Spotify App Play On Echo

Part 1: Play Spotify on Amazon Echo for Spotify Premium. If you have a premium account, you can easily play any Spotify songs on Amazon Echo as long as you use Spotify with Alexa on Amazon Echo. Open the Amazon Echo app on your phone, then tap the menu on the top left and select Settings. Under “Account”, tap on “Music.

So you just unwrapped an AmazonAlexa, Echo, or EchoDot—maybe someone who really gets you gifted one, or perhaps the holidays inspired you to treat yo’ self. Don’t start the new year with the smart speaker still sitting in its box. Setting it up to play classic, pop, and everything else is a done deal in three steps.

  1. Test Spotify on your Amazon Alexa Echo Speaker to Continue with Spotify Setup on Amazon Echo. You may now speak commands to Alexa to play music, comedy, or any other recording in the Spotify library. Just ask, as in. Okay Alexa, play Bob Dylan, Rainy Day Woman on Spotify. Alexa, play some party music on Spotify. Hey Alexa, play Harold Perry on.
  2. Here is how one can now play Spotify on Amazon Alexa and Echo devices for free. Open Spotify app and say; Alexa, Spotify connect to wirelessly stream music on a nearby connected Echo device.
  3. Using Spotify with Amazon Echo. Spotify is a great music streaming service that provides both free and premium tiers for listening to music. Unfortunately, only the premium membership works with the Echo. So, let’s get started with getting the Amazon Echo to stream music from our Spotify account. Countries With Spotify Support.
  4. A tutorial on how to connect Spotify to Alexa (Amazon Echo) for free using Bluetooth so you can listen to your favorite music. Amazon Echo Basic Tutorial.

What you’ll need: your new device, the Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet, and your Spotify login info. Here’s how to connect Amazon Alexa to Spotify:

Up until now, if you wanted to play Spotify music on the Amazon Echo, you had to say the artist or song you wanted to play and then tack on “on Spotify” at the end. It’s a little cumbersome, but now you no longer have to do that, as you can set Spotify as your Echo’s default music provider. NOW DO MORE WITH ALEXA AND YOUR SONY SMART TV Use your voice to view your cameras, play music, or control your smart TV. Just connect any Alexa-enabled device to your Alexa compatible Sony Smart TV to get started. MUSIC YOU LOVE Listen to music from Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify.

Play Spotify On Echo

  1. First, download the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Play or App store, and follow the prompts to set up your new Amazon Echo or Echo Dot.
  2. Once connected, go to “Settings,” select “Music,” click “Link New Service,” and then tap “Spotify” to input your Spotify username and password.
  3. Select “Default Services” to set Spotify as your default music service—et voilà.

Bonus hack: Once Alexa is up and running, you can even listen to another user’s Spotify account. Just ask Alexa to “Spotify Connect,” and the device will search for another one on the same Wi-Fi network. Stealing your holiday houseguests’ excellent playlists is encouraged.

Ready? Try asking Alexa to play the very best of your library, or help you discover something new, by saying:

“Alexa…”

  • “Play Spotify.”
  • “Play my Discover Weekly.”
  • “Play hip-hop music.”
  • “Pause.”
  • “Resume Spotify.”
  • “Like this song.”
  • “Play the next song.”
  • “What’s playing?”
  • “What’s this album?”

Amazon Echo speakers let you stream music from various services and devices. Typically, you issue the command 'Alexa, play music' followed by the name of the streaming partner. If you use a service regularly, such as Spotify, you can avoid adding the streaming partner name to your command by making it the default provider. That's what we will tell you in this post. Let's see how to add Spotify as default music service on Amazon Echo..

Earlier, users from select regions enjoyed listening to Spotify on Amazon Echo as the service was limited to the Spotify Premium subscribers. In some countries, the Spotify service on Echo was unavailable for premium and free subscribers. Fortunately, that changed recently when Spotify made streaming possible for several countries for Spotify Free users in U.K., Ireland, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Mexico, and India.

Let’s see how to link Spotify to Amazon Echo and make it the default music provider.

