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Let'south celebrate Alexa'south birthday with an update on the new features she recently brought u.s. to enjoy music on our Amazon Echos. We can finally move the music we're listening to from room to room and fifty-fifty take it outdoors. Amazon Music Unlimited Spatial Audio (3D Sound) is now supported on all headphones, and Alexa will adjust her speaking volume to the ambient noise at our domicile.

In this mail service, nosotros volition look into all the Alexa music commands to enjoy all the music services supported by our Amazon Echos. Nosotros will embrace basic volume and playback commands, likewise every bit tips and tricks on how to manage and listen to your favorite music. You'll find commands for setting slumber timers and music alarms. And, you will create your very own music commands with Alexa routines.

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1. Do y'all take fourth dimension? Wonderful, keep reading. This post is quite detailed equally it has evolved over the years. You will get a good overview of all the Alexa music features and services.
2. Would you like to run into which Alexa music control works for which service? Take a look at our "Alexa Music Commands Jump Table", which gives y'all an overview of all Alexa Music features beyond all Music services. Just tap on the colored boxes to jump direct to the music commands you lot're interested in. Swipe or tap back to return to the tabular array.
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Tabular array of contents

• Alexa'southward Music Services
  • Amazon's Music Services
    • Amazon Music Free (ad-supported)
    • Amazon Music Prime
    • Amazon Music Unlimited (includes at present Hard disk and 3D content)
  • Apple Music
  • Spotify's Music Services
    • Spotify Gratuitous (advert-supported)
    • Spotify Premium
  • Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services
• How to fix Alexa Music Services?
  • How to Link a Music Service?
  • How to gear up your Favorite Music Service as the Default?
• Alexa'south Music Commands Leap Tabular array
• How to control Alexa'due south Music Volume?
• How to let Alexa whisper?
• How to allow Alexa automatically accommodate her Speaking Volume?
• How to make Alexa speak faster/slower?
• How to follow an Artist with Alexa?
• How to command Alexa's Music Playback?
• How to command Alexa'south Equalizer?
• How to navigate Alexa's Music Library?
  • How to play Music by Championship/Album/Creative person?
  • How to play Music past Genre?
  • How to play Music by Action 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 y'all rarely hear?
  • How to play something we already heard?
  • How to rail the songs we listen to in Google Sheets with IFTTT
  • How to find out which Playlist/Station Alexa is currently playing?
  • How to play Similar Music?
  • How to play Favorites and how to similar/dislike Songs?
  • How to play Songs by Lyrics?
• How to control your Music Library and Playlists?
• How to mind to Alexa'south Radio Stations?
• How to ask for Music Information?
  • How to permit Alexa announce every song?
• How to get the "correct" version of a song?
  • 1. Try to find the "right" song past voice
  • 2. Find the "correct" song with the music app
  • 3. Play the "correct" song with vox from your library
• How to Listen To Podcasts?
  • TuneIn Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Amazon Music Podcasts
  • Setting the Default Podcast Service
  • Alexa's Podcast Skills
• How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker?
  • Smart Domicile Groups
  • Multi-Room Music
  • Audio System
• How to move music wherever nosotros go?
• What is the Preferred Speaker Set-Upward?
• How to set a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?
• How to Create Your Ain 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's Dinner Time!"
• What songs can Alexa sing?
• Only I Still Haven't Found What I'yard Looking For!
• Conclusion

Alexa'due 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 lot might find other music services in your Alexa app.

Please note, following services are not bachelor in the U.Thousand.: Pandora, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, and Tidal. (Thanks Brantome!)

Amazon'southward Music Services

If you are an Amazon Prime member, you'll first with Amazon Music Prime, which is included in your Prime subscription. If not, you'll discover Amazon's Free advertizing-supported music service. If you don't like ads or find that two meg songs aren't enough, you tin subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited with more than 75 million songs. This music service now includes high-quality streaming audio with over 75 1000000 songs in Hd and 7 million songs in Ultra HD, at no extra cost.

No subscription or credit card required, Amazon's free, advert-supported Amazon Music service is currently bachelor in the U.S., U.1000., and Germany (Thanks, Brantome!). Yous 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 control "Alexa, play some music" will enable 14 free days of Amazon Music Unlimited. From time to fourth dimension, Amazon provides free Amazon Music Unlimited trials for 30 days or 3 months. After the trial menstruation, your subscription renews automatically until canceled.

