How to Listen to Apple Music on Amazon Echo

Uk ????

have apple ever explained why this is US only?

the bummer is you cant use this to stream on sonos.

Amazon and Apple need to allow the playing of Apple Music on non-Amazon Alexa enabled devices using Alexa!

SONOS!

the bummer is you cant use this to stream on sonos.

I have tried it for a couple months at a time over the last couple of years. It's lack of features (especially the joke of a library limit) don't keep me subscribed. They offered me a 14-day trial (again) in January. I tried but, until they let me add more than 10,000 songs to my library, I won't be using it.

Genuine question. Who needs to add 10,000 songs to a library? You can't possibly tell me you listen to 10,000 tracks per day, or even when you go away on holiday. That's over 27 days of solid music..... o_O

The last time I used to carry that amount of music was on my iPod 3G, and it was more down to bragging rights. Just add your favourite tracks and stream the rest like everyone else does. I think I have about 10 playlists totalling about 500 songs and even that's a bit OTT.

With android and android watch, Spotify just works, and everything is compatible. Spotify also works on my TV while Apple Music does not.

It's the same with Apple Music and Apple devices, just not Alexa (yet). My issue with Spotify is the service is horrendous. Their song library and download limits are an absolute joke, their solution for uploading missing content (like albums from Tool) is half-baked, and their lack of smart playlist support (at least for liked/loved content) is laughable especially considering the PC software I used in 1998 to manage my Rio 600 portable mp3 player supported those. I would like to switch to Spotify due to working on absolutely everything and it's a good service for music discovery and for people who want to be spoon-fed their content but it's a non-solution for people with large libraries and for content not available on the service. Spotify has shown zero intentions of fixing any of this and are now focused on expanding their reach into podcasts instead of actually making their service better.

I can’t figure out if this is Apple or Amazon. But it is half baked. Some features work, some still don’t.

It's both. Apple Music support was contacted by someone on Reddit and, after going back and forth for a week, someone working on the project said that they (Apple) were working closely with Amazon to make it better but don't have a timeframe for when that will happen. I've been using Amazon Music, the "free" tier for Amazon Prime members, to hold me over until Apple Music really gets integrated.

have apple ever explained why this is US only?

Apple hasn't but Amazon has, in a roundabout way. Amazon released their Amazon Music API to developers in the U.S. only. That's the API that allows them to develop their service with Alexa compatiblity instead of having to only go through Amazon. Apple (and others) can't really do anything until Amazon opens the API to more territories.