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Permit'southward gloat Alexa's altogether with an update on the new features she recently brought usa to enjoy music on our Amazon Echos. We tin 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 at present supported on all headphones, and Alexa volition adjust her speaking volume to the ambient dissonance at our home.

In this post, we will look into all the Alexa music commands to savour all the music services supported past our Amazon Echos. We will embrace bones volume and playback commands, too as tips and tricks on how to manage and mind to your favorite music. Yous'll find commands for setting sleep timers and music alarms. And, y'all will create your very own music commands with Alexa routines.

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1. Exercise you have time? Wonderful, keep reading. This post is quite detailed equally it has evolved over the years. You will go a expert overview of all the Alexa music features and services.
2. Would you like to see which Alexa music control works for which service? Take a look at our "Alexa Music Commands Bound Table", which gives you 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're interested in. Swipe or tap back to return to the table.
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Table of contents

• Alexa's Music Services
  • Amazon's Music Services
    • Amazon Music Gratuitous (ad-supported)
    • Amazon Music Prime number
    • Amazon Music Unlimited (includes now Hd and 3D content)
  • Apple Music
  • Spotify's Music Services
    • Spotify Free (advertizement-supported)
    • Spotify Premium
  • Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services
• How to set up Alexa Music Services?
  • How to Link a Music Service?
  • How to set your Favorite Music Service equally the Default?
• Alexa's Music Commands Jump Table
• How to command Alexa's Music Book?
• How to allow Alexa whisper?
• How to let Alexa automatically adjust her Speaking Volume?
• How to make Alexa speak faster/slower?
• How to follow an Artist with Alexa?
• How to command Alexa'south Music Playback?
• How to control Alexa's Equalizer?
• How to navigate Alexa's Music Library?
  • How to play Music by Title/Anthology/Artist?
  • 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 Hard disk 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 track the songs nosotros listen 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 past Lyrics?
• How to control your Music Library and Playlists?
• How to listen to Alexa'due south 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 find the "right" song by voice
  • 2. Find the "right" song with the music app
  • 3. Play the "right" vocal with vocalism 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 some other Speaker?
  • Smart Habitation Groups
  • Multi-Room Music
  • Audio System
• How to move music wherever we get?
• What is the Preferred Speaker Gear up-Upwards?
• How to set a Slumber Timer and Music Warning?
• How to Create Your Ain Music Commands With Alexa Routines?
  • Creating a Uncomplicated Alexa Routine with Voice
  • Editing our Simple Alexa Routine in the Alexa App
  • Creating an Alexa Routine from Scratch: "Alexa, it'due south Dinner Fourth dimension!"
• What songs tin Alexa sing?
• But I Still Haven't Found What I'chiliad Looking For!
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Alexa's Music Services

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

Depending on your location, you might find 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 y'all are an Amazon Prime member, you'll start with Amazon Music Prime, which is included in your Prime subscription. If non, you'll discover Amazon's Free ad-supported music service. If you don't similar ads or find that ii million songs aren't enough, yous tin subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited with more than 75 million songs. This music service now includes loftier-quality streaming audio with over 75 million songs in Hd and seven million songs in Ultra HD, at no extra cost.

No subscription or credit card required, Amazon's free, advertising-supported Amazon Music service is currently available in the U.S., U.K., and Federal republic of germany (Thanks, Brantome!). You can listen to peak 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" volition enable 14 free days of Amazon Music Unlimited. From time to time, Amazon provides free Amazon Music Unlimited trials for 30 days or 3 months. After the trial period, your subscription renews automatically until canceled.

Amazon Music Prime number

Amazon Music Prime number is included in your Prime number subscription and has – like the advertizing-supported free tier – a limited music library with about two Million songs. It'south advert-free but lacks some features compared to Amazon Music Unlimited, like playing songs by lyrics and admission to all new songs.

