Alexa'southward Equalizer?
• How to navigate Alexa's Music Library?
  • How to play Music by Title/Album/Creative person?
  • How to play Music past Genre?
  • How to play Music by Activity and Mood?
  • How to combine Moods, Activities, and Genres in Music Commands?
  • How to play HD and Ultra HD music?
  • How to play New Music?
  • How to play Popular/Regional Music?
  • How to play something you rarely hear?
  • How to play something we already heard?
  • How to track the songs we mind to in Google Sheets with IFTTT
  • How to observe out which Playlist/Station Alexa is currently playing?
  • How to play Similar Music?
  • How to play Favorites and how to like/dislike Songs?
  • How to play Songs by Lyrics?
• How to control your Music Library and Playlists?
• How to listen to Alexa's Radio Stations?
• How to ask for Music Information?
  • How to let Alexa announce every song?
• How to get the "right" version of a song?
  • 1. Try to notice the "right" song past vocalisation
  • 2. Find the "right" song with the music app
  • 3. Play the "correct" song with voice from your library
• How to Listen To Podcasts?
  • TuneIn Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • Apple tree Podcasts
  • Amazon Music Podcasts
  • Setting the Default Podcast Service
  • Alexa's Podcast Skills
• How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker?
  • Smart Abode Groups
  • Multi-Room Music
  • Sound System
• How to move music wherever we go?
• What is the Preferred Speaker Set up-Up?
• How to set a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?
• How to Create Your Own Music Commands With Alexa Routines?
  • Creating a Simple Alexa Routine with Voice
  • Editing our Simple Alexa Routine in the Alexa App
  • Creating an Alexa Routine from Scratch: "Alexa, it'southward Dinner Fourth dimension!"
• What songs can Alexa sing?
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Alexa'south Music Services

Alexa supports many music services: Amazon Music, Apple Music and Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Pandora, Deezer, SiriusXM, Tidal, and Vevo.

Depending on your location, you might detect other music services in your Alexa app.

Please note, following services are not available in the U.K.: Pandora, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, and Tidal. (Cheers Brantome!)

Amazon's Music Services

If you are an Amazon Prime member, you'll start with Amazon Music Prime, which is included in your Prime number subscription. If non, you'll find Amazon'south Free ad-supported music service. If you don't like ads or find that two million songs aren't plenty, you can subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited with more than 75 one thousand thousand songs. This music service now includes loftier-quality streaming audio with over 75 million songs in Hd and vii million songs in Ultra HD, at no actress price.

No subscription or credit carte du jour required, Amazon'south gratuitous, ad-supported Amazon Music service is currently available in the U.S., U.K., and Federal republic of germany (Thanks, Brantome!). You can listen to top lists and thousands of stations on your Amazon Echos, the Amazon Music app on your smartphone, FireTV, and the web. In other countries, the command "Alexa, play some music" will enable xiv costless days of Amazon Music Unlimited. From fourth dimension to time, Amazon provides free Amazon Music Unlimited trials for xxx days or 3 months. After the trial menses, your subscription renews automatically until canceled.

Amazon Music Prime number

Amazon Music Prime number is included in your Prime subscription and has – similar the ad-supported complimentary tier – a limited music library with well-nigh 2 Million songs. It'southward ad-free but lacks some features compared to Amazon Music Unlimited, like playing songs by lyrics and access to all new songs.

U.S.: Amazon Prime number Musicxxx-day Complimentary Trial (+Prime, +Prime number Video)
U.K.: Amazon Prime Music30-24-hour interval Free Trial (+Prime, +Prime Video)

Amazon Music Unlimited (includes now Hard disk drive and 3D content)

Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon's native, and therefore most extensive music service for your Amazon Echos. Hither we can look into all the music commands which Alexa understands. Other music services will only provide a subset.

With over 75 million songs, yous can pick between the cheaper "Single-Device Programme" to listen simply on one single Amazon Echo device, the "Individual plan" to mind to one music stream on all of your Echo devices, or the "Family programme" to heed to up to 6 different music streams on all your Echo devices. If yous're a student currently enrolled in a degree-granting college or university, yous tin register for the "Educatee plan" (l% off).

As of May 17th, 2021, Amazon Music Unlimited includes the content of Amazon Music Hard disk at no extra price. With over 75 million songs in Loftier Definition (Hard disk drive), about double the bitrate of other music services, we tin listen to music in CD quality. Information technology as well includes over 7 million songs in Ultra Hard disk (UHD), which is up to 10 times the bitrate of other music services (better than CD quality).

Delight note that you will need a fast net connection (1.five Mbps or college), a device that supports 16-fleck/44.1 kHz or higher (like an iPhone 5s or later on), and wired headphones or speakers that back up a dynamic range of 20kHz+ for HD or 40 kHz+ for Ultra Hard disk.

Alexa-enabled Echo devices (2nd generation and later), Burn TVs, and Fire Tablets all support HD quality audio. The Repeat Studio, Echo Link, and Echo Amp support Ultra HD quality audio.

Amazons HD and Ultra HD preferred brands include: Echo Studio, Denon, marantz, polk, Definitive Engineering science, Klitsch, Sound R|evolution, Sonos, Bose, Sony, Pioneer, Onkyo, Martin Logan, McIntosh, Sennheiser, Arcam, Sonus faber, Integra, Fusion, Bluesound, phorus, Anthem, Elite, aerix, audiolab, Paradigm, Control 4, Rotel, wren, and Soundcast.

Alexa Music Commands Early 2021 – Amazon Music Unlimited includes at present Amazon Music HD at no extra cost!

With the latest update, spatial audio – aka 3D Audio – is now supported for playback through the iOS or Android Amazon Music app with whatsoever headphones. We can cast music from whatsoever source to select smart speakers, such as the Echo Studio, Sony SRS-RA3000, and Sony SRS-RA5000. You tin detect Amazon's Music Unlimited Hard disk drive FAQ hither.

U.Southward.: Amazon Music Unlimitedxxx days Gratuitous trial – New subscribers only. Terms utilise.
U.One thousand.: Amazon Music Unlimited30 days Complimentary trial – New subscribers merely. Terms employ.

