Do you love a song and want to share it with a friend? You can now do it 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 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 must enable Alexa Communications, which will prompt you to import your contact list.
When you send a number to one of your contacts, Alexa will notify you via 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 if you have it enabled.)
Amazon says Alexa will play the song on a recipient’s default music streaming service or any other service on their device. If it can’t find the same song you asked for, Alexa will recommend a station to listen to based on the artist 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 the people who feel uncomfortable sharing more data with the company than they already do. There’s always, you know, YouTube too. Or Spotify. Or SoundCloud. Or – you get the idea.