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Since launching in 2014, Alexa has grown far beyond its original role as a simple voice assistant for music and reminders.

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But music playback is one of the top uses of Alexa and of Echo speakers, so adding back-and-forth dialogue to music discovery is a meaningful attempt to push Alexa forward.

As of today, you can use Alexa to start liking or disliking songs, albums, playlists, or stations. Amazon Music will then factor in those signals when you ask to play some music.

A more full-featured ad-free music offering, Amazon Music Unlimited, is available for $9.99 monthly, or $7.99 monthly for Prime members. Amazon says it has access to around 50 million songs.

But these have been simple voice commands, like “Alexa, play pop music,” for example, or “Alexa, play the song that goes…”, followed by some lyrics. Now, Alexa will be able to have more ...

However, the new “music for activities” feature powered by Alexa goes beyond that. There are now over 500 different activity utterances (voice commands) supported.