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one of the most practical ways to use Amazon echo right now is as a music player as long as your Prime member you have free access to a huge library of music and for everyone there's also I Heart Radio and tune in you might already know that playing a song or album is as easy as requesting it but if you want Alexa to choose your music you can just ask her like this Alexa play some upbeat music a prime playlist for pop 50 great pop songs of the 2000s Alexa stop now if you have your phone handy head over to the Amazon echo app and you'll see the album art show up in the home feed tap it and you'll have a few options first of all you can control the music using the app instead of using voice commands in the next tab you can view the list of songs coming up in the playlist and if you tap one it will start playing that song and finally in the history tab you can view all the songs that recently played and you'll see more options like creating a new station for that song don't forget that you can go beyond prime music if you want live local radio just ask Alexa play star 101.3 on iHeartRadio star 101.3 on iHeartRadio you can also play podcasts like Alexa play the serial podcast getting the latest episode of serial here it is from Tunis support for serial comes from audible a gateway Alexa stop unfortunately those are the only extra audio options you have right now but hopefully we'll see more things like Spotify and Pandora as Alexa grows up if you're an early adopter of Amazon echo and you have some of your own tips you want to share hit me up on Twitter and check out cnet.com slash how-to for more tips like this for CNET I'm Sharon Profis Alexa play some upbeat music