Apple Music

Apple tree Music also provides over 75 million songs. Y'all can pick between an "Individual plan" or a "Family program" for upward to half-dozen people. If you lot're a college student, you can subscribe to the Student programme (50% off).

You tin listen to Apple Music across all your Apple tree devices and Amazon Echos. It includes many local live radio stations effectually the world. You lot can enjoy Apple Music on your Apple Watch when y'all are abroad from your iPhone or in your machine with CarPlay. Apple offers free Apple Music trials from 30 days to 3 months.

With Alexa, you lot won't be able to tag your favorites in Apple Music, search for songs by lyrics or play similar music. You lot'll miss some features where Siri could help.

Spotify's Music Services

Spotify supports Spotify Free, an ad-supported tier. For advertizement-free music, you can subscribe to Spotify Premium, available as Individual, Duo, Family, and Student plans. All Spotify services can also stream the music directly from the Spotify app on your smartphone to any Amazon Echo device, FireTV, or Alexa multi-room music group through Spotify Connect. (Thanks Brantome!)

Amazingly, you have access to over 50 million songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, that is, if you tin can live with ads in your listening feel. Y'all can download songs for up to fourteen days for offline listening. Spotify Costless works with Alexa in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany,  Austria, India, Italy, Ireland, Nippon, Mexico, New Zealand, Kingdom of spain, the U.K., and the U.S. (Cheers, Brantome!)

Spotify Premium

Spotify Premium has over 50 Million songs in its library, this time without advertizement interruptions. You lot can prepare the audio quality to very loftier (up to 320 kbit/due south) and download songs to listen to without an internet connection.

You can choice between "Premium Individual" for one person, "Premium Duo" for two people living together for i discounted toll, and "Premium Family" for upwards to 6 people living together. If y'all're currently enrolled at an accredited college or university, you tin get fifty% off a Premium subscription with the Premium Student plan.

You won't be able to tag your favorites with Alexa. However, if there is a playlist on Spotify, fifty-fifty for activities and moods, y'all can admission information technology with Alexa.

Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services

Since those are radio-similar services, y'all'll find limitations around music playback control and selecting specific music.

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How to set Alexa Music Services?

Alexa's music service setup is basically a two-footstep procedure. Get-go, we demand to link all the music services we'd like to use. And so we need to define which service should be our default for music and creative person and genre stations.

How to Link a Music Service?

To link a music service:

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' push button
2. Select "Settings" and and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service," and so on the music service you'd like to link.
4. Tap on "Enable to use" and enter the music service account information.
5. Tap Done

You tin now apply all the music services you've linked, simply by calculation the service to your request:

• Alexa, play music on Spotify
• Alexa, play music on Apple tree Music
• Alexa, play music on Amazon Music
• Alexa, play a jazz station on Spotify

Alexa App: Link New Service and Default Services

How to set your Favorite Music Service equally the Default?

To set your favorite default service for music:

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' button.
2. Select "Settings" and then "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Default Services" and then on "Modify" in the Music section.
4. Tap on your favorite Music service.

Now we tin can leave out the music service and just have to say:

• Alexa, play music

and she'll play it from our favorite music service. Echo the process to prepare your favorite music service for artist and genre stations:

• Alexa, play a <genre> station
• Alexa, play a <artist> station

Alexa's Music Commands Spring Tabular array

This is an overview of all the Alexa Music features beyond selected Alexa Music services. The colored boxes indicate whether a feature is supported for a music service. You can tap on the colored boxes to jump direct to the music commands you're interested in.

🟥 not supported 🟧 kind of supported 🟩 fully supported tap for more than information	Amazon Music Unlimited	Amazon Prime	Amazon Free	Apple Music	Spotify Premium	Spotify Costless	Pandora	TuneIn	iHeartRadio
Decision-making the Volume	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩
Controlling the Playback	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Controlling Echos's Equalizer	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩
Navigating the Music Database
Playing by Title/Album/Artist	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟧
Playing past Genre	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟥	🟥
Playing Activity and Mood Music	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Combining Mood, Activities and Genres	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing New Music	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing Pop/Regional Music	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing something you rarely hear	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing something yous've heard	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing similar music	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Favorites and Like/Dislike	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟧	🟥	🟧
Playing by lyrics	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Managing your library and playlists	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Listening to radio stations	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟩
Getting Music Information	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥
Let Alexa denote every vocal	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Manage and Listen to Podcasts	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟩	🟧
Controlling Music on another Speaker	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩
Setting a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧

Notation, if y'all have not set your preferred service as default music service in the Alexa app, make sure to add "…from Prime number Music", "… on Spotify", "…on TuneIn", etc. at the finish of your Alexa music commands.

Pro-Tip: Bank check out this pro discussion about different Alexa music services on reddit . (Cheers a lot Brantome!)

How to control Alexa'south Music Book?

Following music commands volition change Alexa's volume in 10% steps:

• Alexa, (modify/make/turn the) volume upwardly/down
• Alexa (brand information technology) softer/louder
• Alexa, lower/heighten (the) book
• Alexa, increment/decrease (the) book
• Alexa, turn/crank it up/down

Another way to specifically ready the book level is:

• Alexa, (prepare the) volume (to level) <ane-10>
• Alexa, volume three (Note, that's the snappy, short command)

Furthermore, we can mute Alexa:

• Alexa, mute/unmute

If you have configured Smart Home Groups or Multi-Room Music groups, you can control the volume of multiple Echos:

• Alexa, book iii (in the) <group>

A group could be a room (kitchen, bedroom, …) with multiple Echos or multiple rooms with multiple Echos (downstairs, upstairs, …).

🟩 Controlling the Volume is an Alexa characteristic and bachelor for all music services.

Note: (Thanks, Cindy!) With the volume commands to a higher place, e.k., "Alexa, volume up/downward" or "Alexa, volume 1-10," nosotros control Alexa's voice book and the Music/Media volume simultaneously. Some music services, flash briefings, etc., do not provide their audio at the same volume (normalized). Whenever we change their book, nosotros also change the volume of Alexas voice.

How to let Alexa whisper?

