Amazon’s Alexa app gets more Sonos-y with new multiroom audio controls

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Amazon is making its multiroom audio platform more convenient to control with your phone. A recent update to the Alexa mobile app introduced a new capability that lets users manage and move their music between Echo devices (or groups of multiple speakers) within the app itself. (Previously, you needed to use voice commands to perform some of those actions.)

Now, it's all doable through a menu that lets you move music to any group or Alexa device with a couple of taps - no talking necessary. In our brief time trying it so far, it's pretty intuitive, and anyone that's controlled music via AirPlay or Spotify Connect shouldn't have much trouble figuring this out. Amazon's current lineup of Echo speakers includes the standard Echo, Echo Dot,...

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