[Electronics-Talk] Sirius XM and spotify on amazon echo

[Jim Barbour]

If you get the XM Sirius streaming service, you can use it from the echo. You have to set it up in the Alexa app, but you can then tell Alexa to play Stations. The tricky part is that you have to know what the names of the Stations are. You can also use the iOS app to Play stations and discover their names, but it is clunky and parts of it are not accessible.

You can certainly use Spotify on the echo, which is a more traditional service where you ask for particular songs, albums, or genres to be played on your echo from Spotify.

Hope that helps, 

Jim

Written while on the move,, 

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 9:46 PM, Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Do these streaming music services work on Amazon echo? I've got an Echo.
> Also, do they  have to be connected to your Alexa app? I know you have to set the services up in the app and link them. But, after that, do you need the Alexa app or can you just  use the echo?
> I was hoping you can just use the Echo because  I would not want to have to have an Ipad or some tablet or phone running just to listen to the music.
> 
> Oh, and I've not used spotify. How much is this? Can you  pick stations from it? Can you search for and select certain songs? I used Pandora on the pc and found you can pick a certain song, but after that it moves onto similar songs.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ashley
> 
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
> 
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