How to listen to music on Amazon Echo from YouTube?

Speakers are always very useful to amplify the audio of our mobile devices. One of the best speakers out there is the Amazon Echo. These have incredible audio power, are compatible with all kinds of devices and are capable of playing music independently.

With these devices it is possible to listen to music from YouTube using the services of the Alexa assistant. Later, we will show you what methods you can use to listen to music on YouTube with your Amazon Echo and what commands Alexa supports for YouTube.

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1. What methods are there to listen to YouTube music on an Amazon Echo?
   1. Connecting a phone by bluetooth
   2. Creating an ‘Alexa-YouTube’ Skill for Amazon Echo
2. What commands are supported by the ‘Alexa-YouTube’ skill?
3. Music services that are natively supported on Amazon Echo

What methods are there to listen to YouTube music on an Amazon Echo?

The Amazon Echo are so to speak ‘Next-generation speakers’. We say this because they have features that no other speaker has today. Some of these are the functionality of the Alexa assistant and the option for extra volume when playing audio.

Features like these are what make such devices different from the rest and encourage people to buy it. Another thing that can be done with the help of Alexa and an Amazon Echo is to control your TV quickly and without complications .

Now, getting back to the basics, let’s continue talking about the methods offered by the Amazon Echo to listen to music from YouTube . The two methods that can be used for this are connecting via bluetooth and adding an Alexa Skill to YouTube.

The next two subtopics below will show you how to connect your Amazon Echo device via Bluetooth and via an Alexa Skill. In this way, you can switch to listening to music on YouTube using the speaker.

Connecting a phone by bluetooth

The first of the recommended methods to use to listen to music from YouTube with your Amazon Echo is to connect a speaker with your cell phone. This is done as follows:

1. Start your phone.
2. Enable Bluetooth connection.
3. Start your Amazon Echo.
4. Then open the ‘Alexa’ app on your phone.
5. To finish, access the ‘Devices’ section and link the selected mobile ‘Echo and Alexa’.

That’s all there is to Bluetooth pairing an Amazon Echo device with a mobile phone. To unlink both devices, all you have to do is disable the mobile’s Bluetooth and turn off the Amazon Echo.

On the other hand, once the Amazon Echo device is linked via Bluetooth to the cell phone, all you need to do is open YouTube and play music. In this way, you would be able to start listening to music from YouTube with your Amazon Echo speaker.

In case you didn’t know, with Amazon Echo devices it is possible to change the language that will be used for the Alexa assistant . Knowing how this kind of thing is done is very important, because if you ever buy an Amazon Echo speaker and it is in another language, you will already know how to change the language.

Creating an ‘Alexa-YouTube’ Skill for Amazon Echo

The second method to listen to music from YouTube is by making use of the creation of an Alexa Skill . To create this Skill class, you must do the following:

1. Start your phone.
2. Open the Alexa app, tap the ‘Create Skill’ optionand give the skill a name.
3. Choose the language that the skill will have, press where it says ‘Custom’ and select ‘Create Skill’.
4. Right on the left side of the menu, you’re going to select ‘JSON Editor’. Delete everything in that little box and paste the address ‘https://gist.github.com/LucioMSP/39b4efaef051b23f70914a84f82f4664’.
5. Then go to ‘Save Model‘, go to ‘Interfaces’ enable the ‘Video app’ and ‘Audio player’.
6. Then click on ‘Save interfaces’. Go to ‘EndPoint’, select ‘AWS Lambda ARN’. In the part that says ‘Default Region’ put the code ‘arn:aws:lambda:eu-west-1:175548706300:function:YouTube’.
7. Lastly, just hit ‘Save EndPoints’, go to ‘Permissions’, enable ‘Lists Read’ along with ‘Lists Write’ and you’re good to go.

That’s all you have to do to set up a YouTube skill to use with the Alexa assistant to listen to music whenever you want. It should be noted that the Amazon Echo can be connected to all kinds of Smart TVs .

What commands are supported by the ‘Alexa-YouTube’ skill?

It is very important to know the number of commands that the Alexa on the Amazon Echo can deal with, when you want to listen to music with YouTube . To put it simply, Alexa supports all kinds of voice commands, you can say ‘Alexa play Hotel California by Eagles’ and Alexa will play the song.

To play music within YouTube with Alexa, you don’t need a specific voice command , everything is free.

Music services that are natively supported on Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo that natively supports certain music services which are music purchased from Amazon, Prime Music, Amazon Music and streaming via Bluetooth. In case you ever have problems with your Amazon Echo, you can go to the web for technical support of these devices .