Sometimes, it feels more appropriate to have Alexa whisper dorsum, rather than waking upwards everybody:

• Alexa, plow Whisper Mode on

Pssst, from now on, when y'all whisper a command, she'll whisper back, unless you lot command:

• Alexa, turn Whisper Mode off

🟩 Whisper Style is an Alexa characteristic and bachelor for all music services.

How to allow Alexa automatically adjust her Speaking Volume?

U.Southward. only 🇺🇸: In a noisy environment, Alexa tin can accommodate her voice to the background racket in our habitation. To make sure that we always hear Alexa's response, even effectually noisy kids, barking dogs or when taking a shower, we but need to say:

• Alexa, turn on Adaptive Volume

🟩 Adaptive Book is an Alexa feature and available for all music services.

How to make Alexa speak faster/slower?

We can adapt Alexa'due south speaking rate past maxim:

• Alexa, speak faster (Note, upwards to four times faster)
• Alexa, speak slower (Annotation, upward to two times slower)

To reset Alexas speaking charge per unit, we merely need to say:

• Alexa, speak at your default rate

How to follow an Creative person with Alexa?

Never miss a new release from your favorite artist by saying:

• Alexa, follow <artist>
• Alexa, follow this artist (Note, this comes handy if yous're listening to music and do non know the creative person's name)
• Alexa, let me know when this creative person releases a new anthology

Alexa will then ship you a notification (yellow color indicator). Cheque them by asking:

• Alexa, what did I miss?
• Alexa, check my notifications
• Alexa, read/play my messages

If you'd similar to end receiving those notifications:

• Alexa, unfollow <creative person>
• Alexa, end following <artist>

How to control Alexa'due south Music Playback?

You can stop and resume playback by saying:

• Alexa, play/resume (music)
• Alexa, stop/pause

But you tin can also play some music you might like:

• Alexa, play some music
• Alexa, what should I play? (Note, on an Echo Show this volition simply display a station, merely say: "Alexa, play that" later on)

If you would like to become some help from Alexa:

• Alexa, assist me discover a playlist
• Alexa, aid me find a holiday playlist

And she will inquire you different questions and play previews to notice the right playlist for you lot.

To navigate within an anthology or playlist, just say:

• Alexa, next/previous (song/track/title)
• Alexa, skip (this vocal)

To navigate within a vocal, you can say:

• Alexa, play (this song) from (the) kickoff
• Alexa, restart (this song)
• Alexa, spring/skip back/forward (x seconds/minute(s))

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For shuffling, repeating a vocal and looping, we can employ:

• Alexa, echo (this vocal)
• Alexa, loop (this album/this playlist)
• Alexa, loop MY (proper name of the playlist) playlist (cheers, J Anne!)
• Alexa, loop mode on (thanks, J Anne!)
• Alexa, (turn) repeat (on/off) (Note, "off" will stop playback)
• Alexa, (turn) shuffle (on/off)

Another way to repeat/loop songs, albums, and artist stations, is past telling Alexa for how long she should play them (Thanks, Brantome!):

• Alexa, play (the song/album/artist/genre) <title/album/artist/genre> for x seconds/minutes/hours

Alexa will confirm that she volition play for the time specified.

🟧 Repeat mode currently does not piece of work for Apple Music and Spotify
🟥 Radio-similar services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing most music control features.

How to control Alexa's Blaster?

Amazon Echos support an equalizer to control the bass, mid-range, and treble of our Echo devices. Y'all can check the availability of this feature in the Alexa app under Options, your Echo device, sounds. If you notice an blaster setting at the tiptop of the page, the following commands will work.

• Alexa, increment/decrease (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, plough/crank upward/down (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, gear up (the) bass/mid-range/treble to minimum/maximum
• Alexa, set bass/mid-range/treble to (minus); Notation, we have a range of +/- 6 dB which we can set direct

To go back to neutral EQ settings, we tin can say:

• Alexa, reset (the) equalizer

🟩 Alexa's equalizer is an Alexa feature and available for all music services.

How to navigate Alexa'due south Music Library?

There are and so many ways that lead to your favorite music in the millions of songs that we need to structure this a flake …

How to play Music past Title/Album/Artist?

If you know what you want to hear, you can say:

• Alexa, play (the song/rails/title/tune) <title>
• Alexa, play/shuffle (the anthology/record) <anthology>
• Alexa, play/shuffle (songs/music by) <creative person>
• Alexa, play (the song/rails/championship/tune) <title> past <artist>
• Alexa, play (the album/tape) <album> by <creative person>

🟧 The "gratuitous" services Amazon Complimentary, Spotify Complimentary, and Amazon Music Prime will more often than not play a station with music like to what you've requested.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing these features. However, you can mostly request or create an "artist radio" station. For TuneIn, you demand to specify the radio station name.

We tin can as well jump directly to a rails number on an anthology (Thanks, David!):

• Alexa, play track <number> from the anthology <album name>

Alexa will ostend "playing the album …, starting with track number …"

• Create an iHeartRadio station based on <artist>
• Alexa, play <artist> radio on Pandora
• Alexa, play "ESPN Radio" on TuneIn

How to play Music past Genre?

• Alexa, play <genre> music

Hither are the master genres from Amazon'south database:

• Alternative & Indie
• Blues
• Broadway
• Children's Music
• Christian
• Classic Stone
• Classical
• Country
• Dance & Electronic
• Easy Listening
• Folk
• Gospel
• Difficult Rock & Metal
• Holiday
• International
• Jazz
• Latin
• New Age & Meditation
• Opera & Vocal
• Pop
• R&B
• Rap & Hip-Hop
• Stone
• Soundtracks
• Vocal
• World

🟧 With Pandora, it seems to be a hit or miss which genre station is played.
🟥 TuneIn and iHeartRadio merely support radio station names or callsigns.

How to play Music by Activity and Mood?

Alexa supposedly knows around 500 undocumented activities and moods, which you lot can use to play the music that fits what you are upward to. These are basically (curated) playlists created by Amazon for frequently requested activities/moods.