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

Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon'south native, and therefore nigh extensive 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 one thousand thousand songs, you tin can choice between the cheaper "Single-Device Plan" to listen just on one single Amazon Echo device, the "Individual plan" to listen to one music stream on all of your Echo devices, or the "Family plan" to mind to up to vi different music streams on all your Echo devices. If you're a student currently enrolled in a degree-granting college or academy, y'all tin can register for the "Pupil plan" (50% off).

As of May 17th, 2021, Amazon Music Unlimited includes the content of Amazon Music Hard disk at no actress cost. With over 75 million songs in High Definition (HD), about double the bitrate of other music services, we can listen to music in CD quality. It also includes over 7 million songs in Ultra Hd (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 (one.v Mbps or higher), a device that supports 16-bit/44.1 kHz or higher (like an iPhone 5s or later), and wired headphones or speakers that support a dynamic range of 20kHz+ for HD or 40 kHz+ for Ultra Hard disk drive.

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

Amazons Hard disk drive 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, Canticle, Aristocracy, aerix, audiolab, Paradigm, Control 4, Rotel, wren, and Soundcast.

Alexa Music Commands Early 2021 – Amazon Music Unlimited includes now Amazon Music Hd at no extra cost!

With the latest update, spatial audio – aka 3D Sound – 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 Echo Studio, Sony SRS-RA3000, and Sony SRS-RA5000. You tin find Amazon's Music Unlimited HD FAQ here.

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Apple Music

Apple Music too provides over 75 meg songs. Yous can pick betwixt an "Individual plan" or a "Family programme" for up to half dozen people. If you're a higher student, you can subscribe to the Educatee plan (l% off).

You tin listen to Apple tree Music beyond all your Apple tree devices and Amazon Echos. It includes many local live radio stations around the earth. You can enjoy Apple Music on your Apple Watch when you are abroad from your iPhone or in your motorcar with CarPlay. Apple offers gratuitous Apple tree Music trials from 30 days to 3 months.

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

Spotify'due south Music Services

Spotify supports Spotify Costless, an advertizement-supported tier. For advertizing-free music, you tin can subscribe to Spotify Premium, available as Individual, Duo, Family, and Educatee plans. All Spotify services tin can likewise stream the music direct 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 1000000 songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, that is, if you can live with ads in your listening experience. Yous can download songs for upward to 14 days for offline listening. Spotify Free works with Alexa in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, French republic, Germany,  Republic of austria, India, Italy, Ireland, Nihon, United mexican states, New Zealand, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. (Thanks, Brantome!)

Spotify Premium

Spotify Premium has over 50 Million songs in its library, this time without advertizing interruptions. You can gear up the audio quality to very loftier (up to 320 kbit/s) and download songs to mind to without an cyberspace connection.

You tin option between "Premium Individual" for 1 person, "Premium Duo" for two people living together for one discounted price, and "Premium Family" for up to 6 people living together. If yous're currently enrolled at an accredited college or university, yous tin get 50% 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, even for activities and moods, you lot tin access it with Alexa.

Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services

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

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How to set upward Alexa Music Services?

Alexa'south music service setup is basically a two-pace process. Beginning, we need to link all the music services we'd like to apply. And then nosotros need to define 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 than' button
2. Select "Settings" and and then "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service," and then on the music service you'd like to link.
4. Tap on "Enable to apply" and enter the music service account information.
5. Tap Washed

You lot can at present use all the music services y'all've linked, merely by adding the service to your asking:

• 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 as 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 department.
4. Tap on your favorite Music service.

At present we can go out out the music service and just accept to say:

• Alexa, play music

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

• Alexa, play a <genre> station
• Alexa, play a <creative person> station

Alexa's Music Commands Jump Table

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. Yous can tap on the colored boxes to leap direct to the music commands yous're interested in.

