How to Add an Amazon Echo Device to Your Mac’s Music Library

Echo devices bring Alexa into your home – to shop, control smart home devices and do over fifty things. At times, you just want to listen to certain songs from your Mac, let us take cases that would limit the time spent on the computer.

Echo devices by Amazon are also speakers, and such devices can be effortlessly connected to other gadgets making your music library portable to any place where Alexa is present.

In this article I will explain how you can pair your Mac with an Echo and also get Alexa to work with Apple Music.

How to Pair an Amazon Echo Device with Mac Music Library Instructions

Echo is capable of doing a plethora of things, and at the same time, connecting to a Mac can probably be considered one of the simplest tasks that the device can perform.

Echo devices control very well serving as Bluetooth speakers whereby one can play offline music.. Basically, it is possible to connect your Mac with an Echo device through Bluetooth in lots of ways, which all have a couple of steps to complete.

Cable Pairing

This is a quite simple process, which takes a few minutes to make your Mac OS to discover the Echo device. Here’s what to do.

1. Plug the Echo device into the Mac through the USB cable.
2. On your keyboard, press Command and click the Apple logo at the top of the screen and choose the System Preferences.
3. Select Bluetooth.
4. The turn Bluetooth On button is found on the screen; click on it.
5. Here you will get a list of devices currently searchable by your Macs Bluetooth. Select your Echo device should be displayed. If it doesn’t, I tell Alexa to pair my device.
6. When your Echo device appears on the Bluetooth list, tap “Connect,” which is located next to it.
7. A sound will come out from your Echo device to indicate that the two devices have been paired. For testing, let us play some music.

Pairing via Alexa Account

You can also link both your devices to your Alexa account. To do this, you’ll have to go to its page on your browser and then navigate to its settings. Here’s how:

1. Access your Alexa account at Alexa. Amazon. Com and log in.
2. Choose ‘Settings’ in the list of options in the left-hand column.
3. Locate the device on the mentioned list and choose the device.
4. Go to Bluetooth and then click the blue button that says ‘Pair a New Device’.
5. Your Echo Device will then scan the surrounding devices for Bluetooth connection.
6. Click the icon that looks like an apple in the top bar and select System Preferences.
7. Tap Bluetooth, and subsequently, make sure that the Bluetooth is active.
8. It should be listed under devices, so you should be able to see your Echo device there. Click the Connect button.
9. Your two devices should then pair, and you’ll hear a tone for this process on your Echo device.

Using the App

Alexa also has its own application, which can be installed on iPhone or iPad for ease of connection. Although they do not have a Mac version for the app, the iOS app can be used to serve as a bridge to get your Echo device connected to your Mac. If you are already using the app, repeat the following two steps. Here’s what to do:

1. There you have to type Alexa in the search bar on your Apps Store or Google it. Download the app.
2. Launch the application and then type in your credentials to sign in.
3. Under your app, select the Echo Devices.
4. Choose the Echo device with which you want your Mac to connect with.
5. Tap Connect a device.
6. To connect Echo device with your Mac, go to ‘System Preferences’ and then ‘Bluetooth’. Your Echo device should be visible in the Bluetooth list.
7. As you hear a tone, your devices should be connected if you click on Connect.
8. You should now be able to play music; you should be able to control the playlist, and any playback electronics are present.

It’s also possible to trigger the connection between iPhone or iPad and Alexa at any instance using the app. It is simple, but I mean you just have to repeat the process with your pairing the other mobile device instead of the PC.

Link Your Echo Device With Apple Music

If you listen to most of your music on Mac through membership, Apple Music then you can also make your Echo Device to do the same. It also means that you need not leave the Mac open in order to play some tunes.

To do this, one has to ensure he/she has an active Apple Music subscription and the Alexa app installed on an iOS device. That means you will need to set up Alexa, which is the first step in setting up the device to work for you. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Step one involves opening the Alexa app on the smart device that you are using.
2. Then click the More button and look for Skills & Games.
3. The next thing you need to do is to key in Apple Music into the search bar.
4. Press Enable To Use.
5. For example, you will be forced to connect your Apple account with your Echo device. Through the app, one taps on the Settings option and then Link Account.
6. Complete the steps and enter your Apple ID.

For one to listen to the Apple Music songs on the Echo device, Alexa will be triggered through the command of, “play [song title] on Apple Music and in some cases, the author will have to be stated for an accurate search to be made.

However, if you wish to eliminate even these extra steps, you always have the ability to set your Apple Music as the default music app. Here’s how:

1. As you will be sticking to the Alexa app, press the More button.
2. Open the settings and select Music & Podcasts.
3. Select Default Services and, afterward – Apple Music.
4. Your Echo device to play Apple Music in a default manner.

Connecting Your Echo to the Other Speakers

It may be due to the fact that you are in one room and want to listen music from another room or it may be that the music that is currently playing needs a little boost.

In any of the cases, it is also easy to pair Alexa with other Bluetooth speakers, either through a cable or Bluetooth. This is done by linking an Echo device to a different speaker, thereby making it to be different.

To connect via cable:

1. Get a 3. Cable audio 5 mm male to male.
2. Insert one Terminal into the Aux Out port, which is available on an Echo device.
3. Connect the other end of the cord to the Aux In port of your external speaker.
4. Play music in order to check the connection.

For the wireless mode with more range, you can use a Bluetooth connection for, but, as you may know, Bluetooth speakers have to match your Echo device. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Open the Alexa App on your smart device and then choose Echo Devices.
2. Go to Bluetooth and select Connect a device according to the device you are going to connect to.
3. Make sure that your other speaker is around and its Bluetooth feature is on.
4. As the app shows a speaker option for syncing with the Echo device, tap on the speaker.
5. In each of the speakers, a tone should be set. Play a song to check how everything works with the connection.

Turn Up the Music

Music is a great addition to every task or a chore, and, as for the Amazon Echo and Amazon’s Echo Dot, linking it to a Mac or Apple Music is very simple.

Unfortunately, Alexa will not able to fully integrate itself into your Mac’s systems but you can just user Alexa as a Bluetooth speaker to play iTunes offline or online. Now, and all that is left to do is to choose your favorite song.

I like to ask What is the music player that you normally use in your selected Echo device? When playing music do you choose to sync your Mac or Apple Music? Please let us decide in the comment section below.