• Alexa, play music for <activity>
• Alexa, play (some) <activity/mood> music

Here are some activities, which nosotros've have tested (musically =):

• Wake Up
• Running / Jogging / Workout
• Party / Partying / Dancing
• Working / Study / Studying / Reading
• Cleaning / Cooking / Dinner
• Relaxing / Meditation / Arctic-out
• Love
• Sleeping

Here are some examples ofmoods, which Alexa understands:

• Angry
• Energetic
• Feel Good
• Happy
• Upbeat
• Sorry
• Mellow
• Romantic
• Relaxed
• Laid Back

🟧 The "free" services Amazon Complimentary, Prime number, and Spotify Free, volition mostly play a station similar to what you lot've requested.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to combine Moods, Activities, and Genres in Music Commands?

Now comes the interesting part: You can combine some moods, genres, and activities. Of form, merely if Amazon has created a playlist, which matches.

• Alexa, play mellow meditation music
• Alexa, play lamentable dejection music
• Alexa, play happy Latin music
• Alexa, play classical music for sleeping
• Alexa, play mellow state music

🟧 The "free" services Amazon Prime & Free will mostly play a station with music similar to what you've requested (vs. curated playlists with paid services).
🟥 Spotify Free is especially weak in finding combined stations.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.

How to play HD and Ultra Hard disk drive music?

Amazon Music always plays the best available audio quality that your device and network support. In almost cases, your music will automatically play in HD quality or improve.

The easiest way to observe HD and Ultra HD music is with the Amazon Music app. Songs and albums in Hard disk drive or Ultra HD have an "Hard disk" or "Ultra HD" icon. To play music on your Echo, connect to Alexa Bandage by tapping on the "Casting" icon on the "Now Playing" screen.

You can play Ultra Hard disk music on your Repeat Studio by requesting the Ultra HD playlists:

• Alexa, play the All-time of Ultra HD playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk Dance playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk drive Pop playlist
• Alexa, play the New in Ultra HD playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Chill playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Classic Rock playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hd Country playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Rock playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Latin playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Hip-Hop playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk Blues playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Jazz playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Alternative playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Folk playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD <artist> playlist

How to play New Music?

Want to hear some new songs? Hither'due south what to say:

• Alexa, play brand new music
• Alexa, recommend some new music (Annotation, on an Repeat Show, this will merely display a playlist, just say: "Alexa, play that")

With Amazon Music Unlimited we accept following additional commands:

• Alexa, play new <genre> music
• Alexa, play new songs by <creative person>

🟧 Amazon Free and Amazon Prime number Music have a express music library that does not include all new songs.
🟧 Apple tree Music, Spotify Free, and Premium don't support new genres and new creative person music. Nevertheless, you tin use your "New Music Mix" or your "Discover Weekly."
🟥 Radio-similar services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to play Popular/Regional Music?

Interested in what is trending someplace, quondam, some genre?

• Alexa, play the top/all-time songs
• Alexa, play the elevation/best songs from the 80s

With Amazon Music Unlimited we take following additional commands:

• Alexa, play the top songs in <city>
• Alexa, play what's hot in <country>
• Alexa, play the top/all-time <genre> songs from the 60s

🟧 Apple Music, Spotify Gratis, and Premium don't back up countries, locations, or a combination of genre and decade.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to play something y'all rarely hear?

If y'all'd similar to hear some songs you haven't heard in a while from Amazon Music:

• Alexa, play something I haven't heard (in a while)
• Alexa, play <artist> songs, I oasis't heard

🟥 Amazon Costless, Apple Music, Spotify Gratis, and Premium don't support this characteristic.
🟥 Radio-similar services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to play something we already heard?

If we want to play music we were already listening to, nosotros can try:

• Alexa, play the <artist/genre/station/playlist> I was listening to on <day>
• Alexa, play the <artist/genre> songs I heard <yesterday (morning/afternoon) / last night>

🟥 Amazon Gratuitous, Apple Music, Spotify Gratis, and Premium don't support this feature.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.

Alexa Music Commands 2018: Alexa singing a tune for the lone sailor, guess which one?

How to track the songs nosotros listen to in Google Sheets with IFTTT

Sometimes Alexa's dynamic song suggestions are so good, that we forget to tell her which songs we like. We remember one or ii songs of the mix but cannot remember when we heard them. So we cannot utilise the voice commands of the previous chapter.

We can keep a listing of all the Amazon Music songs we listen to in a (free) Google spreadsheet. We'll use the IFTTT service (If-this-then-that) which allows the states to connect services like "Amazon Alexa" with "Google Sheets".

To rail the songs we listen to, we need to:

1. Create an IFTTT business relationship (complimentary for up to 3 IFTTT applets, we can do this via the web or download the IFTTT app)
2. Create a free Gmail account
3. Tap on this IFTTT applet (created by Amazon)
4. Tap on "Connect"
5. Connect our Amazon account with IFTTT (sign in)
6. Connect our Google account with IFTTT (sign in and tap allow)

The applet will create a "Songs played" Google sheet on our Google account and track for every vocal we listen to on our Amazon Echo devices:

• date and time,
• creative person name,
• song name,
• and album.

Now we merely need to search this list and use information technology as inspiration for our own playlists. Thanks, Donald and Brantome!

How to find out which Playlist/Station Alexa is currently playing?

If Alexa's playlist and station recommendations fit your musical sense of taste, and you'd like to expect up which playlists or stations she'south playing to exist able to request them later, open the Alexa app and tap on the 'Play' push button at the lesser of the screen. You'll discover the recently played playlists, stations, and channels beyond all the music services yous are using. (Thank you lot, Val!)

Please note, we have not found a voice command yet, to request this data on the fly.

How to play Like Music?

There's this one tricky tune and you'd like to hear more like that:

• Alexa, play more like this/that
• Alexa, play songs like to <championship>
• Alexa, play songs similar to <artist>

Notation, a very nice feature – thank you to Briane and Dawn – which comes via Amazon Music Prime are creative person "stations", which will play songs similar to the creative person yous take chosen, along with some of their all-time songs: Alexa, play <creative person> station

🟥 Apple Music, Spotify Costless, and Premium don't support this feature.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to play Favorites and how to like/dislike Songs?