🟥 not supported 🟧 kind of supported 🟩 fully supported tap for more information	Amazon Music Unlimited	Amazon Prime	Amazon Free	Apple tree Music	Spotify Premium	Spotify Free	Pandora	TuneIn	iHeartRadio
Decision-making the Volume	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩
Controlling the Playback	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Decision-making 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 Popular/Regional Music	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing something you rarely hear	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing something you've heard	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Playing similar music	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Favorites and Similar/Dislike	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟧	🟥	🟧
Playing by lyrics	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Managing your library and playlists	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟧	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟥	🟥
Listening to radio stations	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟩
Getting Music Information	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥
Let Alexa announce every song	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥	🟥
Manage and Listen to Podcasts	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟥	🟩	🟧
Decision-making Music on another Speaker	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩
Setting a Sleep Timer and Music Alert	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟩	🟧	🟧	🟧

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

Pro-Tip: Check out this pro give-and-take virtually different Alexa music services on reddit . (Thanks a lot Brantome!)

How to control Alexa's Music Volume?

Following music commands will alter Alexa's volume in 10% steps:

• Alexa, (alter/make/plow the) volume up/down
• Alexa (make information technology) softer/louder
• Alexa, lower/heighten (the) volume
• Alexa, increase/decrease (the) volume
• Alexa, turn/crank information technology up/down

Another style to specifically gear up the volume level is:

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

Furthermore, nosotros tin can mute Alexa:

• Alexa, mute/unmute

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

• Alexa, volume 3 (in the) <group>

A grouping 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 available for all music services.

Notation: (Cheers, Cindy!) With the volume commands above, due east.g., "Alexa, book upwards/down" or "Alexa, volume 1-10," we control Alexa's voice volume and the Music/Media volume simultaneously. Some music services, wink briefings, etc., do not provide their sound at the aforementioned volume (normalized). Whenever nosotros change their book, we besides change the volume of Alexas vocalisation.

How to let Alexa whisper?

Sometimes, it feels more than appropriate to take Alexa whisper back, rather than waking upward everybody:

• Alexa, turn Whisper Mode on

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

• Alexa, plow Whisper Mode off

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

How to allow Alexa automatically arrange her Speaking Book?

U.S. merely 🇺🇸: In a noisy environment, Alexa can suit her vocalism to the groundwork noise in our home. To make certain that we e'er hear Alexa's response, even around noisy kids, barking dogs or when taking a shower, we just demand to say:

• Alexa, turn on Adaptive Volume

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

How to make Alexa speak faster/slower?

Nosotros tin can adapt Alexa's speaking rate by maxim:

• Alexa, speak faster (Note, upward to 4 times faster)
• Alexa, speak slower (Note, 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 artist by saying:

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

Alexa will and then send you a notification (yellow colour indicator). Bank check them by asking:

• Alexa, what did I miss?
• Alexa, cheque my notifications
• Alexa, read/play my letters

If y'all'd like to stop receiving those notifications:

• Alexa, unfollow <artist>
• Alexa, cease following <artist>

How to command Alexa'southward Music Playback?

You can stop and resume playback by saying:

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

Merely you tin besides play some music y'all might like:

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

If you would like to get some assist from Alexa:

• Alexa, help me find a playlist
• Alexa, assist me find a holiday playlist

And she will inquire you different questions and play previews to find the right playlist for y'all.

To navigate within an album or playlist, just say:

• Alexa, adjacent/previous (song/track/championship)
• Alexa, skip (this vocal)

To navigate within a song, you tin can say:

• Alexa, play (this song) from (the) beginning
• Alexa, restart (this song)
• Alexa, jump/skip back/forwards (x seconds/minute(south))

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

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

Another manner 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/creative person/genre> for x seconds/minutes/hours

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

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

How to command Alexa's Equalizer?

Amazon Echos back up an equalizer to control the bass, mid-range, and treble of our Echo devices. You can bank check the availability of this feature in the Alexa app under Options, your Echo device, sounds. If y'all find an equalizer setting at the top of the folio, the following commands will work.

• Alexa, increase/subtract (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, plow/crank upward/down (the) bass/mid-range/treble
• Alexa, prepare (the) bass/mid-range/treble to minimum/maximum
• Alexa, ready bass/mid-range/treble to (minus); Annotation, we have a range of +/- six dB which we can prepare directly

To get back to neutral EQ settings, nosotros tin 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 and so many ways that lead to your favorite music in the millions of songs that nosotros need to structure this a bit …

How to play Music by Title/Album/Artist?

