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Amazon Echo and Spotify work together really well. In this article, I will tell about the many different possibilities you have, for instance: How to control Spotify with Alexa with voice commands, how to use an Echo Device with Spotify Connect or even hot to setup a cheap multiroom solution for playing synchronised music in different rooms.
Echo Dot deals come and go all the time, but Amazon's regular sales don't offer a discount anywhere close to the deal that just popped up. For a very limited time, you can get an Echo Dot smart. Use Spotify to play music By default, Alexa plays music through Amazon Music, because obviously. But if you use Spotify, you can change this setting so that Alexa uses Spotify as the default player. Meanwhile, we'll provide the solution to Spotify free users so that you can also play Spotify on Amazon Echo even without premium. Spotify Premium: Play Spotify on Amazon Alexa. If you have subscribed to Spotify premium plan, to set up Spotify on Amazon Echo, you need to connect your Spotify account to Amazon Alexa.
Yes, I tried creating a different amazon account, added to household. What happens is that I see the echo dot devices from the amazon alexa app signed in on the tablet. So that part works as Amazon explains. But unfortunately, from the Spotify app logged on from one of my other family accounts, I still cannot see the echo dot devices.
How to setup Spotify on Amazon Echo (Alexa)
It’s very easy to use Spotify with your Amazon Device. Important: You need Premium to listen to Spotify with Alexa (free doesn’t work). Here’s how:
- If you haven’t done: Set up your Alexa device using the Amazon Alexa App.
- Go to Settings in the Alexa App, then Music & Media and link your Spotify account.
A lot of Amazon Devices are supported: Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Show, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Spot, Amazon Tap and Sonos One.
How to play Spotify songs on Alexa with Spotify Connect
The concept of Spotify Connect is simple and really easy to understand: Just play your music on the Spotify App (for instance iOS App or Desktop Mac App). Then, you can choose the Alexa Device as output channel and your Spotify App behaves like a remote control (means: you hear the music not on your iPhone or Mac, but through the speakers of your Alexa Device).
Make to sure to check this:
- All devices (your Spotify App and the Alexa Device) have to be on the same network
- You have to use the same Spotify account for all Devices
- Make to sure to run the latest software versions
Cheap Setup for streaming Spotify using an Amazon Echo Dot
Buy an Amazon Echo Dot. Connect some ordinary speakers you already have at home with a 3.5 mm audio cable. Et voilà: That’s a really cheap Spotify wireless streaming solution you can control with your smartphone.
And if you are concerned about privacy: Even if you don’t want to use the voice commands and the microphone (because of privacy reason), you can disable this functionality permanently (press the mute button at the top, the echo dot glows red and doesn’t listen any more).
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Voice Commands: How to control Spotify with Voice control
Here are some of the supported voices commands. Of course, you have to start with Alexa, ….
- “Play [title] from Spotify.”
- “Play [title] by [artist] from Spotify.”
- “Play songs by [artist] from Spotify.”
- “Play music composed by [composer] from Spotify.”
- “Play from Spotify.”
- “Play [genre] from Spotify.”
- “Play Spotify.”
- “Spotify Connect. / Connect to Spotify.” (enables Spotify Connect)
- “Show me [songs / playlists / genres / albums] from Spotify.”
And of course, you should know the basic music commands like:
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- Volume up / down
- Set volume to level [number 1-10]
- Stop
How to make Spotify your default music player on Alexa
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If you don’t want to say “… from Spotify” every time, you can setup Spotify as default music player.
- Go to Settings in the Alexa App, then Music & Media.
- Click Choose default music services and select Spotify.
Play multiroom audio on Echo devices
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Yes, this is possible! So that’s really a cheap way for playing audio in multiple rooms at the same time. You can bundle several Echo Devices in order to play synchronised audio in different rooms.