Amazon Music Prime number

Amazon Music Prime is included in your Prime subscription and has – like the ad-supported complimentary tier – a limited music library with about 2 Million songs. It'south ad-costless merely 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-twenty-four hours Free Trial (+Prime number, +Prime number Video)
U.K.: Amazon Prime Music30-day Free Trial (+Prime, +Prime Video)

Amazon Music Unlimited (includes now HD and 3D content)

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

With over 75 million songs, y'all tin can option between the cheaper "Single-Device Program" to listen just on one single Amazon Repeat device, the "Private plan" to listen to one music stream on all of your Echo devices, or the "Family plan" to listen to up to half dozen different music streams on all your Echo devices. If you're a student currently enrolled in a degree-granting college or academy, you tin register for the "Student programme" (50% off).

As of May 17th, 2021, Amazon Music Unlimited includes the content of Amazon Music Hard disk at no extra toll. With over 75 million songs in High Definition (HD), about double the bitrate of other music services, we tin listen to music in CD quality. It also includes over 7 million songs in Ultra HD (UHD), which is upwards to 10 times the bitrate of other music services (amend than CD quality).

Delight note that y'all will need a fast internet connection (ane.five Mbps or college), a device that supports 16-flake/44.1 kHz or higher (similar an iPhone 5s or later), and wired headphones or speakers that back up a dynamic range of 20kHz+ for HD or 40 kHz+ for Ultra HD.

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

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

Alexa Music Commands Early 2022 – Amazon Music Unlimited includes now Amazon Music HD at no extra cost!

With the latest update, spatial sound – aka 3D Audio – is now supported for playback through the iOS or Android Amazon Music app with whatsoever headphones. We can cast music from any source to select smart speakers, such as the Repeat Studio, Sony SRS-RA3000, and Sony SRS-RA5000. You can find Amazon's Music Unlimited HD FAQ here.

U.S.: Amazon Music Unlimitediii Months FREE trial – Delight annotation the Black Fri bundle options with 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for complimentary, with the All-new Echo (fourth Gen), All-new Echo Dot (4th Gen), All-new Echo Dot with Clock (4th Gen), Echo Buds (second Gen), Echo Dot (3rd Gen), and Echo Auto.

U.Grand.: Amazon Music Unlimitedthree Months FREE trial – Please notation the Blackness Fri bundle option with 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for complimentary, with the All-new Repeat Dot (4th Gen).

Apple Music

Apple Music too provides over 75 million songs. You tin pick between an "Individual plan" or a "Family plan" for upward to 6 people. If you're a college student, you tin can subscribe to the Student plan (l% off).

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

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

Spotify's Music Services

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

Amazingly, you have admission to over l million songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, that is, if you can live with ads in your listening experience. Yous tin can download songs for up to 14 days for offline listening. Spotify Complimentary works with Alexa in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany,  Austria, India, Italian republic, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the U.K., and the U.Southward. (Thank you, Brantome!)

Spotify Premium

Spotify Premium has over fifty One thousand thousand songs in its library, this time without advert interruptions. You can set the audio quality to very high (upwardly to 320 kbit/s) and download songs to listen to without an internet connection.

You can pick betwixt "Premium Individual" for one person, "Premium Duo" for 2 people living together for i discounted cost, and "Premium Family unit" for upward to 6 people living together. If you lot're currently enrolled at an accredited college or academy, you lot can become 50% off a Premium subscription with the Premium Student plan.

Yous won't be able to tag your favorites with Alexa. However, if there is a playlist on Spotify, even for activities and moods, you tin can access information technology with Alexa.

Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services

Since those are radio-like services, you'll notice limitations effectually music playback control and selecting specific music.

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How to ready upwardly Alexa Music Services?

Alexa's music service setup is basically a 2-step procedure. First, we need to link all the music services we'd like to utilize. Then we need to ascertain which service should be our default for music and artist 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
2. Select "Settings" and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service," and and then on the music service yous'd like to link.
4. Tap on "Enable to use" and enter the music service account information.
5. Tap Washed

You tin now utilize all the music services y'all've linked, but by adding 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 prepare your Favorite Music Service as the Default?

To gear up your favorite default service for music:

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

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

• Alexa, play music

and she'll play it from our favorite music service. Repeat the process to set up your favorite music service for creative person and genre stations:

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

Alexa's Music Commands Bound Tabular array

This is an overview of all the Alexa Music features across selected Alexa Music services. The colored boxes point whether a characteristic is supported for a music service. You can tap on the colored boxes to spring directly to the music commands you're interested in.

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

Annotation, if you have non set your preferred service as default music service in the Alexa app, make sure to add "…from Prime Music", "… on Spotify", "…on TuneIn", etc. at the end of your Alexa music commands.

