![]() If you hear a song you like, just say, " Alexa, add this song to my playlist," or " Alexa, add this song to my playlist." This is a way to save songs that play on a station that you want to remember.Īsk Alexa to play a podcast. You can begin adding songs to the playlists as songs play. " Alexa, create an 'Easy Listening' playlist." To start, you have to create a new playlist. *This can only be done with Amazon Music* How to create a new playlist using your voice “ Alexa, when did this song/album come out?” Some basic commands for playing music are: The TuneIn and, when enabled, RadioPlayer apps react to your voice commands, and will start playing radio stations when you call out Echo's wake word 'Alexa' and the station's name for example: ' Alexa, Play BBC Radio Four Extra' or ' Ask Radioplayer to play BBC Radio Four'. If you want to purchase a music service, Spotify is currently £9.99/month and Amazon Unlimited music starts from £3.99/month.Īlexa, the Echo and Echo Dot's built-in talking digital assistant, can help you listen to any number of radio stations, both in the UK and abroad, thanks to the device's built-in TuneIn app and UK RadioPlayer 'skill', that can be enabled on your Echo or Echo Dot using a smartphone or web browser to set up the skill if it hasn’t been automatically enabled. You can access limited free music based on songs, artists, eras or genres, saying things like, “ Alexa, play the station.” Alexa will keep recommending you purchase Amazon unlimited music after every few songs you play but try out these other options.Ĭhoose one of the free pre-set playlists, including Fuego Latino, Classical for Reading, Natures Sounds for Sleep, Folk Love Songs, Country Heat, 50 Great Rock Guitar Solos. Leuchie currently pay for a Spotify Family account so that we can use Spotify throughout Leuchie. ![]() Guests will be familiar with the Leuchie ‘Alexa’ in the quiet room, often used to play music and for quizzes, which is an Amazon Echo. The Amazon Echo has a better speaker and doesn’t need to be connected to external speakers. We have an Echo Dot, which doesn’t have a great speaker itself, plugged in to our stereo system speakers. We have an Echo dot at home and have set up playlists on Spotify and Amazon Prime music, but also listen to the radio, which is free with Alexa. Most people use Alexa to play music, myself included. " Alexa, what's the weather like?" (it will use your location, if you have allowed it to) You can ask Alexa any questions you can think of, such as: I thought I could put down a few ideas to start you getting use out of Alexa. Quite a few Leuchie guests have told me that they have been given an Alexa but haven’t really used it as they don’t know what it can do.
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