What Is Multi-Room Music?
Multi-room music is pretty popular. In a nutshell, it’s simply the ability to play the same audio source on speakers in different rooms, in perfect synchronization, so you can go from room to room and hear the music play seamlessly. All this can be controlled from a single app or controller, giving you the ultimate control over music in your home.
If you are thinking, “Gee, this sounds familiar” then we have two comments: 1) Nice pun! and 2) Yes, this multi-room functionality is not unlike the way Sonos works.
How to Set Up Alexa Multi-Room Music
How to Control Multi-Room Music with Alexa
After you set up one or more groups, it’s time to have fun playing music in more than one room at a time. You can command Alexa to play music by saying “Alexa, play music [group name].” In other words, you can say “Alexa, play music downstairs.”
Tap the plus sign at the top right corner and then, in the pop-up, tap Set Up Multi-Room Music. If you see an introductory welcome screen, tap Continue.
Start by creating your first group. Choose a group from the list. When you choose a group name, tap Next.
You can modify the name of your group by selecting Edit Name. Then, choose the speakers you want to include in your group. You can tap some or all of the speakers. When you’re done, tap Save.
After you save your first group, you can go back and create more groups.
Multi-room music works with all the usual Alexa commands as well. You can ask for specific artists, albums, specific songs, genres, and more. Here are some examples:
- “Alexa, play Moving Pictures by Rush downstairs.““Alexa, play The White Stripes upstairs.““Alexa, play blues everywhere.““Alexa, pause the music everywhere.”
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