For privacy concerns, amazon echo does not have a “shazam” feature.

Can alexa identify a song. Click the menu icon in the top left corner after launching the alexa app. Go to settings, then choose music & podcasts. Or say “alexa, what is the name of.

In case you didn’t know, alexa can help you find that one song with those one lyrics that go sort of like “blah blah blah” or whatever. A section option allows users to have a song identified by either humming or singing instead. Choose the music service you want to connect to by.

This can be done by saying, “alexa, turn on a song id.” after that, you can ask alexa to identify the. “alexa” is the wake word by default, and judging by the title of your post you said “alexa” followed by the question. Addiitonally, song id is exclusive to amazon music, so.

To enable alexa to identify songs, you need to first enable the song id feature. It has multiple microphones to listen to external sounds, and it can also play music.so. While listening to amazon music, you can now ask alexa in very general terms to find music you listened to earlier or play something you haven't heard recently.

For example, you could say something like “alexa, play that. Echo devices can only identify songs that are being streamed from amazon music. In the meanwhile, there’s a reasonable workaround:

All you need to do is say “ alexa, what song is this? Presumably, the company has data that shows that people ask alexa what song is playing a lot, hence the new feature. Song id when you're listening to a new song you've never heard, it can be annoying to interrupt the song by asking alexa what it's called or who sings it.