Alexa Cast seamlessly links your Amazon Music content to Echo speakers and more

In recent years, Google has made it incredibly easy to “cast” content from your phone or Chrome browser to both smart and “dumb” TVs, as well as Echo-rivaling speakers like the search giant’s eponymous Home family. Now Amazon is making a (timid) first step towards catching up by releasing the aptly titled Alexa Cast feature for Alexa-powered devices.

This works as seamlessly as you can imagine, minimizing the hassle of playing and controlling Amazon Music on an Echo-series smart speaker from an Android or iOS handset.
Unfortunately, the e-commerce giant’s own music streaming app is the ...