id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> Your Amazon Echo can create playlists for you.

Sarah Tew/CNET Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about your Amazon Echo — all the funny things to ask Alexa, how to turn on your TV with just your voice and how to control your smart home devices — here comes another batch. Your Alexa voice assistant has several more tricks up its sleeve that you might not know about yet.

For example, did you know you can hold something up to your Amazon Echo Show ( $230 at Amazon ) and Alexa can tell you what it is? Or 우리카지노 that you can tell your Echo speaker to create a playlist for you without ever picking up your phone?

It may take a while to learn all the things your Amazon Echo and its voice assistant can do, but for now, here are eight Echo tricks we’ve compiled that you start trying out right now.

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Creating a new playlist can take time — you have to think of the songs you want to add, search for the titles and manually add them to the playlist you just created. So instead of trying to quickly tap as many songs as possible, just ask your Echo to add them for you. 

While you’re busy doing other things, like household chores or playing video games, 우리카지노총판 just say, “Alexa, create a new playlist.” You’ll need to come up with a name for the playlist, like “Favorite Rock Songs of the ’90s.” If you want to add a song to the playlist, it’ll need to be playing on your smart speaker. So if you want to add Weezer’s Say It Ain’t So to your playlist, 우리카지노계열 you’ll need to request Alexa to play it first and then say, “Alexa, add this song to my playlist.”

Once your playlist is complete and you’re ready to listen to it, just say, “Alexa, play [name of playlist].”