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

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

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

Nosotros can also jump straight to a rail number on an album (Cheers, David!):

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

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

• Create an iHeartRadio station based on <creative person>
• 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 principal genres from Amazon'southward database:

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

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

How to play Music by Activeness and Mood?

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

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

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

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

Here are some examples ofmoods, which Alexa understands:

• Angry
• Energetic
• Experience Good
• Happy
• Upbeat
• Sad
• Mellow
• Romantic
• Relaxed
• Laid Dorsum

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

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

At present comes the interesting part: Yous tin combine some moods, genres, and activities. Of course, but if Amazon has created a playlist, which matches.

• Alexa, play mellow meditation music
• Alexa, play sad blues music
• Alexa, play happy Latin music
• Alexa, play classical music for sleeping
• Alexa, play mellow land music

🟧 The "gratuitous" services Amazon Prime & Free will more often than not play a station with music like to what y'all've requested (vs. curated playlists with paid services).
🟥 Spotify Free is especially weak in finding combined stations.
🟥 Radio-similar services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.

How to play HD and Ultra HD music?

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

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

Yous can play Ultra Hd music on your Repeat Studio by requesting the Ultra HD playlists:

• Alexa, play the Best of Ultra Hard disk drive playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Dance playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Pop playlist
• Alexa, play the New in Ultra Hard disk playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra HD Chill playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk Classic Rock playlist
• Alexa, play the Ultra Hard disk Land 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 drive Dejection 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's what to say:

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

With Amazon Music Unlimited we take following additional commands:

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

🟧 Amazon Free and Amazon Prime number Music have a limited music library that does non include all new songs.
🟧 Apple Music, Spotify Free, and Premium don't support new genres and new artist music. However, y'all tin can use your "New Music Mix" or your "Observe Weekly."
🟥 Radio-similar services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.

How to play Pop/Regional Music?

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

• Alexa, play the meridian/all-time songs
• Alexa, play the summit/best songs from the 80s

With Amazon Music Unlimited we have following additional commands:

• Alexa, play the meridian songs in <metropolis>
• Alexa, play what'southward hot in <state>
• Alexa, play the peak/best <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 you rarely hear?

If you lot'd like to hear some songs yous oasis'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 tree Music, Spotify Gratuitous, and Premium don't support this characteristic.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.

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 <day>
• Alexa, play the <creative person/genre> songs I heard <yesterday (morning/afternoon) / last night>

🟥 Amazon Free, 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 lone crewman, guess which one?

How to track the songs we mind to in Google Sheets with IFTTT

Sometimes Alexa'south dynamic vocal suggestions are then good, that we forget to tell her which songs nosotros similar. We call back 1 or ii songs of the mix only cannot recollect when we heard them. And then we cannot employ the voice commands of the previous chapter.

We tin go on a list of all the Amazon Music songs we heed to in a (costless) Google spreadsheet. We'll use the IFTTT service (If-this-so-that) which allows us to connect services similar "Amazon Alexa" with "Google Sheets".

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

1. Create an IFTTT business relationship (complimentary for upwards to three IFTTT applets, nosotros can do this via the web or download the IFTTT app)
2. Create a gratuitous Gmail business relationship
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 account with IFTTT (sign in and tap allow)

The applet volition create a "Songs played" Google canvas on our Google business relationship and track for every vocal we listen to on our Amazon Echo devices:

• date and fourth dimension,
• artist name,
• vocal proper noun,
• and anthology.

Now we simply need to search this list and use it every bit inspiration for our own playlists. Thanks, Donald and Brantome!

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

If Alexa'south playlist and station recommendations fit your musical gustatory modality, and you'd like to look up which playlists or stations she'due south playing to be able to request them later, open the Alexa app and tap on the 'Play' button at the bottom of the screen. Yous'll find the recently played playlists, stations, and channels beyond all the music services you are using. (Thanks, Val!)

