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Apple Music Comes to the Amazon Echo

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  1. Melody Bot Dec 17, 2018
    Melody Bot

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    Apple Music is now available on the Amazon Echo:


    To set up Apple Music on the Echo, open the Alexa iOS app and go to the Music section of the app’s Settings. You won’t see Apple Music listed as an existing service, so tap the ‘Link New Service’ button, which will list Apple Music along with several other services.

    Once you’ve logged in with your Apple Music credentials, the Apple Music Skill is enabled, which allows you to say things like ‘Alexa, play my New Music Mix on Apple Music.’ You can separately set Apple Music as your default music service, which lets you use Alexa to request music without specifying ‘on Apple Music.’
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    I’ve been playing with it all weekend and it works great. It doesn’t (currently) have access to your entire iCloud Music Library, so things in your personal collection aren’t available, but the millions of songs on Apple Music are all available, as are your custom playlists.

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  2. Tim McCall Dec 17, 2018
    Tim McCall

    Regular

    If this works with iTunes Match, it will be a game changer for me.
     
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  3. atlastitsok Dec 17, 2018
    atlastitsok

    Regular

    Really hoping google home support follows.
     
  4. Bayside 182 Dec 18, 2018
    Bayside 182

    Wolverine Supporter

    This is huge. Just played a playlist I made in 2005 on my echo
     
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  6. Bayside 182 Dec 20, 2018
    Bayside 182

    Wolverine Supporter

    Question for anyone using this:

    So I never used Apple Music before they introduced this new feature. I have used iTunes for years and created a lot of playlists. When I listen to one of these self created playlists on an Apple device and use the shuffle feature, it does a true shuffle but when I play one of these playlists on my echo with Apple Music, the shuffle feature doesn't really work. It plays only songs near the top of the playlist and doesn't do much of a shuffle at all. Had anyone else noticed this?