

It takes a few seconds in total, and you shouldn’t lose any of the song – it usually picks up where it left off. It should then automatically move the music without issue. When a song is already playing on one Echo device, just go to a different Echo and say “Alexa, transfer music here”. Solution #1: “Alexa, transfer music here”Īmazon: thank you! Whilst Jeff Bezos was busy launching into space, some Amazon software developer was busy writing a long awaited feature: the ability to transfer a song from one Echo device to another. If it doesn’t work for you, though, I’ll then cover five other approaches that you can try out. However even if Amazon Music isn’t your default, Amazon’s “transfer music” feature might still work – so let’s dive into how to use it. The music and podcasts section of the Amazon Alexa app showing the music skills and default service This can be checked (or changed) by launching the Alexa app, clicking “More” in the bottom right, and then clicking “Music & Podcasts”: It works for most cases, but it’s best if you use Amazon Music as your default music service. Thankfully Amazon stepped up, and rolled out this feature in late 2021. Therefore it was frustrating that when I originally wrote this article (back in 2020), Amazon didn’t offer this feature – despite being the number one seller of smart speakers.

This is a really nice feature because it’s common to be listening to music in one room, but you need to go into another room to check on something (such as checking on food in the kitchen) – being able to move your song here feels quite seamless and natural. This is made possible by Google Assistant, and any Assistant-compatible device (including Google Home and Android phones) can accept music stream transfer.

Google Home’s stream transfer feature allows you to take a playing stream – such as a stream of music – and play it in another room’s device instead. 8) Summing Up What ‘Stream Transfer’ Is (And Why It’s Awesome)
