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July 7, 2020

Have Alexa Pre-Announce Each Song You Hear…

This C-Net article provides five “music hacks” to better leverage music when you use Alexa to listen to it. My favorite is this one:

When you’re listening to a new song you’ve never heard, it can be annoying to interrupt the song by asking Alexa what it’s called or who sings it. However, with a feature called Song ID, Alexa will announce the artist and name of the track before playing the song. To enable, say, “Alexa, turn on Song ID.”

The article also suggests a dozen fun music-related questions to ask Alexa, such as “Alexa, who is Jessie’s girl”…