Idiots Guide to Amazon Echo

[MummyGoingItAlone]

Hey, I’m thinking of bringing myself into the 21st century! I don’t have any apps for music and I’m not great with technology. I have a toddler who is constantly questioning and we always Google or go onto YouTube.

Please can you tell me the best app for music (I have an I phone) and what can I do if I bought an Alexa of some description?

Sorry to sound stupid, just looking to improve my life 🤣

Thanks in advance :)

You pay for a subscription to amazon music with the echo, although you can use your music library on your phone but I've not tried to yet.

You can do loads with Alexa, set timers, reminders, play games/music including making different playlists/audiobooks. Ask for facts/recipes (limited) ask silly questions, play the radio, get the news, ask for the time, ask to flip a coin/roll dice. If you get smart plugs you can control other things in your home like turning things on/off, if you have more than one you can send messages between them, or you can send messages to it from your phone outside the house, you can ask to find your phone and it'll ring it. There's more, but that's off the top of my head!

I have amazon music and using alexa for that is epic, but it seems that spotify has a larger range of use. Alexa can be told to shut up, if you set an alarm, her skillz are awesome.
I have used her for reminders and alarms.
You'll probably get a lot of people telling you that it's the work of the devil, but its personal choice

We use spotify with our Alexa.
And set timers and alarms. Ask her things when picking up the phone to type into google is too hard.
Tell the dc it's time for dinner rather than shouting upstairs.

And because I have teen boys...
Ask her to fart. Or how a particular person farts.
Ask her if she likes Game of Thrones.
Ask her if shes a goose. (Only funny if you know what untitled goose game is)