Will Spotify Free Play On Echo Dot

  

Use voice commands to control music and podcasts with Amazon Alexa!

  1. Echo Dot Spotify Free
  2. Play Spotify On Echo

Get started

Download the Alexa app, open it, and link your Spotify account with these steps:

  1. Tap the menu in the top-left.
  2. Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
  3. Select Spotify, then Link account to Alexa.
  4. Enter your Spotify account details.

First of all, with the Premium account you don’t need a smart phone nor a computer to play music, but you can play Spotify directly on your Echo device. Whereas with the free account, you need to connect a smart phone or a laptop to the Echo device using Bluetooth and play the music on the smart phone or on the computer.

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:

  1. Tap the menu in the top-left.
  2. Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
  3. Tap Choose default music services.
    Note: To set Spotify as your default podcast service, tap Choose default podcast service.
  4. Select Spotify and tap DONE.

Note: You still need to say “on Spotify” at the end of commands to play podcasts.

  • A tutorial on how to connect Spotify to Alexa (Amazon Echo) for free using Bluetooth so you can listen to your favorite music. Amazon Echo Basic Tutorial.
  • 'Alexa, play some free songs for me' Jefferson Graham. Amazon officially began offering free ad-supported music for owners of Echo speakers Thursday. On Spotify, you can request.
  • The Echo Dot goes on sale fairly. But if you play your cards right. Which deal you take advantage of will come down to whether you have Spotify and can just get a Home Mini for free.
  • By default, however, you cannot play music as an alarm. Using this workaround, you can play any song from Spotify as an alarm on the Amazon Dot, Echo or Tap. Alexa makes a great alarm clock that.
  • Spotify Free: Play Spotify on Amazon Echo. As mentioned above, only premium users are able to play Spotify music on Amazon Echo. But Spotify free users still get chance to stream Spotify on Echo without upgrading to premium membership. As you should know, Spotify uses DRM to protect free users from downloading Spotify songs offline.

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. Spotify premium apk latest 2020.

Echo Dot Spotify Free

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.

Play Spotify On Echo

  • 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.