How to Set Up Multi-room Music Streaming for the Echo and Echo Dot

Amazon just added multi-room music playback to the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show, making the voice-controlled assistants into more versatile home entertainment devices. Streaming music in your living room and bedroom, for example, at the same time takes a little setup. Read on to learn how.

Amazon Echo devices can now stream music in multiple rooms

Here’s how to make a multi-room streaming music group for the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show:

• Launch the Amazon Alexa app on your iPhone or iPad


• Choose Smart Home from the option menu

Tap the hamburger icon in the upper left corner to see the Smart Home menu option

• Select Groups

The Groups option lets you link Echo devices together for streaming music

• Tap Create Groups


• Choose Multi-Room Music

The Multi-Room Music option lets you link multiple Echo devices for music streaming

• Name your group and select the Echo devices you want to include

Give your group a descriptive name and select the Echo devices you want to include

• Tap Create Group

Tap Create Group to finish your multi-room music setup

I named my group “Everywhere” and included both of my Echo Dots. Now when I say, “Alexa, play jazz everywhere,” I get jazz music streaming in my living room and bedroom. When I say, “Alexa, stop,” in either room the music shuts off in both.

I’m glad to see this feature finally come to the Echo family because the lack of multi-room music streaming seemed like such an obvious thing to include. The timing is excellent, too, because Amazon added the new streaming music feature ahead of Apple’s HomePod launch this fall. Now Amazon streaming music is much more compelling to me, which I’m sure is exactly what they were going for.

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