Please note, we have not constitute a voice control still, to request this information on the fly.

How to play Like Music?

At that place's this i catchy tune and you lot'd like to hear more than like that:

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

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

🟥 Apple Music, Spotify Free, and Premium don't support this feature.
🟥 Radio-similar 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 tin can play stations based on your preferences:

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

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

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

Only in instance there's this one nasty tune hunting the states, and we take Amazon Music, let's skip it from now on:

• I'm tired of this song

🟥 For Like/Dislike on Apple Music, Alexa returns: "Sure, your feedback is saved." Nosotros cannot observe the feedback reflected in Apple Music. "Play music I like" will play your personal Apple Music station.
🟥 Like/Dislike on Spotify returns: "You can merely ready thumbs upwards or down for a vocal playing on your custom stations." Not sure what she means, we tried with playlists, stations, and personalized stations like "Find Weekly." Information technology does non work for us. "Play music I similar" will play your liked songs, which you'll need to "thumb upwards" in the Spotify app.
🟧 According to their documentation, Pandora and iHeartRadio support "thumbs upwardly/down". As we've failed to verify, we're leaving this feature on orangish.

How to play Songs past Lyrics?

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

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

🟧 Amazon Free and Prime will play a station based on the vocal lyrics.
🟩 Playing songs by lyrics is but supported by Amazon Music Unlimited.

Pro-Tip: Echo Shows are great to sing forth. With Amazon Music, they display song lyrics during playback.

How to control 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 can control what goes into your Amazon Music library past proverb:

• Alexa, add this song to my library

And you can command what you'd like to hear from in that location:

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

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

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

How to listen to Alexa's 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

Annotation: if you want to listen to a different service, add, due east.grand. "… on TuneIn" to your command.

You tin can also check out radio skills in the Alexa app: Open the Alexa app and tap on the 'More' push button, then on "Skills & Games." Either search for "radio" with the lens symbol (meridian right) or select "Music and Audio" from the categories. You lot'll notice over vi,000 radio skills.

🟧 TuneIn does not support genres merely 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 Data?

Alexa'due south music knowledge has quite expanded. She can requite u.s.a. the following music information when we inquire about 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's <artist> newest album?
• Alexa, who plays the <instrument> (in this (song))?
• Alexa, what'due south the vocal that goes <lyrics snippet>?
• Alexa, what was the tiptop vocal in <yr>

Note, this characteristic will non piece of work for every song every bit music information for some songs is missing.

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

How to permit Alexa denote every song?

A new feature only supported for Amazon Music is called Song ID. If information technology's turned on by:

• Alexa, plough on Vocal ID

Alexa volition denote the title and artist of every vocal you are playing. You tin can plow this feature off by saying:

• Alexa, turn off Vocal ID

🟩 Song ID works simply for Amazon Music.

How to become the "right" version of a song?

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

When you ask Alexa to play a song past <championship>, you might hear the "wrong" vocal. Maybe Alexa will play a completely different song, not the creative person yous expected, a bad comprehend version, or the alive version, and yous want to hear the studio version or vice versa.

There could be many different reasons for this unexpected Alexa beliefs:

• she has too many versions of this song title in her music library and too petty data which song you actually meant,
• she tries to please the masses and takes the popularity of vocal versions into account,
• she tries to salvage some money and plays cheaper covers/versions of a song (particularly for smaller plans),
• or she has not figured out your musical gustatory modality yet.

one. Try to notice the "correct" song past voice

Whatever the reason might be, it's definitely worth trying to be more specific in your Alexa music commands. Here'south how to try to get the right version of a song by giving Alexa more than information:

1. Alexa, play <title> Let'south assume this plays the "wrong" song
2. Alexa, play <title> by <artist> Try this, if it's 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 <artist>). Attempt this if y'all'd like to hear the live/studio version of a song. You tin can also effort: acoustic, remastered, remixed, lullaby, instrumental, or even different language versions.

two. Find the "right" vocal with the music app

If this doesn't help, vocalization commands will unlikely help you lot to observe the correct version of the song. In this example, it's all-time to search with your music app (e.g., Amazon Music, Apple Music, or the Spotify app).

