Amazon Music App Gets Hands-Free Alexa Control

Cueing upward the next song in the Amazon Music app is about to get a footling easier.

Amazon today added Alexa wake word back up for app users in the US and Canada. That means yous tin can now apply Alexa voice controls to play tunes in the app completely hands gratis, just like you would on an Echo smart speaker.

Amazon starting time added Alexa support to the app in September, but until now you lot could only get the virtual assistant's attention with a tap, which isn't ever convenient. At present, you can wake Alexa with your voice. This highly requested feature works when the Amazon Music app is open up and in the foreground on your iOS or Android smartphone.

"Providing hands-gratis listening in the app has been one of the acme requests by Amazon Music customers," Amazon said in a statement.

Just say, "Alexa, play the latest song past Camilla Cabello," for instance, or "Alexa, play the Drake playlist I was listening to concluding week." If you can't recollect the name of the song yous want to heed to, just spit out whatever lyrics you know, and Alexa may be able to identify it for you.

With Alexa phonation controls, you can play music by mood, activity, genre, artist, or song title equally well as suspension tracks and motion dorsum and forth between songs in the app.

To effort out this new easily-free music listening characteristic, update your Amazon Music app for iOS or Android. If y'all're not into this feature, you can turn it off via settings.

Virtually Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's skillful on fettle and smart home products. Education yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart domicile devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to proper noun a few.