How to connect Spotify to Alexa

Amazon Alexa, or Alexa, is the virtual assistant technology purchased by Amazon in 2013. It has been used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio, Amazon Tap and Sonos speakers. Once connected, you can use Alexa to play music from popular streaming services. Here is how to connect Spotify to Alexa to play Spotify on both Echo and another smart speaker.

Contents

• Option 1. Connect Spotify to Alexa via Alexa app
• Option 2. Connect Spotify to Alexa via Spotify app
• Option 3. Connect Spotify to Alexa via browser
• How to fix Alexa not playing Spotify?
• How to play Spotify free on Alexa without ads?

Option 1. Connect Spotify to Alexa via Alexa app

1. Open the Alexa app.
2. Tap More, and then Settings.
3. Under Alexa Preferences, select Music & Podcasts.
4. Select Link New Service.
5. Select Spotify and follow the on-screen instructions.

Once Spotify and Alexa are linked, ask Alexa to play something, for example, "Alexa, play Discover Weekly on Spotify." You can select Spotify as the default player, so you don't have to say on Spotify every time.

How to set Spotify as the default music service?

1. Open the Alexa app.
2. Tap More, and then Settings.
3. Under Alexa Preferences, select Music & Podcasts.
4. Tap Your Default Services.
5. Select Spotify and tap DONE.

Now you can just say "Alexa, play Discover Weekly". However, you still need to say “on Spotify” at the end of commands to play podcasts.

If you want to play music in a specific room (other than the one you are in), a group of speakers, or anywhere in your home, you need to add the relevant information to the request. For example:

• “Alexa, play music by Flying Lotus in the Kitchen.”
• “Alexa, play my Release Radar playlist everywhere.”

Option 2. Connect Spotify to Alexa via Spotify app

In the Spotify app, click your profile picture then Settings and privacy > Voice Assistants & Apps.

There should be an option to link Amazon Alexa. After linking, you can also set Spotify as default.

Option 3. Connect Spotify to Alexa via browser

Visit Alexa Spotify skill page, log in your Amazon account and click Enable.

How to set Alexa to stop palying songs after finish a playlist?

Make sure "enhanced playlist" is off for that particular playlist. Otherwise it auto-fills similar songs to mix into the original list. You can also set a sleep timer to match your playlist length. Say Alexa, set sleep timer for 90 minutes.

How to fix Alexa not playing Spotify?

Here are some free troubleshooting steps you can try if Alexa not playing Spotify.

• If your speakers aren't appearing in Spotify Connect, say, "Alexa, Spotify Connect." That speaker should appear.

• Power cycling your speakers.

• Unlinking and re-linking the Spotify skill in your Alexa app.

How to play Spotify free on Alexa without ads?

Since November 20, 2019, free users in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. have been 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. Starting June 23, 2020, Spotify Free users in the U.K., Ireland, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Mexico, are able to stream Spotify through Amazon Alexa. However, this feature is still not available to users in other countries.

Although you can play Spotify on Alexa with free account, you will hear ads occassionally. How to get rid of Spotify ads on Alexa? Here we will show you an easy way.

My Media for Alexa is an app for Windows, Mac, Linux that allows you to voice control and stream music from your home media collection to your Amazon Echo or Amazon Dot device. So if you can download Spotify music to your local computer, you can then stream them with Alexa.

Here we will show you an easy way to download Spotify music to mp3 with free account and them stream them with Alexa.

Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter is a professional Spotify to mp3 converter that helps you to download any Spotify songs, albums and playlists to mp3 without quality loss. The following guide shows how to convert Spotify music to MP3 only in 3 steps.

Step 1: Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your computer.

Log in your Spotify account, premium or free.

Step 2 : Customize Output Settings

Click the gear icon on the top right corner to open Settings window. Here you can change the output format to MP3, choose output quality, rename the output file and set the output folder.

Step 3 : Select Spotify music for converting

Browse or search within the built-in Spotify web player to find the songs, albums or playlists you want to download. Click it and Spotify Converter will load all songs.

Step 4 : Convert Spotify music to MP3

After selecting songs to the converter, click the Convert button, the converter will start to convert Spotify music to MP3.

When the conversion is done, click the History button, then you will find all converted Spotify songs. Transfer the songs to the folder you choose when you set My Media for Alexa. Then you can ask Alexa to play them to your Amazon Echo or Amazon Dot device.