How to Link Spotify and Choose It as Default For Music in Amazon Echo

You will need the Alexa app for this procedure. The overall idea is broken into two methods — link Spotify with Amazon and make it a default provider. Let’s check the steps.

Link Spotify to Amazon Echo

Before making Spotify the default music provider, it’s important to link the Spotify account to your Amazon Echo device. Here are the steps for the same.

Step 1: Launch the Alexa app on your smartphone. Log in to the Amazon account registered with your Echo device, in case you haven't set it up yet. You should check our guide on how to set up the Echo like a pro.

Step 2: Tap on the three-bar icon at the top. From the menu, select Settings.

Step 3: Scroll down and tap on Music.

Step 4: Tap on Link New Service. Choose Spotify on the next screen.

Note: In case you don’t see Spotify, it might not be supported by Amazon Echo in your country. Alternatively, it might be still rolling out in your region. So try after a few hours or a day.

Step 5: You will be taken to the Spotify skill page. Tap on Enable to use.

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Step 6: Now, you will have to add your Spotify account. Tap on Settings for that on the Spotify skills screen. On the next screen, tap on the Link account.

Step 7: Log in with your Spotify account details and agree to the terms and conditions. When done, you will see the confirmation screen.

Another way to link Spotify and Echo is to issue the command, ‘Alexa, enable Spotify skill’. That will add Spotify under the list of available music services in the Alexa app in Settings > Music. Then tap on Spotify and follow the steps 6 and 7 mentioned above to link accounts.

Make Spotify as Default for Music in Amazon Echo

After linking Spotify in the Alexa app, you can easily make it the default service. In case you don’t do so, you will need to use Spotify at the end of all your voice commands. For instance, ‘Alexa, play XYZ playlist on Spotify.’ If Spotify isn’t the default provider, Amazon will fetch music from its music service or another default service. Sometimes, Echo will not play any music, check various ways to fix the problem.

Here are the steps to make Spotify the default music service.

Step 1: Open the Alexa app and go to Settings from the three-bar icon.

Step 2: Tap on Music followed by Default services.

Step 3: Tap on Spotify to choose it as Default Music Library. You can also select Spotify as a default station.

How to Control Spotify on Amazon Echo

When Alexa and Spotify are linked successfully, and you start playing something, you can control that in several ways. Firstly, you can use the Alexa app or through the web on alexa.amazon.com. You can also use the Spotify app or its web version at open.spotify.com.

Lastly, you can use the following Spotify commands on your Echo device:

  • Alexa, Play Spotify
  • Alexa, Play (name of the playlist)
  • Alexa, Like this song
  • Alexa, What’s playing
  • Alexa, Play my Discover weekly
  • Alexa, Shuffle (playlist name) playlist
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If playlists do not work as intended, say ‘Alexa, play (playlist name) playlist.’ And if Alexa plays a random playlist instead of the one created by you, add word my to your command, i.e., ‘Alexa, play my Best songs playlist.’

Tip: Avoid using punctuations, acronyms, or difficult titles as your Spotify playlist names.
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Bonus: Set Spotify Alarms on Echo

Besides playing songs from Spotify, you can use Spotify to set a specified song, playlist, or artist as your alarm tone in Echo. For that, issue commands like:

  • Alexa, wake me up at 7:00 am to Best songs playlist
  • Alexa, wake me up at 8:30 am to Somebody’s me

Alexa Won’t Play Spotify

Sometimes, you will be bothered by the lack of communication between Alexa and Spotify. If Alexa doesn’t play from Spotify, update the Alexa app, or relink your Spotify account to Echo. You can also try disabling the Spotify Skill and then enable it back.

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Competition Is Strong

We are glad that Spotify is finally available for Free users in many countries on the Echo. It was high time that Spotify introduced the feature as the competition is growing day by day. Amazon has its own music service, which offers great competition to Spotify. Even YouTube Music and Apple Music provide great services. Talking about Apple Music, you can use the same steps mentioned above to link Apple Music to Echo. The only difference is that you need to select Apple Music instead of Spotify.

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