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By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | June 26, 2020 3:01:54 pm
With Spotify and Amazon Alexa integration, you can listen to music on your Amazon Echo device. (Image: Bloomberg)I just upgraded my Spotify from the premium to the Family plan-partly because my kids keep taking over Spotify from their Amazon Echo devices. So, my plan was to create usernames for each of them under our new family plan.so everyone can listen to what they want on Spotify at the same time. Spotify are giving away Google Nest Minis for free to Premium users. This deal is going until the end of September or as long as stocks last, so if you’re interested you’d better get a shift on.
https://newfreedom473.weebly.com/spotify-free-with-att-unlimited.html. Spotify has announced that its premium and free tier users can now stream their music and podcasts directly on your Amazon Echo devices. The company claims that users will now be able to request Alexa in English, Hindi or Hinglish to play music by artist, album, track, genre, curated and personal playlists, as well as podcasts from their Spotify accounts.
How to get Spotify on your Amazon Echo smart speaker
* Open the Alexa app linked to your Echo device on your phone.
* Now head over to the Settings Menu.
* Select the ‘Music’ option.
* Tap on the ‘Link New Service’ button.
* This will bring up a list of services. There you need to tap on Spotify.
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* Now you will be required to enter your Spotify username and password.
* After signing in, select the ‘Default Services’ button to set Spotify as your default music service.
After the connection of your Spotify account with your Amazon Alexa account is complete, you can request Alexa on your Echo device to play music or podcasts from Spotify. You can control music playback with voice commands like “Alexa, play Badshah songs on Spotify”, “Alexa, play meditational music on Spotify” and more.
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You can also control music playback from within the Spotify app. You are just required to say “Alexa, Spotify connect”, after which your Echo device will be discoverable in the Spotify app. You can select it and control music playback from your phone.
Spotify has also announced that it will soon be bringing support to other Alexa powered devices like the Fire TV and mobile devices. However, the company has not given a timeline as to when this feature will be made available to customers.
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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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Read MoreStep 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. https://newfreedom473.weebly.com/blog/philips-smart-tv-spotify-app. 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
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.’ Spotify desktop player.
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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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Read MoreCompetition 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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