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

How to control Alexa'due south Music Volume?

Post-obit music commands will alter Alexa's volume in ten% steps:

• Alexa, (modify/make/turn the) volume upwards/down
• Alexa (brand it) softer/louder
• Alexa, lower/heighten (the) volume
• Alexa, increase/decrease (the) volume
• Alexa, plough/crank it up/downward

Another way to specifically set the volume level is:

• Alexa, (set the) volume (to level) <i-10>
• Alexa, book 3 (Note, that'south the snappy, short control)

Furthermore, nosotros can mute Alexa:

• Alexa, mute/unmute

If you take configured Smart Home Groups or Multi-Room Music groups, y'all can control the book of multiple Echos:

• Alexa, book 3 (in the) <group>

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

🟩 Controlling the Volume is an Alexa feature and available for all music services.

Note: (Thanks, Cindy!) With the volume commands above, e.chiliad., "Alexa, volume up/downward" or "Alexa, volume ane-10," we control Alexa's voice book and the Music/Media book simultaneously. Some music services, wink briefings, etc., practise non provide their sound at the same book (normalized). Whenever we change their book, we also change the volume of Alexas voice.

How to let Alexa whisper?

Sometimes, it feels more appropriate to have Alexa whisper back, rather than waking up everybody:

• Alexa, turn Whisper Fashion on

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

• Alexa, turn Whisper Way off

🟩 Whisper Mode is an Alexa feature and available for all music services.

How to let Alexa automatically adjust her Speaking Volume?

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

• Alexa, plough on Adaptive Volume

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

How to make Alexa speak faster/slower?

We tin can adapt Alexa'southward speaking rate by saying:

• Alexa, speak faster (Note, up to four times faster)
• Alexa, speak slower (Notation, upwardly to ii times slower)

To reset Alexas speaking rate, we just need to say:

• Alexa, speak at your default rate

How to follow an Artist with Alexa?

Never miss a new release from your favorite creative person past saying:

• Alexa, follow <creative person>
• Alexa, follow this artist (Note, this comes handy if you're listening to music and practice not know the artist'southward name)
• Alexa, let me know when this artist releases a new album

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

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

If you lot'd similar to terminate receiving those notifications:

• Alexa, unfollow <creative person>
• Alexa, stop following <creative person>

How to control Alexa's Music Playback?

You can stop and resume playback by saying:

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

But you can besides play some music you might like:

• Alexa, play some music
• Alexa, what should I play? (Annotation, on an Echo Show this will only display a station, simply say: "Alexa, play that" afterwards)

If you would like to get some assistance from Alexa:

• Alexa, aid me observe a playlist
• Alexa, help me discover a vacation playlist

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

To navigate within an album or playlist, just say:

• Alexa, next/previous (song/rails/championship)
• Alexa, skip (this vocal)

To navigate within a song, yous tin can say:

• Alexa, play (this song) from (the) first
• Alexa, restart (this song)
• Alexa, bound/skip back/forward (10 seconds/minute(south))

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

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

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

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

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

🟧 Repeat style currently does not 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 Equalizer?

Amazon Echos support an equalizer to control the bass, mid-range, and treble of our Echo devices. You tin can check the availability of this characteristic in the Alexa app under Options, your Repeat device, sounds. If you find an blaster setting at the height of the folio, the following commands will piece of work.

• Alexa, increase/subtract (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, turn/crank up/down (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, fix (the) bass/mid-range/treble to minimum/maximum
• Alexa, set bass/mid-range/treble to (minus); Note, we take a range of +/- 6 dB which we can ready straight

To get back to neutral EQ settings, nosotros can say:

• Alexa, reset (the) equalizer

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

How to navigate Alexa's Music Library?

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

How to play Music by Title/Album/Artist?

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

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

🟧 The "gratuitous" services Amazon Gratis, Spotify Free, and Amazon Music Prime will more often than not play a station with music similar to what you lot've requested.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing these features. However, you tin generally request or create an "creative person radio" station. For TuneIn, you lot need to specify the radio station name.

We tin likewise jump straight to a track number on an album (Thank you, David!):

Alexa, play runway <number> from the album <album name>

Alexa will confirm "playing the album …, starting with rail 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

Here are the master genres from Amazon's database:

• Alternative & Indie
• Blues
• Broadway
• Children's Music
• Christian
• Classic Rock
• Classical
• Country
• Trip the light fantastic & Electronic
• Easy Listening
• Folk
• Gospel
• Difficult Rock & Metallic
• 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 only support radio station names or callsigns.