Assuming you've found the right version of the vocal (otherwise, it is non available in your programme), y'all can now add together it to a custom playlist or your music library.

Notation, please see the music commands in the affiliate above "How to control your Music Library and Playlists?"

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

Now, that yous've added the "correct" version of the song to your playlist/library, as Alexa searches get-go in "My Music" (thank you, Brantome!),  then the Amazon Music catalog or samples from the Digital Music Store, y'all just demand to inquire again for the title to hear your preferred version.

• Alexa, play <title>

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

For Spotify you 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 Podcasts, and more than recently Amazon Music.

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

• Alexa, (can yous) recommend a podcast

If you have a preferred topic, like astrophysics, sports, top-rated, fun, kids, finance, relationship, business, history, stress-relief, pop, spooky, science, self-help, career, engineering science, comedy, etc. yous can ask for the topic:

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

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

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

If you have already listened to a Podcast, Alexa 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 have following command:

• Alexa, (play the) previous/next episode

Note, peculiarly heavy Podcast listeners might experience that they take 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 not work on Spotify.

TuneIn Podcasts

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

Spotify Podcasts

Spotify podcasts are already gear up when you 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 up the Alexa app and tap on the 'More than' push.
2. Select "Settings" and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and so on "Spotify."
4. Tap "Enable to use" and enter your Spotify account information
5. Tap Agree to let Alexa admission your Spotify business relationship
6. Tap Washed

Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts need 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 and so "Music & Podcasts."
3. Tap on "Link New Service" and then on "Apple Podcasts."
4. Tap "Enable to use" (Note, Apple Podcasts volition 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 gear up it as your default podcast service.

Pro-Tip: With Amazon Music, y'all tin can fifty-fifty resume the podcast you'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 you have linked your favorite Podcast service, you lot should prepare it as your default Podcast service. Otherwise, yous will need to suspend "… on Apple tree Podcasts" or "on Spotify" to your Podcast asking. To set your default Podcast service:

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

Alexa's Podcast Skills

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

How to Command Music Playback on some other Speaker?

You tin hands control the music playback of another Echo device by maxim:

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

Y'all can grouping your Repeat devices for music playback either through smart home groups or multi-room music groups:

• Alexa, play <vocal/album/creative person/genre> in the <grouping>
• Alexa, adjacent in <group>
• Alexa, finish in <grouping>
• Alexa, play <vocal/album/artist/genre> everywhere
• Alexa, book 3 (in the) <group>

Smart Home Groups

Y'all can create Smart Dwelling house Groups which typically represent your rooms (due east.thou. office) and add your smart abode devices and Echos located in this room. An Echo device can just exist added to one smart habitation group.

• Alexa, play music in the office

volition play music on all Repeat devices in the part (group).

Multi-Room Music

To play music in multiple rooms, you tin create multi-room music groups (due east.1000. everywhere, upstairs, downstairs). An Echo device can be in multiple multi-room music groups.

• Alexa, play music downstairs

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

Sound System

The audio organisation setup allows you to create stereo pairs of ii compatible Echo devices and an optional subwoofer. You lot can too set upward a dwelling house theater past connecting upward to two compatible Repeat devices and an optional Echo Sub as speakers for a compatible Burn down Television stick.

🟩 This Alexa characteristic is bachelor for all music services.

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

How to move music wherever we get?

This long-awaited feature (give thanks you, Brantome!) lets united states of america take the music, podcasts, and radio stations we're currently listening to, with u.s.a.. Wherever we become.

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

While still at A, we can either intermission the music to not miss a beat out while we go to B:

• Alexa, pause

Or, we can motion the content instantly to B:

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

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

• Alexa, resume music/podcast/radio here

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

• Alexa, move my music/podcast/radio hither

You tin can find more information from Amazon here.

