![]() Thanks to Justice for confirming that this approach works well for them: For example, if you have an Echo in your kitchen called “Kitchen Echo”, saying the following will switch music there: There’s two main approaches here: Approach #1: “Alexa, play music on ”įirstly, you can say “ Alexa, play music on ” and it should pause the song on your first Echo device and start playing it on the other Echo device. Since this feature is intrinsic to Spotify, if Spotify is configured as the default music source in your Alexa app (under Settings -> Music -> Default Services) then you should be switch music between rooms. This is called Spotify Connect and it allows you to easily play a song on a different device by choosing an active speaker/device, or connecting to a new one. The Spotify app allows you to seamlessly switch to another device, including via casting. When you’re playing music on an Echo device, the Amazon Alexa app will show you where the song is currently playing: Related Reading: Amazon Echo: Music Is Suddenly Distorted (Why?) Solution #2: Use The App It’s one of those features that you don’t realise you need until you have it.Īnywhoo, this works fine for me in the UK as an ordinary Amazon Prime subscriber, but what happens if this feature isn’t rolled out to your country yet (or it simply refuses to work for you)? I’ll cover six other solutions below. ![]() Since I’m often moving from one room to the next (usually chasing after one of my children!), being able to seamlessly move songs from one Echo to another has been a great added feature. But I gained this feature (as a standard Amazon Music/Prime subscriber) a month or so after some other users. The quick MP3 below shows how this works (I moved “Who you are” by Craig David from a far-away room, to the current room): “Alexa, transfer the music here”Īt first, only Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers seemed to have this feature. It takes a few seconds in total, and you shouldn’t lose any of the song – it usually picks up where it left off. It should then automatically move the music without issue. When a song is already playing on one Echo device, just go to a different Echo and say “Alexa, transfer music here”. Solution #1: “Alexa, transfer music here”Īmazon: thank you! Whilst Jeff Bezos was busy launching into space, some Amazon software developer was busy writing a long awaited feature: the ability to transfer a song from one Echo device to another. If it doesn’t work for you, though, I’ll then cover five other approaches that you can try out. However even if Amazon Music isn’t your default, Amazon’s “transfer music” feature might still work – so let’s dive into how to use it. The music and podcasts section of the Amazon Alexa app showing the music skills and default service ![]() This can be checked (or changed) by launching the Alexa app, clicking “More” in the bottom right, and then clicking “Music & Podcasts”: ![]() It works for most cases, but it’s best if you use Amazon Music as your default music service. ![]() Thankfully Amazon stepped up, and rolled out this feature in late 2021. Therefore it was frustrating that when I originally wrote this article (back in 2020), Amazon didn’t offer this feature – despite being the number one seller of smart speakers. This is a really nice feature because it’s common to be listening to music in one room, but you need to go into another room to check on something (such as checking on food in the kitchen) – being able to move your song here feels quite seamless and natural. This is made possible by Google Assistant, and any Assistant-compatible device (including Google Home and Android phones) can accept music stream transfer. Google Home’s stream transfer feature allows you to take a playing stream – such as a stream of music – and play it in another room’s device instead. 9) Summing Up Why ‘Stream Transfer’ Is Awesome ![]()
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