Play or Stream Music and Audio with Amazon Alexa

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction: Amazon Alexa: How to Stream Music

Amazon Alexa can help with a variety of tasks, including playing music. Voice commands like, "Alexa, play songs by David Bowie," or "Alexa, play the song Under Pressure," will have you quickly streaming music from your library or a streaming service.

2. Amazon Alexa: Link a Music Service to Alexa

  • Go to the menu and select Settings.
Amazon Alexa app menu with settings highlighted

  • Select Music & Media, and then select the music service you want to add.
Amazon Alexa app menu with settings selected and music and media highlighted


  • Select Link account to Alexa. A sign-in page then appears in the app.
Amazon Alexa app settings showing music services


  • Sign in by entering your account information for the service.

3. Amazon Alexa: Choose Default Music Service

  1. Go to the menu and select Settings.
Amazon Alexa app menu with settings highlighted


  1. Scroll to the Accounts section and select Music & Media.
Amazon Alexa settings menu with music and media selected


  1. Select Choose default music services.
Amazon Alexa settings menu showing choose default music services highlighted

4. Amazon Alexa: Music Voice Commands

In order to ask Alexa to play music there are several commands you can use. Alexa will play music from your default music service.

  • Play a song: "Play some music.'" or "Play the song, '[title].'"
  • Play an album: "Play the album, '[title].'"
  • Play music by an artist: "Play songs by [artist]."
  • Play songs by genre: "Play some [genre] music." or "Play some [genre name] music from Spotify."
  • Play a playlist: "Listen to my [title] playlist." or "Shuffle my [title] playlist."
  • Adjust the volume: "Volume up / down." or "Set volume to level [number]."
  • Hear details about the song currently playing: "What is this?" or "Who is this?" or "What song is this?" or "Who is this artist?" or "When did this song/album come out?"
  • Stop the song currently playing: "Stop." or "Pause."
  • Play or resume paused songs or tracks: "Play." or "Resume."
  • Set or cancel a sleep timer: "Set a sleep timer for [x] minutes / hours." or “Stop playing music in [x] minutes/hours.” or "Cancel sleep timer."
  • Go to the next or previous song: "Next." or "Previous."
  • Loop the music queue: "Loop."
  • Shuffle songs: "Shuffle." or "Stop shuffle."
  • Repeat songs: "Repeat this song."

5. Go To: Install the Amazon Alexa App

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