🟩 This Alexa feature is available for all music services.

What is the Preferred Speaker Set-Upwards?

You lot can set a preferred speaker of a smart home grouping to stream to with "Alexa, play music." The preferred speaker tin exist an Repeat device, a speaker from Bose or Sonos, a multi-room music group, or a speaker ready. Just tap on "preferred speaker" at the bottom of your smart domicile group to configure it.

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

How to fix a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?

To fix a slumber timer, we can say:

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

We can now request a song, album, creative person, or genre and specify for how long Alexa shall play it (Thanks a lot, Brantome!):

• Alexa, play <championship/anthology/creative person/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 middle of the story you are reading, or just comatose please run across – Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambient Scenes and Sounds

We tin set a music alarm by saying:

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

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Alexa will come back with "Alarm for what time" and we can ready a one-fourth dimension or repeating alert by maxim, e.g. "at 7 a.1000. every Tuesday". Nosotros can likewise tell her in one control:

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

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

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

• Alexa, wake me upward to <song/anthology/creative person/genre/playlist> at 7 AM (every Tuesday)
• Alexa, wake me up to the vocal that goes <lyrics> at 8 AM (at weekends)
• Alexa, cancel/disable (the) 7 am alarm
• Alexa, cancel/disable (all) alarm/south

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

Note: If you have non set the music service y'all'd like to hear equally default music service, add e.1000. "… on TuneIn" to your command.

Pro-Tip: (thanks, Kelly!) Nosotros tin can currently only set Music Alarms with voice commands. There is too 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 activate if your Echo loses WiFi or Net connexion. Music Alarms are safe, every bit they become converted into regular alarms in case the Echo device goes offline, and those piece of work offline likewise. You tin can nonetheless create Alexa Routines, which run when you dismiss an Alexa Warning or Music Alarm. Please check out our mail service: Alexa Alarms, the Smarter Alarm Clock!

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

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

How to Create Your Own Music Commands With Alexa Routines?

Up to now, we were looking into predefined music commands. But there is a powerful characteristic that tin can help usa to create our ain vocalization commands to heed to whatever 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 want to lookout man Alexa herself, creating a bedtime story Routine, please come across Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambience Scenes and Sounds.

Creating a Uncomplicated Alexa Routine with Voice

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

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

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

We can employ this to control our smart home quickly: "Alexa, when I say goodnight, turn off the bedchamber lights," or as a quick remedy for all these songs our kids beloved merely we can't hear any more:

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

But this is just the beginning, just one simple action. We can at present conform this single action and add together as many additional actions as nosotros like.

Let'south get-go with a Good Night Routine. If you already accept a "goodnight" playlist, you can follow forth. Otherwise, merely use your favorite anthology/artist/genre/playlist/radio station.

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

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

But what if we'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 Unproblematic 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:

• set up the proper volume for falling asleep
• loop our "goodnight" playlist
• for a menses of time, e.g. 2 hours

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

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

• Underneath the "Add Action" button, we'll find the action we told Alexa earlier: "play goodnight playlist." Just tap on it.
• We tin at present edit the activeness and add "on loop" to our command, "goodnight playlist on loop."
• Underneath, tap on the "Timer" and select for how long, due east.g. 2 hours.

Permit's rapidly add some other activeness to brand certain that the book is ready appropriately.

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

Our "goodnight" Routine with the advisable volume setting

Now, we have 2 deportment in our "Goodnight" routine: Alexa will lower the volume and play our "Goodnight" routine on loop for 2 hours. Nice!

Please check out our next department for another routine instance.

Notation, Alexa Routines require WiFi and an Net connection to run. If your Repeat loses connection to your Wifi and Internet during playback, the music playback will be interrupted. This can besides happen if your Echo receives a remote firmware update and has to reboot during the dark.

Creating an Alexa Routine from Scratch: "Alexa, it's Dinner Fourth dimension!"

