Love a song and want to share it with a friend? You can do this with your Alexa device now.
The company introduced a music sharing function for Alexa, which will allow the assistant to send a song or artist to a connection that also has an Alexa-enabled device. While listening to a song, you can ask Alexa to forward it to someone you know, saying, “Alexa, share this song with [friend]. ”However, you will need to enable Alexa Communications, which will ask you to import your contact list.
When you send a song to one of your contacts, Alexa will notify you both through the Alexa app and the Echo device. They can then ask to hear your messages, and Alexa will respond by asking to play the track. (The notification will also appear as a push notification if you have enabled them.)
Amazon says Alexa will play the song on the recipient’s standard music streaming service or another service on their device. If you can’t find the same song you asked to upload, Alexa will recommend a station to listen to based on the artist’s name and song title.
If you want to check who in your contacts are other Echo users, go to the Alexa app, navigate to the To communicate tab and select New message.
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While sharing your contact list with Amazon is optional, this music sharing feature is probably not for people who are uncomfortable sharing more data with the company than they already are. There’s always, you know, YouTube, too. Or Spotify. Or SoundCloud. Or – you get it.