I’ve also tried creating loads of little playlists with 1 or 2 songs, but Amazon then just fills them up with irrelevant songs when you try playing that playlist. You CAN try buying individual MP3s to play on your Echo, and a helpful Reddit thread shows how you can SORT OF play those songs… but this feature is quite hit and miss. Google broke their free music features a couple of years ago, as part of their YouTube Premium roll-out. So what alternatives do you have, without paying for a music subscription? Well, not many. Taking away a bunch of features is an intentional strategy from Amazon, in my opinion. If that wasn’t the case, they wouldn’t have spent months developing this new feature – all centering around “shuffle mode”. Amazon clearly wants to push you to pay for a Music Unlimited subscription. Now, it’s possible that some of these ARE actually bugs that Amazon will iron out, but I doubt things will improve much. But Amazon now refuses to play that song, instead playing some ‘deep sleep’ playlists “in shuffle mode”. For example, we have a bedtime routine that plays a specific song – one that I purchased the MP3 for, in-fact. They actually Rick rolled me! This “upgrade” has also broken loads of my own Alexa routines. Shuffling Billy Ocean and similar artists, on Amazon Music other artists But now, it plays random artists – as part of the shuffle mode. Previously this would have played a handful of songs without issue. Yesterday my wife asked our Echo Show to play Billy Ocean songs.

And if you’re REALLY lucky, that playlist MIGHT include the song you actually asked for. “Shuffle mode” means that Prime Music is now Spotify Free: when you ask for a song, it will play a “similar playlist” instead. If that was part of the 2 million songs included with Prime Music, it would play it. Previously, without an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, you could ask your Echo to play a certain song or artist. It all boils down to three magical words: “in shuffle mode”. Amazon just announced a major “upgrade” to Amazon Music: instead of having access to 2 million songs as part of Prime Music, you now get OVER 100 MILLION songs.

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