Amazon Prime Music brings Alexa hands-free functionality to mobile devices

Starting today, Prime Music is bringing Alexa wake word capability to the Amazon Music mobile app, providing customers with a full integration of voice capabilities. Now, when customers open the Amazon Music app, they can ask Alexa to play music wherever they go without touching to talk – a completely hands-free listening experience!

When the Amazon Music app is open and in the foreground on any iOS and Android smartphones, customers can safely utilize all of the innovative voice features they use on Echo devices to play music by mood, genre, artist or song title and much more, no searching or browsing required. Customers can now simply say “Alexa”, to play, pause, move back and forth between songs, and much more.

• On your way to work, or running errands in the car? Simply ask, “Alexa, play the latest song by P!nk” without browsing the app to find that new track you recently heard on the radio.
• In the middle of a run? Just ask, “Alexa, play the ‘Dance Hits’ playlist” for a cardio soundtrack.
• Heading into hour three of that road trip? Ask, “Alexa play the ‘Indie Rock Road Trip’ playlist” and she’ll serve up a brand new Amazon Music playlist featuring Arcade Fire, The Killers and Portugal, The Man.
• Looking for the perfect pop song while cooking? Ask, “Alexa, play ‘There’s Nothing Holding Me Back’ by Shawn Mendes.”
• Busy with weights at the gym and want to get pumped up? Ask, “Alexa, play the ‘Hip-Hop for lifting’ playlist.”

Alexa in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android with tap-to-talk functionality first launched in the US, UK and DE in September 2017, with an expansion to Canada last month. Since then, providing hands-free listening in the app has been one of the top requests by Amazon Music customers. And today, Amazon Music is making mobile music streaming even better by enabling this new functionality for customers in the US and CA.

To get started with hands-free music listening with Alexa in the Amazon Music mobile app, Prime Music listeners in Canada can update the app for iOS or Android today or download from the Apple or Google Play app stores. Customers can always turn the feature on or off through the Amazon Music app’s settings.