In the past if you have created various playlists normally you could tell Alexa play “car playlist” for example, Alexa would normally play all of the songs that you have on that playlist and noting else unless you turned on the shuffle for your playlist however Amazon made a few changes where if you ask Alexa play “car playlist” she will now say “Shuffling playlist car playlist and similar tracks”. She will play songs that are on your playlist however, you will notice that there are songs playing that are not on your playlist as she is also playing songs that are similar.
Unfortunately there is no way to turn this off for Amazon Prime member’s however the only way to turn this off is if you upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited which is a separate subscription from Amazon Prime. If you are subscribed to Amazon Prime then you do receive a discount on the separate subscription for Amazon Music Unlimited.
If you thought that was quite annoying that Amazon would shuffle your playlist and add songs that are not on your playlist Amazon didn’t stop the wonderful updates there they also made some changes to the number of skips and the number of songs you can specifically request. This resets back to zero every 60 minuets .
Number of songs can be requested per hour is six (6). (While Alexa won’t give a message like she does when you reach the maximum number of skips for free users and for Amazon Prime members if you reach the maximum number of songs requested she will recognize and identify the song that you want but then play a random song that is similar to the song you requested.
Number of songs can be skipped six (6). (When you reached the maximum number of skips, if you tell “Alexa to skip this song”, or simply say “Alexa skip” she will say the following “only six skips are allowed every 60 minutes, I couldn’t find any songs that match your request.”, if you have Amazon music unlimited subscription you have unlimited number of skips.)
I don’t understand why Amazon decided to make these changes by playing songs that are not on my playlist and shuffle my playlist, limiting the number of songs can be skipped and requested for Amazon Prime Members. After all I am paying for service, my guess is they are trying to push folks to upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited which I don’t think it’s a very good tactic even though. If you are an Amazon prime member, you do receive a discount. I think