How to play Music by Activeness and Mood?

Alexa supposedly knows effectually 500 undocumented activities and moods, which you tin use to play the music that fits what you are up to. These are basically (curated) playlists created by Amazon for often requested activities/moods.

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

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

• Wake Upwards
• Running / Jogging / Conditioning
• Party / Partying / Dancing
• Working / Study / Studying / Reading
• Cleaning / Cooking / Dinner
• Relaxing / Meditation / Chill-out
• Love
• Sleeping

Here are some examples ofmoods, which Alexa understands:

• Angry
• Energetic
• Feel Practiced
• Happy
• Upbeat
• Lamentable
• Mellow
• Romantic
• Relaxed
• Laid Back

🟧 The "free" services Amazon Free, Prime, and Spotify Free, volition mostly play a station similar to what you've requested.
🟥 Radio-similar 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 lot can combine some moods, genres, and activities. Of course, merely if Amazon has created a playlist, which matches.

• Alexa, play mellow meditation music
• Alexa, play deplorable dejection music
• Alexa, play happy Latin music
• Alexa, play classical music for sleeping
• Alexa, play mellow country music

🟧 The "free" services Amazon Prime & Free will mostly play a station with music similar to what you lot'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 feature.

How to play Hd and Ultra Hd music?

Amazon Music always plays the all-time bachelor audio quality that your device and network back up. In virtually cases, your music volition automatically play in Hard disk drive quality or improve.

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

Y'all tin can play Ultra Hard disk music on your Echo Studio by requesting the Ultra Hd playlists:

• Alexa, play the Best of Ultra Hard disk playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Dance playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Popular playlist
• Alexa, play the New in Ultra Hd playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Arctic playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hd Archetype Rock playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk drive Land playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk drive Rock playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Latin playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Hip-Hop playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD 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 Hard disk <artist> playlist

How to play New Music?

Desire to hear some new songs? Here'southward what to say:

• Alexa, play brand new music
• Alexa, recommend some new music (Notation, on an Echo Show, this volition only brandish a playlist, just say: "Alexa, play that")

With Amazon Music Unlimited we have following additional commands:

• Alexa, play new <genre> music
• Alexa, play new songs by <artist>

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

How to play Pop/Regional Music?

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

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

With Amazon Music Unlimited we have following additional commands:

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

🟧 Apple Music, Spotify Gratuitous, and Premium don't support 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 yous rarely hear?

If you'd like to hear some songs you lot haven't heard in a while from Amazon Music:

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

🟥 Amazon Free, Apple Music, Spotify Free, 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, we tin try:

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

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

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

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

Sometimes Alexa'south dynamic song suggestions are so expert, that we forget to tell her which songs we like. We recall one or ii songs of the mix but cannot remember when we heard them. So nosotros cannot apply the vox commands of the previous chapter.

We can proceed 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 us to connect services like "Amazon Alexa" with "Google Sheets".

To track the songs we listen to, nosotros need to:

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

The applet volition create a "Songs played" Google canvas on our Google business relationship and rails for every vocal nosotros listen to on our Amazon Repeat devices:

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

Now nosotros but demand to search this list and use it as inspiration for our own playlists. Thank you, 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 look upward which playlists or stations she'south playing to exist able to request them later, open the Alexa app and tap on the 'Play' push at the lesser of the screen. You'll find the recently played playlists, stations, and channels across all the music services you are using. (Thanks, Val!)

Please note, we have not found a vocalization command all the same, to request this data on the fly.

How to play Similar Music?

There'south this one catchy tune and y'all'd like to hear more than like that:

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

Annotation, a very nice feature – thanks to Briane and Dawn – which comes via Amazon Music Prime number are artist "stations", which will play songs similar to the creative person you have chosen, along with some of their best songs: Alexa, play <artist> station

🟥 Apple tree Music, Spotify Free, and Premium don't back up this feature.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.

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 (another) music I similar
• Alexa, play my likes

If we want Alexa to be able to find our favorite music, and if nosotros have Amazon Music, we can tell her what we like:

• Alexa, thumbs up/down
• Alexa, I similar/don't similar this song

Simply in example there'south this one nasty tune hunting u.s.a., and we take Amazon Music, let's skip it from at present on:

• I'm tired of this vocal

🟥 For Like/Dislike on Apple tree Music, Alexa returns: "Sure, your feedback is saved." We cannot find the feedback reflected in Apple Music. "Play music I similar" will play your personal Apple tree Music station.
🟥 Like/Dislike on Spotify returns: "You tin just set thumbs up or down for a vocal playing on your custom stations." Not sure what she means, we tried with playlists, stations, and personalized stations like "Detect Weekly." Information technology does non piece of work for us. "Play music I similar" will play your liked songs, which you'll demand to "pollex upwardly" in the Spotify app.
🟧 According to their documentation, Pandora and iHeartRadio support "thumbs up/down". As we've failed to verify, we're leaving this feature on orange.

