With your two-or-more Echo speakers on hand, let’s dive right into the painless setup process. Make sure your speakers are powered on, connected to the same network, and have easy to parse nicknames, so grouping them is painless. If you’ve never messed around with renaming your Echo products from the default naming (which is ambigious like “Jason’s Echo Dot”, “Jason’s Second Echo Dot”), check out our guide to renaming all your Echo devices with more descriptive names.
First, tap on the menu icon to bring up the left-hand navigation menu.
Next, select “Settings” from the sidebar.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see the entry for “Audio Groups”. Select the only entry in that group: “Multi-Room Music”.
In the Group configuration screen, you’ll select a group name along with a list of Echo devices that belong to that group. Tap on “Choose Group Name” at the top.
You don’t manually type in the name, however. Instead, pick the name you want from a very well populated list of potential group names. The very first group you should create is “Everywhere” to immediately unify your whole-house audio system.
Next, check off all your Echo devices (this is the “Everywhere” configuration, after all) and then click “Create Group”.
At this point, if all you wanted was every Echo in sync, you’re done. Otherwise, you can click “Create Group” again in the Groups screen displayed after you finish creating your first group, and create additional groups (such as “upstairs”, “downstairs”, “outside” and so on).
And boom, just like that, a single unified playlist is streaming to all available Echo devices in sync with each other. So whether your taste runs 1980s hard rock or 1780s instrumental, your entire home can be filled with your favorite tracks with a single voice command.
