Whether you have a PC or Mac, you can get to Alexa. Windows 10 has an app specifically for Alexa, but other computers have to access Alexa through Alexa-enabled speakers like the Echo or through the web browser at This wikiHow teaches you how to connect Alexa to a computer. In the Amazon Alexa app on iOS, users need to first add a skill called Apple Podcasts. From then on, it will work and respond to requests to play shows such as the weekly AppleInsider podcast. Use the Amazon Alexa App to set up your Alexa-enabled devices, listen to music, create shopping lists, get news updates, and much more. The more you use Alexa, the more she adapts to your voice, vocabulary, and personal preferences. DISCOVER MORE. Get more out of your Echo device through personalized feature recommendations from Alexa. Discover and enable recommended Alexa skills.
Alexa App For Mac Computer
Amazon Music is an app that allows users to shop, play, manage, and download music. The new app provides Mac users with a seamless way to manage their entire music library - whether saved on their computer or in the cloud - and shop from the Amazon MP3 Store with a catalog of more than 25 million songs.
Features:
- One-place for all your music: Play your Amazon and iTunes music all from one place, even when offline.
- A music library that is always up-to-date: Cloud Player automatically detects and adds new music to your library even if you bought it from iTunes or ripped a CD. The app does all the work for you.
- An integrated MP3 Store: You can shop from the Amazon MP3 catalog of more than 25 million songs and discover new music with personalized recommendations, all without having to leave the app.
- AutoRip: Buy an AutoRip CD or vinyl record from Amazon and a free MP3 version of the album will be added to your Cloud Player for Mac library.
- Built for speed: Forget bloated players with extra features you don't need or use. Cloud Player for Mac is lean, mean and made for your music. It'll get you from launch to play in seconds.
- Music management made simple: Download your MP3 purchases automatically or with one click. Export your music to other music players. Create and manage playlists using simple drag-and-drop.
- Instant search & play: Find music easily and quickly. Type anywhere to search for an artist, album or song and play directly from the search results.
- Rich artist content: See artist photos, bios, tweets, and gorgeous, large album art.
- Anywhere access: Music purchased using Amazon Cloud Player for Mac is securely backed up in the cloud for free and made instantly available on any Kindle Fire, Android phone or tablet, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Samsung TV, Roku, Sonos, PC or web browser.
The whole of Apple's Podcasts library is now available on Amazon Echo devices and can be played by asking Alexa for particular shows or episodes.
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In a similar move to how Apple Musicbecame available on Amazon Echo earlier this year, now Podcasts have come too.
Once set up, users can simply ask Alexa to play a podcast, and then also have more specific controls such as pausing, or skipping back and forth through episodes.
It works with Amazon Echo or Amazon Fire TV, and requires the latest versions of both iOS and the Alexa app. Currently it also only works within the US.
In the Amazon Alexa app on iOS, users need to first add a skill called Apple Podcasts.
From then on, it will work and respond to requests to play shows such as the weekly AppleInsider podcast. However, each request has to include the words 'on Apple Podcasts'.
Alexa App For Mac Product
In a similar move to how Apple Musicbecame available on Amazon Echo earlier this year, now Podcasts have come too.
Once set up, users can simply ask Alexa to play a podcast, and then also have more specific controls such as pausing, or skipping back and forth through episodes.
It works with Amazon Echo or Amazon Fire TV, and requires the latest versions of both iOS and the Alexa app. Currently it also only works within the US.
In the Amazon Alexa app on iOS, users need to first add a skill called Apple Podcasts.
From then on, it will work and respond to requests to play shows such as the weekly AppleInsider podcast. However, each request has to include the words 'on Apple Podcasts'.
To change that, users need to make Apple Podcasts be the default player. In the iOS Amazon Alexa app, a New Service has to be added under the Music & Podcasts, Services section.
When signed in with a US Apple ID, there is the option to Select Default Service and set it to Apple Podcasts.
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