How to play Songs by Lyrics?

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

• Alexa, play the song that goes <lyrics>
• Alexa, what'due south the vocal that goes <lyrics>

🟧 Amazon Free and Prime number 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 slap-up to sing along. With Amazon Music, they display song lyrics during playback.

How to control your Music Library and Playlists?

To listen to your own playlists, y'all tin say:

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

You can command what goes into your Amazon Music library by maxim:

• Alexa, add this song to my library

And you lot can control what you'd similar to hear from at that place:

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

Note, to create and add to your playlists on Amazon Music (cheers a lot Brantome!):
Alexa, beginning/create a new playlist
Alexa, add this vocal to my playlist <playlist>

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

How to listen to Alexa'due south Radio Stations?

Listening to radio stations is every bit straightforward equally:

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

Note: if you want to heed to a different service, add, e.yard. "… on TuneIn" to your control.

You lot can besides cheque out radio skills in the Alexa app: Open up the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' push button, then on "Skills & Games." Either search for "radio" with the lens symbol (top right) or select "Music and Audio" from the categories. You'll observe over 6,000 radio skills.

🟧 TuneIn does non support genres but over 120,000 live radio stations.

Alexa's Music Commands 2022 – "Alexa, who plays guitar in this song?" – enquire Alexa for music information

How to ask for Music Information?

Alexa's music knowledge has quite expanded. She can requite us the following music information when we ask about what's playing:

• Alexa, who sings this?
• Alexa, what (song/tune) is this?
• Alexa, what'due south the album?
• Alexa, when was this (song) released?
• Alexa, what's <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 top song in <twelvemonth>

Note, this feature 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 let Alexa announce every vocal?

A new feature only supported for Amazon Music is called Vocal ID. If it'south turned on by:

• Alexa, plow on Vocal ID

Alexa will announce the title and artist of every song you are playing. You tin can turn this feature off by maxim:

• Alexa, turn off Song ID

🟩 Song ID works merely for Amazon Music.

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

Thanks a lot, Mike, for pointing out that we need this chapter!

When y'all ask Alexa to play a song past <championship>, you might hear the "wrong" song. Possibly Alexa will play a completely different song, non the artist you expected, a bad cover version, or the live version, and you desire to hear the studio version or vice versa.

In that location could exist many dissimilar reasons for this unexpected Alexa beliefs:

• she has as well many versions of this song title in her music library and too little data which song you lot really meant,
• she tries to please the masses and takes the popularity of song versions into account,
• she tries to salve some money and plays cheaper covers/versions of a vocal (specially for smaller plans),
• or she has not figured out your musical taste yet.

1. Endeavor to find the "right" song by voice

Whatever the reason might be, it'southward definitely worth trying to be more specific in your Alexa music commands. Hither'due south how to try to become the right version of a song by giving Alexa more than data:

1. Alexa, play <championship> Let's assume this plays the "wrong" song
2. Alexa, play <title> by <artist> Attempt this, if information technology's the wrong artist
3. Alexa, play <championship> from <anthology> Try this, if it'south the wrong version
4. Alexa, play the live/album version of <title> (by <creative person>). Try this if y'all'd like to hear the alive/studio version of a song. You can also try: acoustic, remastered, remixed, lullaby, instrumental, or even dissimilar language versions.

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

If this doesn't aid, voice commands will unlikely help you to find the right version of the song. In this case, it's all-time to search with your music app (e.g., Amazon Music, Apple tree Music, or the Spotify app).

Bold you've found the right version of the song (otherwise, it is not bachelor in your programme), you can now add it to a custom playlist or your music library.

Note, please see the music commands in the chapter to a higher place "How to command your Music Library and Playlists?"

iii. Play the "right" song with voice from your library

At present, that you've added the "right" version of the song to your playlist/library, as Alexa searches first in "My Music" (thank you, Brantome!),  and so the Amazon Music catalog or samples from the Digital Music Shop, y'all only need to enquire again for the title to hear your preferred version.

