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Learn how to use Alexa Cast to stream music from your Amazon Music app to any of your Alexa devices. Find out the features, requirements, and FAQs of this new feature that works with Amazon Music Unlimited and Prime Music.
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Jul 29, 2018 · Learn how to cast any song from your iOS or Android device to an Alexa speaker or a third-party smart speaker with Alexa enabled. This feature works with Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited, and will support other music services soon.
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- What Is Alexa Cast?
- Why Use Alexa Cast?
- What Music Services Does Alexa Cast Work with?
- What Devices Support Alexa Cast?
- How to Use Alexa Cast
- What Controls Does Alexa Cast offer?
- What About Switching The Music Back to Your Phone Or Other Echos?
- What Else Do You Need to Know?
- Isn't This The Same as Spotify Connect?
Alexa Cast is a wireless casting protocol that will enable control and playback of Amazon Music on compatible devices, i.e., an Amazon Echo. Casting sends the control signal from your phone to the speaker you want to play the music on - your Amazon Echo. That Amazon Echo then collects the Amazon Music stream from the cloud and starts playing it. Th...
Alexa Cast makes it easier to control Amazon Music playback on your Echo devices, meaning you don't have to use voice control, so you can seamlessly move the music from listening on your phone to playing on your Echo. It's also great for managing music remotely, for example at a party. You don't have to be within voice range to control the speaker,...
It's designed to work with Amazon Music, so it's primarily a feature that Amazon Music subscribers will want to use to control music playback around their house and compatible Alexa devices.
Alexa Cast is built-in to the Amazon Music app on both Android and iOS. It's currently not supported by the web player version of Amazon music. You need a compatible speaker to cast to, of course, and all the Echo devices are supported. You'll also find that devices compatible with Alexa Voice Services are supported, as well as devices you've enabl...
Using Alexa Cast is actually very simple, just follow these steps: 1. Open Amazon Music 2. Find the music that you want to listen to and select the first song. 3. The Alexa Cast icon will be at the top of the page when you've found the song you want to listen to. 4. Tap the Alexa Cast icon and all the places you can cast Amazon Music to will be lis...
Simple, it will do play, pause, track skipping - in fact all the controls of Amazon Music - so you can make those changes to the music playing on your Echo. You can also control the volume. On Android, you'll be able to use the device volume to change the casting volume, so your Echo will get louder.
This is easy. In the instructions above we detail how to send the music to your speaker - from the same list you'll be able to "disconnect" your Echo and the music will return to playing on your phone. If you want to move the music from one Echo to another, you have to disconnect from the current speaker and then connect to the new one you want to ...
If you're using Alexa Cast, you can still use the Echo as normal, it will respond to voice commands exactly as normal - including skipping tracks or pausing, or playing other music. Just note that if you ask Alexa to play something else, it will play from the default music service. If that's Amazon Music, then fine, if not, then it will revert to a...
Yes and no. Spotify Connect uses a similar approach to casting, whereby you can send the music from the Spotify app on your phone to any compatible speaker - and that includes all Amazon Echo devices, and a lot of other speakers. Spotify has the advantage of also them linking to web apps and PC apps - anywhere you're playing music from your Spotify...
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Jul 31, 2018 · Alexa Cast is a new feature on Amazon products for the streaming and control of media content. It’s similar to Google’s Chromecast and Apple’s AirPlay, and it allows users...
Amazon Music can be cast to an Alexa-enabled Device, excluding Fire TVs, using the Amazon Music app.
Jul 27, 2018 · Alexa Cast allows you to cast audio from the Amazon Music app on your phone to the Echo and Alexa-connected speakers, like the Sonos One, without having to use your voice.
The new feature is called Alexa Cast. It will allow you to play (cast) and control music on any of your Alexa devices from your Amazon Music iOS or Android app. You can discover all your Alexa devices from within your music app. Your devices do not need to be on the same Wi-Fi network as your mobile device.
