Finally, the Portable Smart Speaker is water resistant and does not have an AUX input, while the Home Speaker 300 and Smart Speaker 500 are not water-resistant and do include AUX.Īll three speakers share the same voice, app, and software features, including your choice of Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, compatibility with the Bose Music app, Apple AirPlay 2, Bluetooth, the ability to synchronize in multi-room groups, and more. The reason: Alexa doesn’t have a YouTube app. Note: Make sure to say show and not open. Alexa will stop the audio track and say Goodbye. If you want to play music from YouTube using your Alexa Echo Show.

At any time the user can ask Alexa to stop playing. Alexa starts playing the audio from the video URL.

The service calls YouTube API to search for a video, then returns the URL to Alexa. The Smart Speaker 500 also includes a display screen to show you what’s playing. When asked to play a certain video, Alexa Interface calls the service using the query as the parameter. This skill helps to play music from youtube music on your amazon echo device NOTE: The skill will not be published for public use as it can incur charges due to AWS Lambda usage. It's always the same songs, and those songs are always the A-side single and there are almost no deep cuts from the album it came from. Alexa Youtube Music Skill Alexa does not provide native integration to neither youtube nor youtube music. Meanwhile, the larger Bose Smart Speaker 500 is our best-sounding smart speaker, providing wall-to-wall stereo sound from a single enclosure. I've always felt that Youtube Music has a pretty good finger on the pulse of what I like and which artists want to listen to but I also have noticed that in the way it presents music to me. Acoustically, the Portable Smart Speaker and the Home Speaker 300 have comparable performance, with the same 360-degree sound and impressively rich bass from similarly compact sizes.

The Bose Portable Smart Speaker is our only portable smart speaker, while the Bose Home Speaker 300 and Smart Speaker 500 have no battery and must be plugged into the wall to function. Technically, Alexa can’t play music from YouTube since Alexa doesn’t support the service app. Register as an Amazon Developer if you haven’t already done so.

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