Same thing here. Did all that was suggested to connect echo dot to spotify, but dot not appearing in spotify devices. UNTIL I did the following: In spotify - settings ( library option at top right). The option 'Show local devices only' was on. Switching this to off made the dot appear in my spotify devices list. How to connect Alexa to Spotify. Download the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Play Store or App Store; Follow the prompts to set up your new Amazon Echo or Echo Dot; Once connected, go to. How do I make Spotify the default music player on the Echo Dot? Of course, when you open up and start playing with your Echo Dot, you might wonder if I’m mistaken. That’s because saying “Alexa, play The Rolling Stones” will default to playing it on Amazon Music Unlimited – and if you don’t have it, Alexa might offer you a free trial. Changed names of all the devices still listed as '. X Echo Dot' - Allocated different IP addresses via DHCP to all my Dots - Cleared the cache / data for the Spotify an Alexa apps on my Android phone - Uninstalled and reinstalled the Spotify and Alexa apps on my Android.
“Alexa plays Ariane Grande on Spotify”. Alexa’s answer was: “Playing Ariane Grande’s songs through Spotify.” Excellent! So now I have a free 30-day Spotify Premium trial and now it works with my Amazon Echo Dot without a hitch. This is all you need to connect the Spotify music application with Amazon Echo via the Amazon Alexa app. Open Spotify app and say; Alexa, Spotify connect to wirelessly stream music on a nearby connected Echo device. If you are using the free tier of Spotify, then you might have to listen to ads as. Can you play free Spotify on Alexa? Yes, there is a way to use Spotify with Alexa even if you don’t have a Premium account. To do it, you just need to have the Spotify app in your smart phone or computer, and connect it with your Echo device using Bluetooth.
Use voice commands to control music and podcasts with Amazon Alexa!
Get started
Download the Alexa app, open it, and link your Spotify account with these steps:
- Tap the menu in the top-left.
- Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
- Select Spotify, then Link account to Alexa.
- Enter your Spotify account details.
Set Spotify as your default service for music and podcasts so you don’t need to specify “on Spotify” at the end of your voice commands to play music:
- Tap the menu in the top-left.
- Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
- Tap Choose default music services.
Note: To set Spotify as your default podcast service, tap Choose default podcast service. - Select Spotify and tap DONE.
Spotify On Echo Dot
Note: You still need to say “on Spotify” at the end of commands to play podcasts.
Now just ask Alexa to play something! E.g. 'Alexa, play Discover Weekly'. Check out the Amazon help site for supported languages.
Supported devices
Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Spot, Amazon Echo Show, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV Cube, and all Sonos players.
Need help?
For help setting up and troubleshooting, go to the Amazon help site.
Check out other articles on our support site for help with your Spotify account and payments, listening offline, or if you can’t play music.
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.
- Go to Settings in the Alexa App, then Music & Media.
- Click Choose default music services and select Spotify.
Play multiroom audio on Echo devices
Play Spotify On Echo Dot
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.