Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has a wide variety of music-related capabilities, but when it came to playlists, it couldn’t do anything but play them, that is, until today. You can now ask Alexa to create a playlist on the fly by saying “Create a playlist called [Playlist Name].” To add a song to any playlist, say “Add this song to my [Playlist Name] playlist” while the song is playing. You can also add a song and create a new playlist in one go by saying “Add this song to a new playlist named [Playlist Name].” There doesn’t seem to be a way to add a song to a playlist by name while it is not currently being played. You are also unable to remove songs from playlists using Alexa, nor are you able to delete a playlist entirely. Those tasks will still need to be done through Amazon’s website or apps. Alexa’s new playlist capabilities work with Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited.

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