I think with the music, if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you get a sampling of 2 million songs. Though there is variety in this sampling, after a while, the songs seem to repeat themselves in the different playlists. There is an unlimited music subscription program just for Echo owners called something like Amazon Music Unlimited, which costs $3.99 monthly. That is the cheapest monthly music streaming price I've ever heard of. It lets you create playlists and save songs offline, but since I already have a family subscription to Apple Music, there does not seem to be an incentive to getting the unlimited music on the Echo. Still, I can see how it could be used if you don't have Apple Music, or want to have access to unlimited music all of the time. There is a way to setup instant ordering with the Echo, but I've chosen not to do that, as a safe guard for accidentally ordering something that I didn't want. Or, to prevent Alexa from triggering on those magic words spoken from other media. I have the Echo Dot and it is extremely easy to use to set timers, play games, check the next game of your favorite sports team, and much more. What's fun to do is asking Alexa to play the top songs from a certain year.
Wayne On 8/6/17, terrie arnold <terrieiph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well I have the Amazon Alexa and then had it for about a month and it is > absolutely wonderful, you can search for a Recipes any kind of thing you > think you can want to cook you can even tell you how to cook a hotdog really > I am so serious. Also I will set timers various timers not just one. > It will tell you the weather, and you can call people and I repeat you can > call people that have an Amazon.are any Amazon echo they both work the same > so you can make clear phone calls through device as long as they're in your > database on your phone. So just a wonderful wonderful thing plus plays music > anything you can think of I mean literally anything you can think of from > listen to music from the 20s and 30s I have audible books it can read books > through your device if you have those downloaded and can't think of the > Amazon tablet right the top of my head but it'll read the books if you have > books on there it will read those books as well so a very smart little > device to having your home and you can also hook up with the devices to turn > your lights on to but there are more devices coming out that will work > through this last such as crockpots, coffee makers,, stats, Doraville's, > locks for your door to open your door so such a wonderful little device is > it is something I really didn't think I would use very much but I'm finding > out that I use it quite a bit and you can listen to various baseball Games > so there's so much on this device that I don't even know about and I'm > learning new things every day, oh and yes there are games, you can play > Jeopardy and word jams and the hangman your sis and List and List things > that are available on this thing to entertain yourself so they're 35 bucks > at Best Buy I think they are as much as 50 bucks for the echo.. > But if you were an Amazon prime member you can get the Amazon Alexa which > has the large speaker and it and you can spread the payments out into five > payments which makes it really more affordable so Amazon prime is a nice > thing to have so much my Amazon Alexa so I can say all the other fun to > store did the other fun thing they have is a skill that is called guard dog > and you can say guard dog and this big ferocious dog will start barking at > various random times so it sounds like you have a very large dog in your > area so thought it was kind of cool so cold you can download the Amazon > Alexa app onto your phone and use and use it to call your friends that have > echo dots or have the Amazon Alexa app on their phone as well so there are > several ways to use this > > My thoughts for today > >> On Aug 4, 2017, at 11:14 PM, Merv Keck <blind5spar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> All of the Amazon devices are accessible if you are referring to the Show, >> Dot, Tap, or Echo. >> There are currently over 15,000 skills available and more being added each >> day. >> Merv >> >> ----- >> >> For all things Echo: >> main+subscr...@echoing.groups.io >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: jedbar...@gmail.com [mailto:jedbar...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jed >> Barton >> Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 12:06 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: looking for input on any of the amazon devices >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I thought this might be a good place to post this. 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