Has your smart speaker become a beloved member of your family? From its spot on your kitchen counter, bedside table, or living room entertainment unit, these devices can provide hours of audio entertainment. Spotify Free users will be able to hear their favorite music on even more smart speakers, including from Amazon, Sonos, and Bose.
The Amazon Echo is a handy device which can work with lots of applications like it's default service of Amazon Music or other services including Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio. If you want to connect Spotify account to Amazon Echo for playing songs, you need to upgrade to Premium because Spotify Free isn't supported connecting to Amazon Echo.
That’s right—free users in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. will, for the first time, be able to ask Alexa to play Today’s Top Hits, their Discover Weekly, or a custom-made playlist on their Amazon Echo or Fire TV. Not sure how to link your Spotify account to your new Alexa, or set Spotify as your default music player? Learn how here.
- Spotify Free users can play their favorite music on even more smart speakers; not only Amazon Echo speakers, but Sonos speakers like the One and Beam – and Bose ones too. Try Amazon Music for free Before, there was no automatic provision for music built into the Echo or Alexa, but you could access Prime Music if you were an Amazon Prime.
- Plan: Family / Free/Premium: Premium / Country: UK / Device: Amazon (Alexa) Echo Dot My Question or Issue: I have a family account that my wife and my 9 year old daughter use, as well as myself. My daughter has an echo dot in her bedroom and spotfiy is connected to that. The problem is that it seems.
Free users around the world can also set up Spotify Connect with their Sonos speakers directly from the Spotify app. Spotify Connect works with all Sonos speakers, including the new Sonos Move, a durable, battery-powered smart speaker for great sound indoors, outdoors, and on the go. You can also connect wirelessly with the SYMFONISKIKEA WiFi Speaker—fully integrated in the Sonos Home Sound System—to play music in any or every room for a rich, home-filling sound.
Spotify Free Users can now start streaming through their Bose smart speakers and soundbars as well. Through Spotify Connect, you can use Spotify on your smartphone or desktop as a remote to get the jams going.
To play music using your Smart Speaker through Spotify Connect, first make sure that your Sonos or Bose system is updated to the latest firmware. Then open the Spotify app on your phone, laptop or tablet. Play any song, then select the “devices” icon. Finally, select the device you want to stream from and start listening. For more detailed instructions, visit our support page.
Incorporating Spotify into these devices is all part of our goal to create a truly frictionless experience for our users. Play from your phone, transition to your smart speaker, back to the phone, over to the car—with just a tap or the sound of your voice.
Head over to Spotify Everywhere to see more of the smart devices that allow free users to stream their favorite music, wherever, whenever.
Update June 23, 2020: Starting today, Spotify Free users in the U.K., Ireland, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Mexico, will begin to be able to stream Spotify through Amazon Alexa. Both Spotify Free and Premium users in India will also be able to stream Spotify through Amazon Alexa for the first time.
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With Spotify and Amazon Alexa integration, you can listen to music on your Amazon Echo device. (Image: Bloomberg)
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.
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* 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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