Now of course in this day and age we don't have CD players, so it’s a little strange to still have a music service with that name. To be honest, these days I am absolutely in love with my Amazon Echo and I have several Echo units all around my home. My main one is an Echo Show, which is on my kitchen counter, and I use that to play music whenever I want to hear something, usually from a streaming service like Amazon Music.

So I thought, wait a minute, there must be a way to get these files that I've just purchased and downloaded onto my MacBook computer and ask my Amazon Echo to play them for me. I did a little bit of research, and I found a really interesting service called My Pod, which you can find at mypodapp.com. You can link your Amazon account with this free service, upload your music to a Google Drive folder, share that folder link, and then you simply ask your Echo device to play that song. So I'm going to walk you through the steps to set My Pod up with your songs and your Amazon Echo device.

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