For Amazon Music and Spotify, Alexa can play stations based on your preferences:

• Alexa, play (some other) music I similar
• Alexa, play my likes

If we desire Alexa to exist able to find our favorite music, and if we accept Amazon Music, we tin tell her what we like:

• Alexa, thumbs up/down
• Alexa, I like/don't like this vocal

Only in case there's this one nasty tune hunting us, and we accept Amazon Music, permit's skip it from now on:

• I'thou tired of this song

🟥 For Like/Dislike on Apple tree Music, Alexa returns: "Sure, your feedback is saved." We cannot observe the feedback reflected in Apple Music. "Play music I like" will play your personal Apple Music station.
🟥 Like/Dislike on Spotify returns: "Yous tin merely set thumbs up or down for a song playing on your custom stations." Non certain what she ways, we tried with playlists, stations, and personalized stations similar "Notice Weekly." It does not work for us. "Play music I similar" will play your liked songs, which y'all'll demand to "thumb upwards" in the Spotify app.
🟧 According to their documentation, Pandora and iHeartRadio support "thumbs up/downward". As we've failed to verify, we're leaving this feature on orangish.

How to play Songs by Lyrics?

You might remember some lyrics snippets of your favorite songs rather than their title. No worries, if you have Amazon Music, Alexa got y'all covered:

• Alexa, play the song that goes <lyrics>
• Alexa, what's the song that goes <lyrics>

🟧 Amazon Complimentary and Prime will play a station based on the song lyrics.
🟩 Playing songs by lyrics is simply supported by Amazon Music Unlimited.

Pro-Tip: Echo Shows are cracking to sing along. With Amazon Music, they brandish vocal lyrics during playback.

How to command your Music Library and Playlists?

To listen to your ain playlists, you can say:

• Alexa, play my playlist <playlist>
• Alexa, listen to my <playlist> playlist
• Alexa, shuffle my <playlist> playlist

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You tin control what goes into your Amazon Music library past proverb:

• Alexa, add this song to my library

And yous tin can control what you'd like to hear from there:

• Alexa, play my music by <creative person>
• Alexa, play some <genre/artist> from my library

Note, to create and add to your playlists on Amazon Music (thanks a lot Brantome!):
Alexa, start/create a new playlist
Alexa, add together this song to my playlist <playlist>

🟧 Apple Music and Spotify don't back up the library commands as well as creating and calculation to a playlist with voice.
🟥 Amazon Free does not support playlists or a library.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to listen to Alexa'southward Radio Stations?

Listening to radio stations is as straightforward every bit:

• Alexa, play <genre/station> radio
• Alexa, play the station <station>
• Alexa, play another <genre > station

Note: if you want to mind to a different service, add together, east.one thousand. "… on TuneIn" to your command.

You can as well bank check out radio skills in the Alexa app: Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' button, then on "Skills & Games." Either search for "radio" with the lens symbol (acme correct) or select "Music and Sound" from the categories. You'll find over six,000 radio skills.

🟧 TuneIn does not support genres just over 120,000 live radio stations.

Alexa's Music Commands 2020 – "Alexa, who plays guitar in this vocal?" – ask Alexa for music information

How to inquire for Music Information?

Alexa's music knowledge has quite expanded. She tin can requite united states of america the following music information when we ask well-nigh what's playing:

• Alexa, who sings this?
• Alexa, what (song/tune) is this?
• Alexa, what's the album?
• Alexa, when was this (song) released?
• Alexa, what'due south <artist> newest album?
• Alexa, who plays the <musical instrument> (in this (song))?
• Alexa, what's the song that goes <lyrics snippet>?
• Alexa, what was the elevation song in <yr>

Note, this characteristic will not piece of work for every song as music information for some songs is missing.

🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are missing this feature.

How to allow Alexa announce every song?

A new characteristic only supported for Amazon Music is called Vocal ID. If information technology'south turned on by:

• Alexa, turn on Vocal ID

Alexa volition denote the title and artist of every song y'all are playing. You can turn this feature off by saying:

• Alexa, plough off Song ID

🟩 Song ID works merely for Amazon Music.

How to get the "correct" version of a song?

Thank you a lot, Mike, for pointing out that nosotros demand this affiliate!

When you ask Alexa to play a vocal by <title>, yous might hear the "wrong" song. Maybe Alexa will play a completely different song, not the artist y'all expected, a bad cover version, or the live version, and you desire to hear the studio version or vice versa.

There could be many dissimilar reasons for this unexpected Alexa behavior:

• she has too many versions of this song championship in her music library and also lilliputian information which song y'all really meant,
• she tries to please the masses and takes the popularity of song versions into account,
• she tries to save some money and plays cheaper covers/versions of a song (especially for smaller plans),
• or she has not figured out your musical taste yet.

one. Attempt to find the "right" song by vocalization

Any the reason might exist, it's definitely worth trying to be more specific in your Alexa music commands. Here'southward how to attempt to become the right version of a song past giving Alexa more information:

1. Alexa, play <championship> Let's assume this plays the "incorrect" song
2. Alexa, play <title> by <artist> Effort this, if it'due south the wrong artist
3. Alexa, play <championship> from <album> Try this, if it's the wrong version
4. Alexa, play the live/album version of <title> (by <creative person>). Try this if you'd like to hear the live/studio version of a song. You can likewise try: acoustic, remastered, remixed, lullaby, instrumental, or even different linguistic communication versions.

2. Find the "right" song with the music app

If this doesn't aid, vocalism commands volition unlikely assist y'all to find the right version of the vocal. In this case, it's all-time to search with your music app (east.chiliad., Amazon Music, Apple Music, or the Spotify app).

Assuming y'all've establish the correct version of the song (otherwise, information technology is not bachelor in your plan), y'all tin can now add it to a custom playlist or your music library.

Note, delight see the music commands in the chapter above "How to control your Music Library and Playlists?"

3. Play the "right" song with vocalism from your library

Now, that you lot've added the "correct" version of the song to your playlist/library, as Alexa searches first in "My Music" (give thanks you, Brantome!),  and so the Amazon Music catalog or samples from the Digital Music Store, you just demand to ask again for the title to hear your preferred version.

• Alexa, play <championship>

Please notation, information technology takes a couple of seconds to synchronize your Music Library with Alexa. Y'all tin immediately enforce hearing your preferred version of a song by calculation "Alexa, play <title> from my library".

