Explore categories to discover a podcast of interest, then a specific episode.You can also use TuneIn’s search bar at any time to find a particular podcast. Within the main menu, select Music, Video, & Books.Open the Alexa App on your mobile device or at.You can also use the Alexa app to find and control podcasts. Seek out the ones that suit your unique interests.) Play podcasts from the Alexa app. (The niche nature of podcasts is what makes them so fantastic. You can also ask Alexa simply to “play a podcast,” and she’ll play one you inevitably won’t like. Should you temporarily switch to another podcast, music or alternative audio source, Alexa cannot resume from your stopping point you’ll need to restart the episode from the beginning. While you cannot name a specific episode of a podcast, you can play the one that precedes the episode currently playing: “Alexa, play the previous episode.” If you ask, “Alexa, play the podcast Revisionist History,” she’ll summon the latest episode from the service. Listen without adding skills.īy default, Alexa serves podcasts via TuneIn. Here’s everything you need to know about the current state of podcasts on Alexa, including a few listening options with varying degrees of playback control.

We eagerly await the ability to sync with podcast apps like Pocket Cast, Stitcher and Downcast in order to manage subscriptions and keep tabs on what we have, and haven’t, heard. At the moment, you won’t find for podcast services the deep integration users enjoy with Spotify. There’s plenty of room to improve the podcast experience on Alexa, however. Audio-centric, personal and uniquely intimate, Alexa and podcasts complement each other beautifully, and listening to podcasts is among Alexa’s most popular uses. As we adopt Alexa and other voice assistants at a phenomenal rate, we’re also listening to more podcasts, more often.

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