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Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:07:31 GMT

I just ordered an Amazon Echo and would like to connect my Sirius XM to it. For those of you who have both, do you listen to music through Sirius XM or just ask Alexa to play a certain kind of music for you? It may be just as easy to ask her to play music.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

sunshine45 — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:15:11 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
I just ordered an Amazon Echo and would like to connect my Sirius XM to it. For those of you who have both, do you listen to music through Sirius XM or just ask Alexa to play a certain kind of music for you? It may be just as easy to ask her to play music.

@NickNack

i listen to my sirius/xm though my echo and dot devices. i just prefer that generally.

if you want to ask alexa to play say "70s disco music" then it can play that through your amazon account and you can tell it to "skip" or "play next song" if you dont like the particular song it is playing.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:20:57 GMT

@sunshine45 That's great that you can ask it to skip a song. I hope it comes with detailed instructions and you don't just have to discover everything it can do on your own.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:23:40 GMT

@sunshine45 p.s. You can ask Alexa to play music even if you don't subscribe to Amazon music, can't you? I have Prime but don't subscribe to Music.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

sunshine45 — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:29:09 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
@sunshine45 p.s. You can ask Alexa to play music even if you don't subscribe to Amazon music, can't you? I have Prime but don't subscribe to Music.

@NickNack

i dont subscribe to amazon music, but amazon prime has free content as part of their service. 2 million+ songs that are ad free.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:30:36 GMT

Thanks @sunshine45 . I'm anxious to get it. It won't be in stock until next Friday though.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

lovescats — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:35:09 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
I just ordered an Amazon Echo and would like to connect my Sirius XM to it. For those of you who have both, do you listen to music through Sirius XM or just ask Alexa to play a certain kind of music for you? It may be just as easy to ask her to play music.

I don't have sirius radio on my echo but when you get your echo set up go to skills and the reviews for the sirius app have a lot of 5 stars

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Mary Bailey — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:39:20 GMT

You don't have to subscribe to Amazon music to listen to music.

There are some songs you can only hear if you subscribe. (Like "I'll Follow the Sun" and (Slow Dancing) Swaying To The Music)

I subscribe only on my Show. I hear everything on it & see lyrics on a lot of the songs.

I say Alexa.... "...play music" "...70s" "70s Motown" "Amazon Christmas (or holiday) music" "Amy Winehouse"

Say Alexa "Thumbs UP" and it makes it a Favorite then you can say "Play My Favorites"

or Thumbs Down when you really don't like something

or Skip

sometimes when I say play music it will say "Here's a station you may like .....70s soul (or something else)

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:43:31 GMT

Thank you @Mary Bailey and @lovescats. Those are very helpful tips.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Mary Bailey — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:54:43 GMT

Every day I say Alexa Good Morning and get some little fact of the day or sometimes something silly.

I ask for the weather in my town, the time a store or restaurant opens, set timers, set reminders. It doesn't always know times or stores in my area.

Mine isn't linked to my phone, but my Mom and sister are linked to their phones and they can call each other on it. (I bought the Show to video call my son when they all move to Dallas)

DH likes to say inappropriate stuff to Alexa to see what it says. LOL

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Porcelain — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 20:09:01 GMT

There's also a discussion of the Echo going on over in the Home section with some interesting contributions. https://community.qvc.com/t5/Home/Any-Echo-Dot-fans/td-p/5897357/jump-to/first-unread-message

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Sheila P-Burg — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 20:42:52 GMT

@NickNack .... I subscribe to Amazon music only because the songs I was interested in hearing Alexa could not play without the subscription. My number one enjoyment is having my books read to me when I just feel like closing my eyes and leaning back in the recliner.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

pigletsmom — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:14:52 GMT

Here are the instructions for playing Xm on alexa. It's very easy. And if you want to listen to a specific channel just say Alexa play Sirius Xm 70s on 7 or whatever channel and you're all set.

To start listening with Amazon Alexa:

From within the Amazon Alexa app, select Skills from the menu.
Search for and enable the SiriusXM Skill from the Music & Audio category.
Select Link Account and enter your SiriusXM streaming username and password

I sort of hated paying for Xm and being stuck with it only in the car. Having the app helped a little but still a pain to have to drag my tablet around. Alexa has made the subscription to Xm worth it.

You can also listen to regular radio and from anywhere which is cool.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Marp — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:05:48 GMT

If you have multiple Echoes and/ior dots you can create a whole-house audio system to play your music or read your audio books.

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NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:17:55 GMT

@Marp wrote:
If you have multiple Echoes and/ior dots you can create a whole-house audio system to play your music or read your audio books.

@Marp and anyone else that listens to audio books, do you have to subscribe to the Audible app to listen to audio books? I Googled it, and it doesn't sound like you have to subscribe but wasn't sure. Can you read the book yourself on your Kindle and then have Alexa pick it up where you left off and read it to you? I wouldn't necessarily want to have the entire book read to me.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

Marp — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:22:56 GMT

@NickNack, I can't answer your questions as I do not use audio books. I tried at one time and found myself being lulled to sleep as the book read on lol.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:24:24 GMT

@Marp wrote:
@NickNack, I can't answer your questions as I do not use audio books. I tried at one time and found myself being lulled to sleep as the book read on lol.

@Marp I'd like to try it but am kind of afraid my mind would start drifting and I wouldn't pay attention.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

lovescats — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:48:53 GMT

I can play my audible books on echo. I can't listen to the library app Libby to play audio library books. and I have a few audio books and can't play them either on echo.

Echo will read aloud your kindle books and library kindle books with pretty good text to speech.

Re: Ordered Amazon Echo

NickNack — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:01:04 GMT

@lovescats wrote:
I can play my audible books on echo. I can't listen to the library app Libby to play audio library books. and I have a few audio books and can't play them either on echo.
Echo will read aloud your kindle books and library kindle books with pretty good text to speech.

Thank you @lovescats . Will Echo pick up where you left off in the book and then let you go back to reading it yourself? Does Echo have to read the entire book to you?

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lovescats — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:15:51 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
@lovescats wrote:
I can play my audible books on echo. I can't listen to the library app Libby to play audio library books. and I have a few audio books and can't play them either on echo.
Echo will read aloud your kindle books and library kindle books with pretty good text to speech.

Thank you @lovescats . Will Echo pick up where you left off in the book and then let you go back to reading it yourself? Does Echo have to read the entire book to you?

yes it will give you the option to read it where you left off with echo or where you left off reading on kindle and when you read on kindle it pops up with something like you stopped reading here but do you want to go to location such and such / where echo stopped reading it is simpler than it sounds plus you can put a sleep timer on echo to have it stop reading