For Spotify yous can only request your playlist, which now contains the preferred version of your song:

• Alexa, play my playlist <playlist> (from Spotify)

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How to Listen To Podcasts?

Alexa supports podcasts from TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple tree Podcasts, and more recently Amazon Music.

If you lot are feeling lucky, Alexa tin recommend yous some podcasts:

• Alexa, (can y'all) recommend a podcast

If y'all have a preferred topic, similar astrophysics, sports, summit-rated, fun, kids, finance, human relationship, business concern, history, stress-relief, popular, spooky, scientific discipline, cocky-help, career, technology, one-act, etc. you tin can ask for the topic:

• Alexa, (tin can you) recommend a <topic> podcast

If y'all already know which podcast you'd like to listen to, just request:

• Alexa, play (the latest episode of the) <podcast> podcast
• Alexa, play the commencement/2nd/… episode of the <podcast> podcast

If you have already listened to a Podcast, Alexa tin can resume where yous left off. This works for all podcast services on Echo devices.

• Alexa, resume my podcast

To navigate within one podcast, we can say:

• Alexa, skip back/forward 10 seconds/minutes

To navigate between podcasts, we take following command:

• Alexa, (play the) previous/next episode

Note, particularly heavy Podcast listeners might feel that they have more playback control when using their Podcast app and streaming to their Amazon Repeat device via Bluetooth or SpotifyConnect.

🟧 Skipping back/frontward within an episode does not work on Spotify.

TuneIn Podcasts

Alexa's pre-installed default service for podcasts is TuneIn. You can browse the Top 10 TuneIn Podcasts and the Total TuneIn Podcast catalog on the web or in the TuneIn app.

Spotify Podcasts

Spotify podcasts are already set up when y'all link the Spotify music service. Yous tin browse the Spotify podcast catalog on the spider web or in your Spotify app. To link the Spotify music service:

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' push button.
2. Select "Settings" and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and then on "Spotify."
4. Tap "Enable to use" and enter your Spotify account information
5. Tap Agree to permit Alexa access your Spotify account
6. Tap Done

Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts demand to be separately linked in the Alexa app. You can browse the Apple Podcast catalog on the web or in your Podcasts app. To link to the Apple Podcast service:

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' button.
2. Select "Settings" and then "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and then on "Apple Podcasts."
4. Tap "Enable to use" (Note, Apple Podcasts will use your AppleID from the Apple Music service)
5. Tap Done

Amazon Music Podcasts

Amazon Music Podcasts are automatically available through your Amazon Music service. Just make sure to set it as your default podcast service.

Pro-Tip: With Amazon Music, you lot tin can even resume the podcast y'all've listened to on your Amazon Echo Auto, your Amazon Music app, and your Amazon Echo devices. Only ask Alexa to resume your podcast.

Setting the Default Podcast Service

Once y'all have linked your favorite Podcast service, you should set it every bit your default Podcast service. Otherwise, yous will need to append "… on Apple Podcasts" or "on Spotify" to your Podcast request. To set your default Podcast service:

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More than' push.
2. Select "Settings" and then "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Default Services" and so on "Change" in the Podcasts section.
4. Tap on your favorite podcast service.

Alexa's Podcast Skills

You can as well check out Podcast skills in the Alexa app: Open the Alexa app and tap on the menu at the top left, then on "Skills & Games." Search for "podcast" with the lens symbol (top right). You lot'll find over 3,600 Podcast skills.

How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker?

You can easily control the music playback of another Repeat device by saying:

• Alexa, play <song/album/artist/genre> on <Echo's proper name>
• Alexa, previous/next on <Echo'southward proper name>
• Alexa, stop/interruption/resume on <Echo's name>

You lot tin can group your Echo devices for music playback either through smart home groups or multi-room music groups:

• Alexa, play <song/album/artist/genre> in the <group>
• Alexa, next in <group>
• Alexa, stop in <group>
• Alexa, play <vocal/anthology/artist/genre> everywhere
• Alexa, book 3 (in the) <group>

Smart Home Groups

You tin create Smart Home Groups which typically represent your rooms (east.g. office) and add your smart domicile devices and Echos located in this room. An Echo device can merely be added to one smart home group.

• Alexa, play music in the role

will play music on all Echo devices in the office (group).

Multi-Room Music

To play music in multiple rooms, you can create multi-room music groups (e.g. everywhere, upstairs, downstairs). An Echo device can be in multiple multi-room music groups.

• Alexa, play music downstairs

volition play music on all Echo devices in the downstairs multi-room music (group).

Audio System

The audio arrangement setup allows you to create stereo pairs of two compatible Echo devices and an optional subwoofer. Yous tin also ready a domicile theater past connecting up to two uniform Echo devices and an optional Echo Sub as speakers for a compatible Burn down TV stick.

🟩 This Alexa feature is available for all music services.

Note, you can now stream directly from your Spotify app to private Echo devices and Multi-Room Music Groups through Spotify Connect. (Thank you, Brantome!)

How to move music wherever nosotros go?

This long-awaited characteristic (thank you, Brantome!) lets united states have the music, podcasts, and radio stations we're currently listening to, with us. Wherever we become.

Permit'southward say we move from A to B, where A and B could be whatever Echo device, including Echo buds and Echo Auto, or a room/grouping, or a multi-room music grouping.

While even so at A, we tin can either intermission the music to not miss a beat while we get to B:

• Alexa, break

Or, we can motion the content instantly to B:

• Alexa, move my music/podcast/radio to B <room/group/device>

When at B, we tin resume the paused playback from A:

• Alexa, resume music/podcast/radio hither

Or, nosotros tin move whatever is playing someplace else to where we are:

• Alexa, move my music/podcast/radio here

You lot can find more information from Amazon hither.

🟩 This Alexa feature is available for all music services.

What is the Preferred Speaker Set-Up?

You can set a preferred speaker of a smart home group to stream to with "Alexa, play music." The preferred speaker can exist an Echo device, a speaker from Bose or Sonos, a multi-room music group, or a speaker set. Merely tap on "preferred speaker" at the bottom of your smart abode group to configure information technology.

Note, the preferred speaker settings are only for music playback.

