To play personal music from Apple Music on your Alexa device, you can upload the converted Apple Music songs to My Music on Amazon from your Mac or PC. After you finishing uploading music, you can ask Alexa to play your Apple Music songs on Amazon Echo and control playback with simple voice commands. My Media for Alexa lets you ask Alexa devices, such as Amazon Echo and the Amazon Dot, to play music from your existing home media library. After installing our app on your computer, My Media will index your media and let Alexa respond to commands such as 'Alexa, ask My Media to play music by Ed Sheeran' Read More! To play your own MP3s (or music encoded in other formats, such as FLAC) on the Echo or other Alexa-compatible devices, you can still use Plex or My Media Server for Alexa, both of which allow you. Dec 01, 2020 Ask Alexa to play your music You can ask Alexa to play songs, artists, albums, or genres from Apple Music. You can also play playlists from Apple Music's editors or playlists in your iCloud Music Library. Say something like 'Alexa, play Chill radio on Apple Music,' or 'Alexa, play Ariana Grande on Apple Music.'
Alexa, play Z100 (insert name of your favorite station!)
Your Echo speaker can be your radio too!
Alexa radio available content
You should be able to access practically any radio station in the world.
How to use Alexa as your radio
There's a chance that Alexa will be able to play the station you want to listen to without any set-up. Try saying 'Alexa, play [insert name of your favorite station].'
Alexa Play Music From Local Hard Drive
If you're trying to listen to a super local or niche radio station, the Alexa command above might not work. Try playing the station using the myTuner Radio Alexa skill. This skill provides access to 50,000+ free radio stations from over 200 countries. Just say 'Alexa, ask myTuner Radio to play [insert name of your favorite station].'
Enable the myTuner Radio skill by following the set-up instructions below.
myTuner Radio Set-up
Set-up time: 30 seconds or less Free play roulette.
To enable the myTuner Radio Alexa skill, tap/click here and then tap/click the Enable button.
You can also follow these 7 steps…
- Open your Alexa app
- Tap the hamburger icon in the upper left corner
- Tap Skills & Games
- Tap the magnifying glass in the upper right corner
- Type 'myTuner Radio' in the search field and tap the Search button the keyboard
- Tap myTuner Radio from the results
- Tap the Enable To Use button
Pro Tips
Pro Tip #1
If you have an iHeart Radio account, be sure to link it in Alexa Settings.
Pro Tip #2
Just say 'Alexa, stop' Mac program to edit pdf. to turn the radio off.
Alexa Play Music From Local Machine
See Also
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