Amazon is bringing Apple Music integration to Alexa customers in time for the holidays

The online retail giant Amazon on Fri announced that Apple’s music-streaming service volition endure supported yesteryear its voice-activated Echo speaker range start out the calendar week of Dec 17.

“We’re excited to pick out Apple Music to our Alexa customers this vacation season,” said Amazon.

You volition endure able to enquire Alexa to play whatsoever melody from Apple Music’s 50 ane G 1000 vocal catalog, correct on your Echo wireless speaker. In add-on to playing your favorite songs, artists too albums, you lot volition endure able to enquire the Amazon assistant to play whatsoever of the playlists curated yesteryear Apple Music’s editors too current genre-based radio stations that are available on Apple’s music service.

“Just enquire Alexa to play Beats 1 to hear Apple Music’s global livestream including in-depth creative soul interviews— all completely ad-free,” notes the company. To start out listening, you lot volition postulate to link your concern human relationship yesteryear enabling the Apple Music science inwards the Alexa app.

Dave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon Devices, was quoted equally saying:

Music is ane of the most pop features on Alexa—since nosotros launched Alexa 4 years ago, customers are listening to to a greater extent than music inwards their homes than e'er before.

We are committed to offering corking music providers to our customers too since launching the Music Skill API to developers simply end month, we’ve expanded the music choice on Alexa to include fifty-fifty to a greater extent than overstep tier services. We’re thrilled to pick out Apple Music—one of the most pop music services inwards the US—to Echo customers this holiday.

While Amazon too Apple used to endure at odds, their somewhat contentious human relationship seems to get got taken a plough for the improve inwards the yesteryear twelvemonth or so. Not exclusively is Amazon selling Apple’s streaming box but has sealed a bargain amongst Apple to sell an expanded arrive at of products, including iPhones too iPads, on its massively pop e-commerce platform.

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