• Alexa, play <championship>

Please note, it takes a couple of seconds to synchronize your Music Library with Alexa. Yous can immediately enforce hearing your preferred version of a song past adding "Alexa, play <title> from my library".

For Spotify you can simply request your playlist, which now contains the preferred version of your vocal:

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

How to Heed To Podcasts?

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

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

• Alexa, (can you) recommend a podcast

If you lot have a preferred topic, similar astrophysics, sports, tiptop-rated, fun, kids, finance, relationship, business concern, history, stress-relief, popular, spooky, science, self-help, career, technology, comedy, etc. you can enquire for the topic:

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

If you already know which podcast yous'd like to mind to, but request:

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

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

• Alexa, resume my podcast

To navigate within i podcast, we can say:

• Alexa, skip dorsum/forward x seconds/minutes

To navigate between podcasts, nosotros have following command:

• Alexa, (play the) previous/next episode

Annotation, specially heavy Podcast listeners might feel that they have more than playback control when using their Podcast app and streaming to their Amazon Echo device via Bluetooth or SpotifyConnect.

🟧 Skipping back/forward within an episode does non work on Spotify.

TuneIn Podcasts

Alexa'due south pre-installed default service for podcasts is TuneIn. You lot can scan the Top ten TuneIn Podcasts and the Full TuneIn Podcast catalog on the web or in the TuneIn app.

Spotify Podcasts

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

1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More than' button.
2. Select "Settings" and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and so on "Spotify."
4. Tap "Enable to utilise" and enter your Spotify account data
5. Tap Concur to let Alexa access your Spotify account
6. Tap Done

Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts demand to be separately linked in the Alexa app. You tin 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 than' push button.
2. Select "Settings" and and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and and so on "Apple Podcasts."
4. Tap "Enable to utilise" (Notation, Apple Podcasts will employ 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 can even resume the podcast yous've listened to on your Amazon Echo Machine, your Amazon Music app, and your Amazon Echo devices. Just ask Alexa to resume your podcast.

Setting the Default Podcast Service

Once you lot accept linked your favorite Podcast service, you should gear up information technology as your default Podcast service. Otherwise, you lot will need to suspend "… on Apple Podcasts" or "on Spotify" to your Podcast request. To set your default Podcast service:

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

Alexa's Podcast Skills

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

How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker?

You can easily command the music playback of another Repeat device by proverb:

• Alexa, play <song/anthology/artist/genre> on <Echo'due south name>
• Alexa, previous/side by side on <Echo'due south name>
• Alexa, finish/pause/resume on <Repeat's name>

You tin group your Repeat devices for music playback either through smart dwelling house groups or multi-room music groups:

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

Smart Abode Groups

Yous can create Smart Dwelling house Groups which typically represent your rooms (due east.g. office) and add your smart dwelling house devices and Echos located in this room. An Echo device can only be added to ane smart dwelling house 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 tin create multi-room music groups (e.g. everywhere, upstairs, downstairs). An Repeat device can be in multiple multi-room music groups.

• Alexa, play music downstairs

will play music on all Echo devices in the downstairs multi-room music (grouping).

Audio Organisation

The audio system setup allows yous to create stereo pairs of two compatible Repeat devices and an optional subwoofer. You tin can also fix a abode theater by connecting upwardly to two compatible Echo devices and an optional Repeat Sub as speakers for a compatible Burn TV stick.

🟩 This Alexa feature is available for all music services.

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

How to move music wherever we go?

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

Let's say we move from A to B, where A and B could be any Echo device, including Echo buds and Echo Auto, or a room/group, or a multi-room music grouping.

While still at A, nosotros tin either pause the music to not miss a beat while we get to B:

• Alexa, pause

Or, we tin move the content instantly to B:

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

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

• Alexa, resume music/podcast/radio here

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

• Alexa, move my music/podcast/radio hither

You tin find more information from Amazon here.

🟩 This Alexa feature is available for all music services.

What is the Preferred Speaker Fix-Up?

You can gear up a preferred speaker of a smart home group to stream to with "Alexa, play music." The preferred speaker can be an Repeat device, a speaker from Bose or Sonos, a multi-room music group, or a speaker set. Just tap on "preferred speaker" at the lesser of your smart home grouping to configure it.

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

How to set a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?

To set a sleep timer, we can say:

• Alexa set a slumber timer for 30 seconds/minutes/hours
• Alexa, stop playing in 1 hour
• Alexa, abolish the slumber timer

We tin can now asking 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 eye of the story you are reading, or only asleep please see – Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambient Scenes and Sounds

We tin can set a music alarm by maxim:

• Alexa ready a music alarm
• Alexa, wake me up to music (thanks, Kelly!)

