Do you like a song and want to share it with a friend? You can do this now with your Alexa device.
The company has introduced a Music Sharing feature for Alexa that allows 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 by saying, ‘Alexa, share this song with [friend]. However, you will have to switch on Alexa Communication, which will ask you to enter your contact list.
If you send a song to one of your contacts, Alexa will let them know both through the Alexa app as well as on their Echo device. They can then ask to hear their messages, and Alexa will respond by asking to play the track. (The notification will also appear as a push notification when you activate it.)
Amazon says that Alexa will play the song on a receiver’s standard music streaming service or on another service on their device. If it cannot find the same song you requested to send, Alexa will recommend a station to listen to, based on the artist’s name and the title of the song.
To see who your fellow Echo users are in your contacts, go to the Alexa app, navigate to the Communicate tab and select New message.
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While it is possible to share your contact list with Amazon, this music sharing feature is probably not for people who feel uncomfortable sharing more data with the company than they already do. There is also always YouTube. Of Spotify. Of SoundCloud. Or – you have the idea.