Alexa Cast Sends Tunes From Amazon Music App to Speakers

Adept news for Amazon Music listeners who likewise take an Alexa-enabled device. Amazon just introduced a new characteristic chosen Alexa Cast, which will let you send music to your Alexa device from the Amazon Music app on your iOS or Android device.

"With this new characteristic customers tin can hands transition the playlist they were listening to on their commute home from their Amazon Music app to Alexa devices in their living room when they walk in the door," Amazon said in a statement. "Even if you switch to voice controls, the Amazon Music app volition match the progress of the music playback."

To try information technology out, you'll need to update the Amazon Music app or download it from the App Shop or Google Play. Then, become to the "now playing" view to discover the Alexa Cast icon. Tap that icon to bring up a list of bachelor Alexa-enabled devices, select one or a group, and voila.

At this point, Alexa Cast only works with Amazon Music, but an Amazon spokesperson said the company plans to make the feature bachelor to other music services at some point in the hereafter.

The Amazon Music app offers Prime members access to a "curated catalog of two million songs, playlists, and stations." You tin also upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for access to "tens of millions" of tracks. New users tin get a xxx-day free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited; afterwards that, it costs $vii.99 a month if you're a Prime member or $9.99 a calendar month if yous're not.

Meanwhile, Amazon likewise this calendar week appear that all Alexa devices can at present automatically take reward of a feature called Echo Spatial Perception, which analyzes your vocalisation and determines which Alexa gadget should respond, so multiple gadgets don't answer you lot at the same time.

That means all your Echo devices and third-party Alexa-enabled gadgets should soon communicate better with each other, so just the closest i wakes when you utter a command.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'southward practiced on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of continued wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela besides tests smart dwelling devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper name a few.