Alexa will come back with "Alarm for what time" and we can set a erstwhile or repeating alarm by maxim, eastward.grand. "at vii a.g. every Tuesday". Nosotros tin can also tell her in one control:

• Alexa wake me up to music at 6 AM (every weekday)

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

• Alexa, wake me upwards to <song/album/artist/genre/playlist/radio station>

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

Delight discover our dedicated Alexa Alarm post here: Alexa Alarms, the Smarter Alert Clock!

Note: If you have non set the music service you'd like to hear every bit default music service, add east.g. "… on TuneIn" to your command.

Pro-Tip: (thanks, Kelly!) We tin can currently only set Music Alarms with voice commands. In that location is also an option to create scheduled Alexa Routines to play music at a specific time. Please, exist careful with Routines instead of Regular/Music Alarms, equally they won't activate if your Repeat loses WiFi or Cyberspace connection. Music Alarms are safe, every bit they get converted into regular alarms in case the Echo device goes offline, and those work offline as well. You lot tin can notwithstanding create Alexa Routines, which run when you lot dismiss an Alexa Alarm or Music Warning. Please check out our post: Alexa Alarms, the Smarter Alarm Clock!

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

Some other Pro-Tip: You tin can find the volume for the (Music) Alarm in the device settings: Devices Tab / Echo & Alexa (top left) / Your Echo device / Sounds / "Alarms, Timers, and Notifications." Ascending book works currently merely for Regular Alarms.

How to Create Your Own Music Commands With Alexa Routines?

Up to now, we were looking into predefined music commands. Just in that location is a powerful feature that can assistance us to create our own voice commands to heed to whatsoever we like and even more.

If you are completely new to Alexa Routines, y'all 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, please see Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambience Scenes and Sounds.

Creating a Simple Alexa Routine with Vocalisation

There is a surprisingly like shooting fish in a barrel style to create an Alexa Routine, nosotros just demand to say:

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

Alexa will come back with: "Great! I created your Routine. When you lot say (command), then I will (do something). Change it anytime in the Routine Section of the Alexa app."

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

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

Just this is just the beginning, only one uncomplicated action. Nosotros tin can now suit this single activity and add as many additional deportment as we like.

Allow'south beginning with a Adept Night Routine. If y'all already accept a "goodnight" playlist, you tin can follow along. Otherwise, just use your favorite anthology/artist/genre/playlist/radio station.

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

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

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

Editing our Elementary Alexa Routine in the Alexa App

Where to find your Alexa Routines …

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

• prepare the proper volume for falling asleep
• loop our "goodnight" playlist
• for a period of fourth dimension, e.one thousand. ii hours

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

Within our Routines, nosotros'll find the routine we've created with our voice: "Alexa, goodnight".

• Underneath the "Add Action" button, we'll observe the action we told Alexa earlier: "play goodnight playlist." Merely tap on it.
• We can now edit the action and add "on loop" to our command, "goodnight playlist on loop."
• Underneath, tap on the "Timer" and select for how long, e.g. 2 hours.

Let's speedily add some other action to brand sure that the book is ready appropriately.

Tap on "Add action," "Device Settings," Volume, and select something between 10-20% or any volume which suits you. Tap "Adjacent" to ostend.

Our "goodnight" Routine with the appropriate volume setting

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

Please check out our adjacent section for another routine example.

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

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

Upwardly to at present, nosotros've looked into creating an Alexa Routine with a vocalism command and afterwards editing this uncomplicated Routine in the Alexa app. Permit's create a routine from scratch in the Alexa app. When nosotros say:

• Alexa, information technology's dinner fourth dimension

Alexa will:

• denote that "Dinner is Fix" on all our Repeat devices
• turn off the TV
• gear up the right calorie-free scene(s)
• play some dinner music

Earlier we brainstorm, here's a quick overview of all the dissimilar options we have in the Alexa app. When nosotros create a new routine past navigating to the 'More' push / Routines / "+" (elevation correct), nosotros tin can specify one trigger for "When this happens," which can be:

• a voice command,
• a schedule/time of day, which tin can be reoccurring
• the push on an Echo push button, or
• a motion/contact sensor that senses movement / or opening of a door/window (currently only limited devices like SmartThings support that)
• when an Alexa Warning is dismissed.

