How To Set Up Alexa To Play On All Devices

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon's Echo devices back up multi-room audio, but yous need to use the Alexa app to grouping them up.

This feature lets you play music across multiple Echo devices in your home at the same time. Simply there are caveats: the characteristic is merely available in a few countries, and information technology simply supports music, specifically, as well as certain devices and services.

Here'southward what you need to know and how to gear up it upward.

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How does multi-room piece of work on Amazon Echo devices?

Multi-room music/audio is 1 of those buzzphrases that's been boot most for years. It's a phrase that ultimately refers to what you might expect: audio in multiple rooms. Put simply, it's the power to listen to music in several rooms. Depending on the system, y'all'll be able to play different music in different rooms at the same time, or the same music in all rooms, or just a couple simultaneously.

In Amazon's version of multi-room audio, you tin can create groups with two or more Echo devices. Y'all tin name that grouping - for case, "upstairs" - and and so once y'all've created the group, you can simply say, "Alexa, play John Lennon upstairs."

Alexa volition non only play tunes from Amazon Music just too other streaming services, depending on your location.

In add-on, some versions of the Echo will support stereo pairing, although this but works with similar devices - and so two Repeat Dots or two Echos - and it'southward limited to the more than contempo devices. Fortunately, the 3rd-gen Echo will stereo pair with the second-gen Repeat Plus, giving a little more flexibility.

How do you group Alexa devices for multi-room music?

You tin register two or more Alexa-enabled devices to i Amazon business relationship. Once you do that, you must put them all on the same Wi-Fi network, and then you can get them fix for multi-room music using the Alexa app, which includes creating a grouping for them.

When ready, update and open the Amazon Alexa app on your mobile device, and then follow these steps:

Select Devices from the bottom bar
Tap the + in the top correct corner
Tap on "Combine speakers" from the carte du jour
For multi-room music, choice the pinnacle option - but home movie house and stereo pairing are likewise options
On the next page select the Echo devices to include in the group, tap Next
Choose a proper name for your group, tap Save
Once washed, say: "Play [vocal or creative person] on [Echo devices' group name]"

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Which Echo devices support the feature?

Echo
Echo (2nd gen)
Echo (3rd gen)
Repeat (4th gen)
Echo Dot
Repeat Dot (2nd gen)
Echo Dot (3rd gen)
Echo Dot (fourth gen)
Echo Dot with Clock
Repeat Testify
Echo Bear witness (2nd gen)
Echo Testify x
Echo Show 5
Echo Show 5 (second gen)
Echo Show 8
Echo Show 8 (2nd gen)
Repeat Plus
Echo Plus (second gen)
Echo Spot
Burn down Tv set Stick
Repeat Input

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Which music services support the feature?

You tin can employ Alexa to control multi-room music from Amazon Music, Prime Music, Apple tree Music, Spotify, Pandora, Sirius XM, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio. Keep in mind the characteristic does not support any Bluetooth connections while streaming, such as to external speakers, unless information technology's a wired connexion to an external speaker (like from the Repeat Dot). You lot besides tin can't fast-forward or rewind for music playback.

Alexa multi-room commands

Here are some examples of things you tin say:

"Alexa, Play [music] on [group name]."
"Alexa, cease playing music on [group name]".
"Alexa, play popular music on Amazon Music downstairs."

This all sounds slap-up, but Alexa has to translate that yous want to play on the group and can sometimes take the group name every bit function of the song or service you are choosing. Generally speaking, information technology's easy to get your default music service to play songs on a group, just yous also get full control from the Alexa app.

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This means y'all tin go to the playing section of the app, select the content you want and then where you want it to play - you'll not merely have your Echo devices listed, but also your group.

If you lot're a Spotify user, groups also roll into Spotify Connect, and then you can choose music from the Spotify app direct, and then pick the group of speakers you want it to play on.

Does it work with not-music content?

No. Amazon's multi-room music feature does not work with non-music content, skills or other things, but it will piece of work (subsequently a mode) with Aural books. We've just managed to get this to work from the Alexa app, but this could be something you lot practise to have a book read to kids at bedtime in separate rooms.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall.