How to play Apple Music on Amazon Echo without subscription?

Can I play Apple Music on Amazon Echo without subscription? Can I play local music on Amazon Echo? You will find the answers below.

First you need to know besides music-streaming service, you can also play local music on Amazon Echo via Bluetooth. See below details.

See how to play Apple Music on Amazon Echo if you have Apple Music subscription.

Option 1. Stream Apple Music to Echo device via Bluetooth

You can stream music from your computer to your Echo device via Bluetooth. Let's use a Windows 10 computer as an example. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on your PC. Go to the Amazon Alexa page and sign in with your Amazon account. Navigate to Settings and click the name of your Echo Device.

Select Bluetooth and click Pair a New Device to link the computer with your Echo.

Select your computer when it appears in the list of devices to be paired. And then click Allow.

Now you can play music from iTunes, Windows Media Player, or any other audio program on your PC and hear the sound piped through your Echo.

Now you have learnt how to stream music from your computer to your Echo device, follow bwlow steps to download Apple Music to mp3 on your computer. You can then stream Apple Music to Amazon Echo without subscription.

Option 2. Download Apple Music to mp3 and play them with third-party Alexa skills

If you prefer to play and control Apple Music tracks through voice commands, another option is to download Apple Music playlists as local audio files and play them with third-party Alexa skills. You have some options:

My Media for Alexa (Alexa skill/app, paid) - It allows you to voice control and stream music from your home media collection to your Amazon Echo or Amazon Dot device. However you will have to have a local computer always on and running the My Media for Alexa server. It also allows you to connect to NAS devices on your local network.
Plex - With the Plex skill for Alexa, all you need to access your music and media collections on Plex is the sound of your voice. Plex users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and India can use the skill to play all their favorite content.

So all you to do is to download Apple Music songs to mp3 format and save them to your local media library or upload to Plex, you can then play Apple Music with Alexa on Amazon Echo without subscription. Here we will show you how to download Apple Music songs to mp3. You just need Ondesoft Apple Music Converter .

1. Download and Launch Apple Music Converter

Download, install and launch Ondesoft Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.

2. Sign in your Apple Music account

Click the Sign in button and enter your Apple ID.

3. Change output format(optional)

The default output format is lossless M4A. Ondesoft Apple Music Converter also supports converting Apple Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. You can also customize output file name with any combination of title, artist, album, playlist index and track ID.

4. Select music

Follow the on-screen instructions to choose the playlist or album you want to convert.

Click Add songs.

5. Start Conversion

By default, all songs in the playlist/album will be checked. If there are songs you don't want to convert, please uncheck the box. Then click Convert button to start downloading songs to the format you choose.