How to ready a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?

To set up a slumber timer, we can say:

• Alexa fix a slumber timer for 30 seconds/minutes/hours
• Alexa, stop playing in 1 hour
• Alexa, cancel the sleep timer

We tin can at present request a song, album, artist, or genre and specify for how long Alexa shall play it (Thanks a lot, Brantome!):

• Alexa, play <title/album/artist/genre> for x seconds/minutes/hours
• Alexa, play nature sounds for 30 minutes

To create an Alexa Routine, where Alexa magically creates the perfect ambiance to put you in the center of the story you are reading, or but asleep please see – Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambient Scenes and Sounds

Nosotros can set a music alarm by saying:

• Alexa set a music warning
• Alexa, wake me upwardly to music (thanks, Kelly!)

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Alexa will come dorsum with "Alarm for what time" and we can set a former or repeating alert past saying, e.k. "at 7 a.thou. every Tuesday". We can also tell her in ane command:

• Alexa wake me upward to music at six AM (every weekday)

If we don't tell her what "music", she'll wake u.s.a. up to something we've recently heard on i of our music services (thanks, Kelly!). If we desire to exist more specific:

• Alexa, wake me up to <song/album/creative person/genre/playlist/radio station>

• Alexa, wake me up to <song/album/artist/genre/playlist> at 7 AM (every Tuesday)
• Alexa, wake me up to the song that goes <lyrics> at 8 AM (at weekends)
• Alexa, cancel/disable (the) 7 am alert
• Alexa, cancel/disable (all) alarm/s

Please find our dedicated Alexa Alarm mail here: Alexa Alarms, the Smarter Alarm Clock!

Annotation: If you have non set the music service you'd like to hear equally default music service, add e.thou. "… on TuneIn" to your command.

Pro-Tip: (thank you, Kelly!) Nosotros can currently merely set Music Alarms with voice commands. There is besides an option to create scheduled Alexa Routines to play music at a specific time. Please, be conscientious with Routines instead of Regular/Music Alarms, as they won't actuate if your Echo loses WiFi or Cyberspace connection. Music Alarms are safe, every bit they get converted into regular alarms in instance the Echo device goes offline, and those work offline too. You lot can yet create Alexa Routines, which run when you dismiss an Alexa Warning or Music Alert. Please check out our post: Alexa Alarms, the Smarter Alarm Clock!

Our Alarms, Timers and Notifications have their own volume settings, per Echo device

Another Pro-Tip: Y'all tin observe the volume for the (Music) Alarm in the device settings: Devices Tab / Echo & Alexa (pinnacle left) / Your Echo device / Sounds / "Alarms, Timers, and Notifications." Ascending volume works currently only for Regular Alarms.

How to Create Your Own Music Commands With Alexa Routines?

Upwards to at present, nosotros were looking into predefined music commands. Just there is a powerful feature that tin can help us to create our own voice commands to heed to any nosotros similar and even more.

If you are completely new to Alexa Routines, you might enjoy this overview: Alexa Routines: How to Automate your Life with your Amazon Echo!

And, if you desire to watch Alexa herself, creating a bedtime story Routine, delight see Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambience Scenes and Sounds.

Creating a Uncomplicated Alexa Routine with Voice

At that place is a surprisingly easy mode to create an Alexa Routine, we just need to say:

• Alexa, when I say (command), and so (exercise something)
• Alexa, when someone says (command), then (do something)

Alexa volition come back with: "Great! I created your Routine. When yous say (command), so I volition (practice something). Change it anytime in the Routine Section of the Alexa app."

We tin can use this to command our smart home quickly: "Alexa, when I say goodnight, plough off the bedroom lights," or as a quick remedy for all these songs our kids dear simply we tin't hear any more:

• Alexa, when someone says play baby shark, play my favorite music!

But this is just the commencement, merely one uncomplicated activeness. We can now arrange this unmarried activity and add as many boosted actions as we like.

Let's start with a Good Dark Routine. If you already have a "goodnight" playlist, you lot can follow along. Otherwise, just utilize your favorite album/artist/genre/playlist/radio station.

• Alexa, when I say goodnight, play my goodnight playlist

Alexa will confirm that she has created our goodnight routine. At present, every time we say "Alexa, goodnight!" she volition play our goodnight playlist.

Merely what if we'd similar to play our playlist on loop and for some hours? No problem, we can edit our Routine in the Alexa app.

Editing our Uncomplicated Alexa Routine in the Alexa App

Where to find your Alexa Routines …

In this section, we'll edit our "Goodnight Routine," which nosotros've previously created with our vox to:

• set the proper book for falling asleep
• loop our "goodnight" playlist
• for a flow of time, e.thou. 2 hours

When we open our Alexa app and tap the 'More' button, we'll find the "Routines" section, only tap on it.

Within our Routines, we'll detect the routine we've created with our phonation: "Alexa, goodnight".

• Underneath the "Add Action" button, we'll discover the action nosotros told Alexa before: "play goodnight playlist." But tap on it.
• Nosotros can now edit the activeness and add "on loop" to our command, "goodnight playlist on loop."
• Underneath, tap on the "Timer" and select for how long, e.grand. 2 hours.

Allow'due south quickly add some other action to brand sure that the volume is gear up appropriately.

Tap on "Add action," "Device Settings," Volume, and select something betwixt 10-20% or whatsoever volume which suits you. Tap "Side by side" to confirm.

Our "goodnight" Routine with the advisable volume setting

At present, we have 2 actions in our "Goodnight" routine: Alexa will lower the volume and play our "Goodnight" routine on loop for two hours. Prissy!

Please bank check out our adjacent section for another routine example.

Note, Alexa Routines require WiFi and an Internet connectedness to run. If your Repeat loses connectedness to your Wifi and Internet during playback, the music playback volition exist interrupted. This tin can too happen if your Repeat receives a remote firmware update and has to reboot during the night.

Creating an Alexa Routine from Scratch: "Alexa, it'due south Dinner Time!"

