Hey YouTube, I'm Tristan from Smart Home Point.
One of the things you can do on your Echo devices and in the Alexa
app is loop music. This can be used for a number of purposes.
For example you can loop a particular song if you... if it's a favorite song, and
you can listen to it on repeat... which will probably drive everyone else
around a bit nutty, but it could be good to do!
Equally if you have a party, you might not want to play a random Spotify
playlist just in case weird songs come up.
So what you can do is put a playlist together of your 10 or 15 -
or 100 - favorite songs, and play that playlist on repeat,
and that's a good way of controlling the music you've got. Finally you can
actually loop music as part of a routine, and this is
good because if you have a bedtime routine,
you can actually build this looping of music into the routine so you can then
play that music on repeat all through the
night, and this is particularly good for sleep music or sleep sounds.
And it's also good considering a lot of the third party skills
on the Echo platform that play sleep sounds have recently started charging
per month for their "premium sounds", which is a bit rubbish, so
I wanted to film this video and just walk through how you can do these three
things: loop songs, looping of playlists and
looping music as part of a routine. Let's take a look. Okay so if you've got
a particular favorite song you want to keep playing
over and over then it's really easy: you just request the song,
and then afterwards you say 'loop mode' on. So for example you say play Baby Shark.
"Playing Baby Shark from your library on Amazon Music".
And then you simply say loop mode on. "Loop mode". Let's mute that down now,
uhm, because this is a copyrighted song so I don't actually wanna play this on this
YouTube channel. But um, this song's playing now and it'll just
keep playing over and over, Uhm, and at any point you want to stop
this you can either just literally say the command word and
then stop, or if you want to keep listening to the song
you can literally turn loop mode off by saying:
"loop mode off". "Loop mode off". to stop.
Okay, so that's really easy and as I say - if you've got a particular favorite song,
this is really easy to do, and it works really well.
Okay next up is looping a playlist. Now this works really well, especially if
you're having a party or anything else and you just want some mood, um,
music in the background. You can arrange your playlist in the
Amazon Music app, which is shown on the screen now. It's...
this is fairly easy to do, and then once you have your playlist, you
can ask your Echo device to play that playlist. At that point, you can then
ask to loop that playlist in the same way as you
loop a song, and it's really easy to do. Let's have a look. Play my relaxation
playlist. "Your playlist relaxation on Amazon Music".
[Me] "loop mode on", [Alexa] "loop mode on". Okay and it'll literally now keep
repeating over and over - obviously other than the fact that I've
muted it! But um I'll keep playing over and over on loop
for this particular playlist, and it'll work fine if you've got a single
song in your playlist, or 100 songs - it'll just keep playing over
and over. So this method is really easy to do, and it works really
well as well.
Right, one of the things I really like with the Amazon
app - smart home app - is just how easy it is to actually create
automation routines, and as part of this you can obviously play songs and you can
play playlists. Now there is a flaw with this because
you can't actually loop directly on the playlist,
which I'll show you now, but there is thankfully a bit of a workaround.
Uhm, so to create a routine you're gonna go to more,
and then go to routines here. What I'll do is... is just create a new one
up in the corner here. I'll call it 'relax', then I'll create just
a simple bedtime routine. So when this happens...
when someone says the phrase relax...
then we want things to happen, and obviously you've got quite of choice of
stuff that can happen, um, which is quite handy.
What I'll do here firstly is go to smart home,
lights and say bedroom... color want to make sure it's - sort of - a
warm white, which is good for nighttime. Click on next, and then we want to
actually play a song as part of this routine.
So we click on add new, go down to music, and here...
you can actually type in what you want to play. So for example
I could say baby shark. Uhm, and over here
I can select a provider: so I say Amazon Music.
And that works really well, however there's a bit of a flaw because if I
said 'on loop'... next... it says it can't find
any results. Uhm, and the same is true as well of a
playlist. So if I, uhm, select a playlist such as my
relaxation playlist my relaxation -
playlist, and click on next, that will work actually. I'll just make
sure it says for my library... shouldn't make any
difference... but there we are, so that works fine.
So that would work, but then the moment I say 'on loop'
it doesn't work. Or 'on repeat', it also doesn't work.
And trust me, I've played around with this a lot, so I won't go into every sort
of combination. Uhm, but just trust me when I say it
doesn't work unfortunately. I've even tried
doing things like this... so adding a new one and then saying
"loop mode on" on my library. I've even tried that, and
it seems like it'll actually work because it's actually saved it, doesn't
give me an error, but then... from the device you speak to...
so click save up there, so I've even done that.
But then when I actually go and play this particular routine -
you know - so when I actually go to an Echo device and I say
"relax", when it says that it'll play
whatever playlist I've asked it to play,
but then at the end of that it seems to get confused when you say something like
this, and it'll just say something like...
"playing your music in shuffle mode", which isn't very useful!
Uhm, so it is a bit of a flaw: so it means that
at the moment you can't actually loop songs or loop playlists as part of a
routine. But you can do if I just delete that and
go back out. What you can do is go to your Echo
device, say the word - the trigger point of your
command - of your routine, and then say 'loop mode
on', and that will then work, as I'll show you
now. So let's take a look at that.
[Me] "Relax".
Okay so that's playing, and now that that's playing, whether it's a playlist
or a song, has been kicked off by the routine,
but now because it's playing I can literally just ask for loop mode to be
turned on. [me] "loop mode on". [Alexa] "loop mode on".
So as you can see loop mode is on, and whether it's a playlist or a song that
you kicked off by a routine, they'll now keep playing over and
over on repeat, which is great especially at night for - sort of - white
noise and sleep relaxation noise and music. Uhm, whilst it's a bit of a pain
you can't turn loop mode on as part of the routine, this is a fairly -
you know - easy way of doing it anyway because you
issue the command for your playlist... for your routine, sorry...
you'll do all the things in that particular routine, and then you
literally have to just say the command word and "loop mode on"
and then you've got that song - or the set of songs - repeating all throughout the
night. So it works out fairly well in my opinion. Okay, thanks for watching
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