Spotify is always at the top of music streaming music services list over the years because of its large music library, attracting feature on music discovery and beautiful user interface (especially on mobile devices). It also fully supported by most of smart sound devices like Amazon Echo, Sonos, Google Home, SoundTouch, Ruku player, and etc to enhance user’s music experience, for example, users are allowed to play music on Spotify with voice control on Alexa devices.
This wikiHow teaches you how to use Alexa to play Spotify, connect your account with Alexa and set it as your default music service. While it's not necessary to set Spotify as your default, it will make voice commands easier if you want to use Spotify most often with Alexa. Currently, only Spotify Premium subscribers can play music with Alexa, free users cannot. Hi, I'm trying to connect my new Echo Dot to Spotify. I do have a premium membership, so that isn't the issue. I created my Spotify account through Facebook, and when I try to login with Facebook on the Alexa app, it says I don't have an account. When I try to set up Spotify in Amazon Alexa, it is disabled. I went to Settings Music & Media Choose Default Music Services. Spotify is there (see screenshot) but it is greyed out and cannot be selected. I have a premium account and I've tried solutions like logging in with my email instead of Facebook, etc etc. Still doesnt work. Now, tap on the tiny Device button from the bottom left corner. Spotify will open the device screen with available devices to play music. You see the Alexa devices listed on the screen in addition to the Google Home devices (if you have on the same WiFi network). Tap on the Alexa device to play Spotify Music.
Yes, it is very convenient to ask Alexa to play certain songs, playlists, artists, or albums on Spotify. The following part will show you the specific steps on how to play your Spotify music on Alexa devices with voice control.
We shall go to show you guys 2 simply ways to play Spotify music on Alexa.
Method 1: Connect Spotify Account to Alexa
Method 2: Connect Spotify to Alexa Devices Directly on App
Extra Tips Download Spotify Music / Playlists without Premium
Method 1: Connect Spotify Account to Alexa
Things You'll Need
- Spotify Premium account
- Alexa speaker capable of playing Spotify, like Amazon Echo
- A phone or tablet with Alexa app installed
Step 1 Connect sound device like Amazon Echo to Amazon Alexa app.
Please download Alexa app from Apple Store or Google Play then register it and connect it to speaker.
Step 2 Link your Spotify account to Alexa
Run Alexa app on your phone or tablet if you have installed, then tap Setting button from the left panel, then tap Music & Media on the right.
A screen will pop up to list all music streaming services supported by Alexa, and you can click 'Link Account on Spotify' from this screen.
A new screen 'Connect Alexa to your Spotify Account' will show next as displayed below. Click the green button 'Log in to Spotify' and enter your user name and password of Spotify account. If you have no Spotify account, you can use your Gmail or Facebook to sign up here directly.
Finally, a window will show up displaying 'Your Spotify account has been linked successfully'. Now, you have successfully linked Spotify account to Alexa.
Step 3 Choose Spotify as the Default Music Service
Back to the Music & Media section of the Alexa, and you will see that your Spotify account is linked. Then select Spotify as the default music service.
Step 4 Start Play Spotify Music on Alexa
Now, you can ask Alexa to play specific artists, songs, genres of music, albums or playlists on Spotify. Because you set Spotify as the default music source, it will play music automatically only from Spotify, You can also ask Alexa to raise or lower the volume, skip to the next, repeat songs and get information about the song being played with Alexa music commands.
Method 2: Connect Spotify to Alexa Devices Directly on App
Go to Spotify app to choose the Alexa devices like Amazon Echo to play music. On the bottom screen of the Now Playing, you can press 'Devices Available', and a black screen will be shown to let you choose one from list of all your connected Alexa devices. Just select one you want to play.
Extra Tips: Download Spotify Music / Playlists without Premium
Can't Select Spotify On Alexa App Tv
Spotify allows users to listen to music for free without Preminum, and this is a highly appreciated feature compared to other music streaming services, though the free account has many limitations like ads-playback, 192 Kbps in Ogg audio quality, and no offline listening. So if you want to download Spotify music with higher audio quality (320 Kbps in Ogg) for offline listening on your multiple devices, Spotify Premium account ($ 9.99 per month) is needed. But is there any way to download Spotify music or playlist to local files with free account?
Yes, of course. If you have Spotify Free account, you can turn to Sidify Music Converter to help you download Spotify music or playlist to common audio files like MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, then you can transfer these downloaded Spotify music to other portable devices like moble phones, tablets, or MP3 player for offline listening while flying, or import them to other video editor to make it as the background music.
Things You'll Need
- Spotify Free or Premium account
- Latest version of Spotify installed on PC or Mac
- Sidify Music Converter
Step 1 Launch Sidify Music Converter
Step 2 Add Spotify Music or Playlist
Click on icon and then drag and drop any music file or playlist from Spotify music app to Sidify adding window.
Step 3 Choose the Output Format
Then tap button on the top right corner to customize the output parameters including output format, output quality and conversion mode. You can choose format as MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, and if you want to download music as higher quality, you can choose FLAC as the output format, and adjust the output quality up to 320 kbps.
To help you organize the music library after finishing downloading, Sidify program supports saving the output audio into Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist folder for meeting various user's needs.
Step 4 Start Downloading
Now, you can click 'Convert' button start downloading Spotify music or playlists. After a cup of tea time, you can come back to check the downloaded Spotify music by clicking on 'Converted' button.
The Spotify music or playlists you downloaded with Sidify Music Converter would be saved to your local drive, and you can listen to them offline on multiple devices, or use it for personalized editing on other programs.
Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enable us to convert the first 3-minute audio from Spotify for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.
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Read More >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.
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).
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:
- Volume up / down
- Set volume to level [number 1-10]
- Stop
How to make Spotify your default music player on Alexa
If you don’t want to say “… from Spotify” every time, you can setup Spotify as default music player.
Can't Select Spotify On Alexa App Download
- Go to Settings in the Alexa App, then Music & Media.
- Click Choose default music services and select Spotify.
Play multiroom audio on Echo devices
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.