Do you like a song and want to share it with a friend? You can now do this with your Alexa device.
The company has introduced a Music Sharing feature for Alexa that will allow the wizard 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, it will need to be enabled Alexa Communications, which will ask you to import your contact list.
When you send a song to one of your contacts, Alexa will let them know both through the Alexa app and on your Echo device. They can then ask you to listen to their messages and Alexa will respond by asking you to play the track. (The notification will also appear as a push notification if you have them enabled.)
Amazon says Alexa will play the song on a recipient’s default music streaming service or on another service on their device. If you can’t find the same song you asked for, Alexa will recommend a station to listen to based on the artist’s name and song title.
If you want to check which of your contacts are other Echo users, go to Alexa application, go to Communicate 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 don’t feel like sharing more data with their company than they already do. There’s always YouTube, you know. About Spotify. The SoundCloud. Or, you get the idea.