How To Connect Spotify To Amazon Alexa Echo

If you’re a Spotify enthusiast, the good news is that you can seamlessly connect Spotify to Alexa, bringing your music to life with just a vocal cue. In this blog, we’ll unravel the steps to sync these two powerful platforms, allowing you to effortlessly control your Spotify playlists, artists, and genres using the magic words, “Alexa, play…”

Let’s learn how to connect Spotify with Alexa and make it the default music player in the Alexa app.

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Alexa Enabled Devices

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Amazon Tap
Amazon FireTV cube
Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo Dot
Amazon Echo Spot
Amazon Echo Show

Sonos Players

Step By Step Guide To Connect Spotify To Amazon Alexa Echo

With your Alexa device and Spotify account details on hand, you can now effortlessly link the two platforms by following the below-mentioned steps:

Step 1:

Access the Alexa App on your Android.

Step 2:

Navigate to Settings and scroll down until you encounter “Music and Podcasts.”

Select 3:

Select “Music and Podcasts,” and if it isn’t available, use the tabs to select between Personal and Family Defaults.

Step 4:

Look for the Link New Service option.

Step 5:

If it is listed, move to the next step.

Step 6:

Select Spotify from the list of available services and tap on “Enable To Use.”

Step 7:

Doing this will add your accounts to your device and click on “Link to Alexa”.

Step 8:

Scroll down and tap on “Agreed”.

Step 9:

Doing this will successfully link your Spotify account.

Step 10:

Soon after, you will see an option that says, “Choose a default music service.”

Step 11:

Visit music settings to see that Spotify has been chosen as a default music player. You can change it to Spotify as a Default Music player.

Step 12:

After doing this, you are good to go.

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Why Is Alexa Not Playing Spotify?

There are a few key reasons why Alexa may not play Spotify, and those are:

Internet Connection Issues

Compatibility Issues
Software Updates
Problem With The User’s Spotify Account Settings

Incorrect Alexa Settings
Device Related Issues

Is It Possible To Connect Multiple Spotify Accounts To Alexa?

It is possible to connect multiple Spotify accounts to Alexa-enabled devices by using separate Amazon accounts, but there are certain limitations, too.

To do so, you must first link your Spotify account and authorize Alexa to access it.

After you have linked Spotify to Alexa, you can assign specific devices to play music from that account.

Linking multiple Spotify accounts to different Alexa devices will make it easier for each household member to access their personalized music libraries. However, if you want to change the playback source, you must switch accounts manually.