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

• Alexa, it's dinner time

Alexa will:

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

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

• a voice command,
• a schedule/time of 24-hour interval, which can be reoccurring
• the button on an Echo button, or
• a motion/contact sensor that senses motility / or opening of a door/window (currently only limited devices like SmartThings back up that)
• when an Alexa Alert is dismissed.

And in 1 Routine, we can combine many different actions, like

• 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 Wink Briefing
• decision-making our smart home devices
• playing a traffic report
• playing the weather condition report
• and last, just not to the lowest degree: playing a song/artist/playlist from a music provider, similar Amazon Music/Our Library/Spotify/TuneIn for a certain duration on a specific Echo device or Multi-Room Music Grouping

Our Dinner Time Routine: announcements, smart home and music actions

1. Let'southward first by borer on "When this happens," select "Voice," and type in "it's dinner fourth dimension." Ostend with "Next" at the height correct.
2. To add the announcement:
   • Tap on "Add Action," then "Messaging," and "Send Annunciation."
   • Type in the message, like "dinner is set up! hurry up!". Ostend with "Adjacent" at the elevation right.
   • Leave "All Devices" checked, or select the devices which volition receive the announcement. Confirm with "Adjacent" at the top correct.
   • You'll see the confirmation "Alexa volition announce 'dinner is ready' on All Devices." Confirm with "Next" at the top right.
3. To turn off the TV (assuming y'all take a Logitech Harmony)
   • Tap on "Add Action," then "Smart Home," then "Control Scene," and select the name of your Logitech Harmony running, due east.one thousand. "TV."
   • Set Power to "Off" and confirm by tapping "Next" at the elevation right.
4. To set the right light scenes (assuming you accept Philips Hue)
   • Tap on "Add together Action," then "Smart Dwelling house," then "Control Scene," and select your preferred scenes. We'll ready the living room to the scene "Relax."
   • Add together any boosted light scenes, eastward.g., set the dining area a fleck brighter (here to "Read")
5. To play dinner music:
   • Tap on "Add Activity", and so "Music" and type in "dinner music" (or your preferred album/creative person/genre/playlist/radio station for dinner)
   • Tap on "From" and select your preferred music service.

We are ready:

• "Alexa, information technology'south dinner time!"

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

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

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

You lot can control the book of individual devices of a multi-room music speaker grouping

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

What songs can Alexa sing?

In that location are so many Alexa songs – nosotros've institute 288 up to now – and so we had to create a dedicated post just for them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain Alexa singing! Welcome to smartenlight flying number 288, not-stop from your couch to Germany, the Us, Great britain, India, Commonwealth of australia, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Brazil and back to your burrow": Alexa, sing a vocal! A Musical World Trip with 288 Alexa Songs

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

Sorry! There are so many interesting topics around music, and though nosotros –  everyone who takes the time to contribute to this mail – have climbed the highest mountains … nosotros might have missed what'southward important to you! Please join usa past taking the time to share your Alexa music experiences, questions, and answers in our discussion section below! Y'all are helping to improve this mail for anybody!

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. Only once you try a command and information technology does not piece of work for you, you lot'll rarely endeavor information technology once more …

To support the evolution of the Alexa music commands and features we are missing, we demand to ship feedback to Amazon! It'south like shooting fish in a barrel, and we can do information technology direct from the Alexa app:

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

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Conclusion

Alexa supports, especially with Amazon Music as a service, many novel music features. She has even learned to give united states of america some music data recently. And now, in 2021, nosotros just received Hard disk drive and 3D sound content at no boosted toll. What a present for audiophiles!

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

We promise you lot've enjoyed this extensive listing of Alexa'southward music commands. If aye, delight consider helping this living post to grow by sharing it with friends and family. Thank you!

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Happy Alexa Music!

P.S. You tin can detect more Alexa posts hither: Amazon Alexa.
P.P.S. For more than information from Amazon, delight meet:
Amazon: Heed to your music
Amazon Music Unlimited FAQ
What are the Differences Between the Amazon Music Subscriptions?

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