And in i Routine, we tin combine many different deportment, similar

• setting the device volume 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
• decision-making our smart home devices
• playing a traffic report
• playing the weather condition report
• and last, just non least: playing a song/artist/playlist from a music provider, like Amazon Music/Our Library/Spotify/TuneIn for a certain duration on a specific Repeat device or Multi-Room Music Group

Our Dinner Time Routine: announcements, smart domicile and music deportment

1. Allow's start by tapping on "When this happens," select "Vocalism," and type in "it's dinner time." Confirm with "Next" at the height right.
2. To add the announcement:
   • Tap on "Add Activeness," then "Messaging," and "Ship Proclamation."
   • Type in the message, similar "dinner is set! hurry up!". Confirm with "Next" at the top correct.
   • Leave "All Devices" checked, or select the devices which volition receive the announcement. Ostend with "Next" at the meridian right.
   • You'll see the confirmation "Alexa will announce 'dinner is ready' on All Devices." Confirm with "Next" at the tiptop right.
3. To turn off the Boob tube (assuming you lot have a Logitech Harmony)
   • Tap on "Add Action," so "Smart Home," then "Control Scene," and select the name of your Logitech Harmony running, e.yard. "TV."
   • Prepare Ability to "Off" and confirm by tapping "Side by side" at the meridian right.
4. To set the correct light scenes (assuming y'all have Philips Hue)
   • Tap on "Add together Action," then "Smart Home," then "Control Scene," and select your preferred scenes. We'll prepare the living room to the scene "Relax."
   • Add any additional lite scenes, east.chiliad., fix the dining area a bit brighter (hither to "Read")
5. To play dinner music:
   • Tap on "Add Activity", and so "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, information technology's dinner time!"

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

Pro-Tip: The brilliant example from Brantome (Thank you!), shows the powerful flexibility of music routines: "You lot tin add "shuffle" to a play-action in a routine, plus y'all can also direct the output to a group, not just a unmarried device past adding the group's proper name to the end of the play-action text e.thousand. "good stuff playlist shuffle downstairs" will shuffle my 'expert stuff' playlist on my Downstairs group." The play command would expect like: "<playlist proper name> playlist shuffle <multi-room music group proper name>".

Please note, Do NOT give your Multi-Room music group a "custom name", rather select a suitable "common proper noun" from Alexa'due south list, considering 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 book of individual devices of a multi-room music speaker group

Note, "On the now playing screen in the Alexa app, you tin can select the volume icon and accommodate the volume slider for each device in a group." (Thank you, Brantome!)

What songs can Alexa sing?

There are so many Alexa songs – we've found 288 upwards to now – so we had to create a dedicated post simply for them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain Alexa singing! Welcome to smartenlight flight number 288, non-finish from your couch to Federal republic of germany, the The states, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Canada, French republic, Italian republic, Brazil and dorsum to your couch": Alexa, sing a vocal! A Musical Globe Trip with 288 Alexa Songs

Just I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For!

Sorry! There are then many interesting topics effectually music, and though we –  everyone who takes the fourth dimension to contribute to this postal service – take climbed the highest mountains … we might have missed what's important to you! Delight bring together us past taking the fourth dimension to share your Alexa music experiences, questions, and answers in our word section below! You lot are helping to better this post for everyone!

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

To support the evolution of the Alexa music commands and features we are missing, we demand to transport feedback to Amazon! It's easy, and we can practice it direct from the Alexa app:

1. Tap the 'More than' button select "Assist & Feedback."
2. Select "Send Feedback"
3. Select the category "Music & Apps."
4. Select "other problems" or, similar in this example, "Incorrect vocal or radio station."
5. Draw the music control that doesn't work for yous, ideally by additionally giving a command example, like "Alexa, skip 50 songs," skips only one song.
6. Tap "Send Feedback"

Conclusion

Alexa supports, especially with Amazon Music as a service, many novel music features. She has even learned to requite u.s. some music information recently. And now, in 2021, nosotros just received Hard disk drive and 3D audio content at no boosted toll. What a present for audiophiles!

Sleep timers and music alarms are helpful features supported across different music services. Alexa'due south Routines are a powerful characteristic to create our ain voice commands to integrate our music into unproblematic or more than complex routines. Multi-Room Music Groups and Preferred Speakers for Smart Domicile Groups help united states of america to streamline our music feel throughout our home.

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Happy Alexa Music!

P.S. You can observe more Alexa posts here: Amazon Alexa.
P.P.S. For more data from Amazon, delight see:
Amazon: Mind to your music
Amazon Music Unlimited FAQ
What are the Differences Between the Amazon Music Subscriptions?

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