Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #815

Hey there, it’s Teri Fisher here with your flash briefing for Wednesday, and if you’ve been following along, you know that over the last couple of days I was speaking about the different types of Amazon music offerings that they have and how it is now possible to listen to free music on Alexa.

Well, I want to clarify this a little bit, and in fact, I received an email from a PR person at Amazon who wanted to clarify a few things and I do appreciate that very much and I want to clarify it with you.

So here is what is the actual information about the different types of music offerings that are available through Amazon and how you can access them on Alexa.

First of all, there is an Amazon music free tier, this is the new one that was just announced last week, and it is a service that customers can enjoy without any cost at all.

There is no duration limit and they don’t need to do anything to set it up, it is by default what you will get with Alexa.

It offers music for free with ads, you don’t get specific access to specific songs but you can request certain music stations.

And so I’ll give you some examples, you can say, I want to listen to pop culture or country heat or rap rotation or Canada now or you can say play Billie Eilish, play 80s music, play rap music and you will hear music stations that play that music, but you can’t necessarily specify the particular songs, okay? So that’s Amazon music free tier.

You don’t get specific access to specific songs but you can request certain music stations.

Amazon Music Options for Alexa

Then there is the Amazon music free trial, and this is a different experience.

This is the free version of Amazon music unlimited, and you can test this for a limited time, currently it’s three months for free.

If you want to keep using that afterwards, then you pay for the service, there are no ads and the customers can request specific songs, and that was launched in September of 2018 and then there is prime music.

This is what is included in the membership if you are a prime member.

So in Canada, Prime members can stream over 1 million songs for free, including hundreds of playlists and stations and so on, that’s ad free on demand, and that comes with your prime subscription.

So I hope that helps to clarify some of the services, there are a lot of options there, I think it’s great that there’s a lot of options.

Don’t be overwhelmed by the options, sometimes when there’s a lot of options, it can be difficult to know which one to go with, but obviously the free tier is there for you to use and enjoy right off the bat.

If you want more control and you want to be able to specify certain songs, then you either going to have your prime music with your prime subscription or you’re going to be subscribing to Amazon music unlimited, but again, there is a three-month free trial currently, okay?

So if you want to check that out, then please go ahead.

If you want to use my affiliate link, you just go to AlexainCanada.ca/Prime and I would appreciate that, of course, there’s no extra cost to you whatsoever.

There you go, hope you have a wonderful day.

I will talk to you again tomorrow.

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Voice in Canada Skill Logo1. Open your Alexa app and click on the Menu button > Settings > Flash Briefing.
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3. Click on “Voice in Canada” and the Enable button.

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