Up to now, nosotros've looked into creating an Alexa Routine with a voice control and later editing this simple Routine in the Alexa app. Let's create a routine from scratch in the Alexa app. When we say:

• Alexa, information technology'southward dinner time

Alexa will:

• denote that "Dinner is Ready" on all our Echo devices
• turn off the Boob tube
• set the correct light scene(south)
• play some dinner music

Before we brainstorm, here's a quick overview of all the dissimilar options nosotros have in the Alexa app. When we create a new routine by navigating to the 'More' push button / Routines / "+" (top right), we can specify one trigger for "When this happens," which can exist:

• a vocalisation command,
• a schedule/time of day, which can be reoccurring
• the push button on an Repeat button, or
• a move/contact sensor that senses motion / or opening of a door/window (currently but limited devices similar SmartThings support that)
• when an Alexa Alert is dismissed.

And in 1 Routine, nosotros can combine many different deportment, like

• setting the device book on Alexa devices
• letting Alexa say/sing something (custom or categorized)
• announcing our calendar events
• sending announcements to Alexa devices
• playing our News Flash Briefing
• controlling our smart home devices
• playing a traffic written report
• playing the weather report
• and last, just not to the lowest degree: playing a song/artist/playlist from a music provider, like Amazon Music/Our Library/Spotify/TuneIn for a sure duration on a specific Echo device or Multi-Room Music Group

Our Dinner Fourth dimension Routine: announcements, smart home and music deportment

1. Let'due south start by borer on "When this happens," select "Phonation," and type in "it's dinner time." Confirm with "Side by side" at the superlative right.
2. To add together the proclamation:
   • Tap on "Add Activeness," so "Messaging," and "Send Proclamation."
   • Type in the bulletin, like "dinner is ready! hurry up!". Confirm with "Next" at the top right.
   • Exit "All Devices" checked, or select the devices which will receive the annunciation. Ostend with "Next" at the top right.
   • Y'all'll meet the confirmation "Alexa will denote 'dinner is ready' on All Devices." Confirm with "Next" at the acme right.
3. To turn off the Television receiver (bold you take a Logitech Harmony)
   • Tap on "Add Activity," then "Smart Dwelling house," then "Control Scene," and select the name of your Logitech Harmony running, e.1000. "TV."
   • Set up Power to "Off" and confirm by tapping "Next" at the summit right.
4. To prepare the right light scenes (assuming you have Philips Hue)
   • Tap on "Add Action," then "Smart Abode," then "Control Scene," and select your preferred scenes. We'll set the living room to the scene "Relax."
   • Add together whatsoever additional lite scenes, e.k., gear up the dining area a bit brighter (here to "Read")
5. To play dinner music:
   • Tap on "Add together Action", then "Music" and type in "dinner music" (or your preferred album/artist/genre/playlist/radio station for dinner)
   • Tap on "From" and select your preferred music service.

We are ready:

• "Alexa, it'southward dinner fourth dimension!"

With Alexa Routines, you lot tin get creative. You lot can specify your own voice command for a radio station or your favorite music group, which is difficult to pronounce or set the correct lighting scene with the right music for a romantic dinner. Or all these deportment together and many more. The but limit is your imagination!

Pro-Tip: The brilliant example from Brantome (Thanks!), shows the powerful flexibility of music routines: "You can add "shuffle" to a play-activity in a routine, plus you lot can as well direct the output to a group, not only a unmarried device by calculation the group'southward proper noun to the end of the play-action text e.g. "proficient stuff playlist shuffle downstairs" will shuffle my 'good stuff' playlist on my Downstairs group." The play control would look like: "<playlist name> playlist shuffle <multi-room music group name>".

Please note, Practise Not requite your Multi-Room music group a "custom name", rather select a suitable "common proper noun" from Alexa's list, because Alexa might otherwise not be able to address the Music Group in the Alexa Routine, and come back with "I cannot find the playlist …".

You can control the volume of individual devices of a multi-room music speaker group

Note, "On the now playing screen in the Alexa app, y'all tin can select the book icon and conform the book slider for each device in a group." (Cheers, Brantome!)

What songs tin Alexa sing?

There are so many Alexa songs – we've found 288 upward to now – and then we had to create a dedicated post only for them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain Alexa singing! Welcome to smartenlight flight number 288, non-end from your couch to Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Brazil and back to your couch": Alexa, sing a song! A Musical World Trip with 288 Alexa Songs

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Sorry! At that place are so many interesting topics around music, and though nosotros –  everyone who takes the time to contribute to this post – have climbed the highest mountains … we might have missed what's important to you! Please join us past taking the time to share your Alexa music experiences, questions, and answers in our give-and-take section below! You are helping to improve this mail service for everyone!

Still, there might be features, which Amazon has not developed or rolled out however. Amazon continuously expands and refines Alexa's music commands. They have to rely on statistical data based on our Alexa usage. But once you try a command and information technology does not work for you, you'll rarely try information technology once again …

To support the development of the Alexa music commands and features we are missing, we need to send feedback to Amazon! It'southward easy, and we can do it directly from the Alexa app:

1. Tap the 'More' push button select "Help & Feedback."
2. Select "Send Feedback"
3. Select the category "Music & Apps."
4. Select "other bug" or, like in this instance, "Wrong song or radio station."
5. Draw the music command that doesn't work for you, ideally by additionally giving a command case, like "Alexa, skip l songs," skips merely one song.
6. Tap "Send Feedback"

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Alexa supports, especially with Amazon Music as a service, many novel music features. She has even learned to give the states some music information recently. And now, in 2021, we only received HD and 3D sound content at no additional price. What a nowadays for audiophiles!

Slumber timers and music alarms are helpful features supported beyond different music services. Alexa'southward Routines are a powerful feature to create our own vocalism commands to integrate our music into simple or more than complex routines. Multi-Room Music Groups and Preferred Speakers for Smart Dwelling Groups assistance us to streamline our music experience throughout our home.

We hope you lot've enjoyed this extensive list of Alexa's music commands. If yes, delight consider helping this living post to grow by sharing it with friends and family. Thanks!

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Happy Alexa Music!

P.Due south. Yous can discover more than Alexa posts hither: Amazon Alexa.
P.P.S. For more information from Amazon, please see:
Amazon: Heed to your music
Amazon Music Unlimited FAQ
What are the Differences Between the Amazon Music Subscriptions?

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