Use Spotify App With Alexa

“Hello, can you connect Spotify to Alexa? I would like to listen to Spotify music over the newly purchased Amazon Alexa speaker but have no idea how to add Spotify to Alexa. Someone suggested me that I need to upgrade to Spotify Premium before I could play Spotify on Alexa speakers. It would cost me a lot per month. So, is there any other way to help me connect Spotify to Alexa speaker without paying every month? How to play Spotify on Alexa without Spotify Premium? Please show me an effective solution. Any advice would be highly appreciated.”

Use Alexa to play your favorite tracks in the Spotify app with your voice. You’ll also notice an enhanced music landing page to help you discover your new favorite song. Finally, we’ve moved the Click-to-Talk button to the top left of the screen and the Wake Word button to the top right of the screen to help improve your experience. Spotify on Alexa. Voice control your tunes with Amazon Alexa. Super easy set-up. Set up your Alexa device using the Amazon Alexa App. Go to Settings, then Music & Media and link your Spotify account. Tap Choose default music services and select Spotify.

Generally known as Alexa simply, Amazon Alexa is virtual assistant smart speaker that is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real-time information, such as news. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system. Users could install “skills” (additional functionality developed by third-party vendors, in other settings more commonly called apps such as weather programs and audio features) to extend the Alexa capabilities.

Playing music over Amazon Alexa music has been a main popular feature for all Amazon Alexa speaker owners. As one of the most popular online music streaming services, Spotify has been widely accepted and poplar in the world. People could now actually to connect Spotify to Amazon Alexa-enabled devices to listen to Spotify music over Amazon Alexa. In the following content, we would like to show you how to connect Spotify to Alexa so as to let you play Spotify music over Alexa enabled devices with and without upgrading to Spotify Premium. Check the detailed guide below and choose the solution that meets you more.

Part 1: How to Connect Spotify to Alexa-Enabled Devices with Spotify Premium

As a popular online digital music, podcast and video streaming service platform, Spotify gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. We all know that Spotify has both Free plan and Premium plan, both of which enable people to:

1. Use the internal Browse and Search features to choose what you want to listen to.

2. Get recommendations from personalized features like Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and Daily Mix.

3. See what friends, artists, and celebrities listen to.

4. Create your own Radio stations and build collections of music.

Use Spotify App With Alexa Playlists

However, with Spotify Free plan, you have to listen to Spotify music with ads, which appear every 3 or 4 songs. That would be quite bothering. If you upgrade to the Spotify Premium plan, you could listen to ads-free Spotify music on any Spotify enabled devices and players as you like. Meanwhile, you could also download Spotify music to no more than 3 devices for offline listening, have unlimited skip during Spotify music playback, enjoy non-stop music without ads, etc. What’s more, the Spotify Premium plan allows you to connect Spotify to many voice speaker devices such as Amazon Alexa.

The below steps would show you how to connect Spotify to Alexa enabled devices with Spotify Premium plan by using Spotify Connect, a Spotify remote control that enables you to listen to Spotify on speakers, TVs, and other devices using the Spotify app.

1. Connect your Alexa enabled device and Spotify app to the same WiFi network. Make sure your apps are all up-to-date.

2. Open Spotify and play something.

Spotify Alexa App

3. Click “Connect to a device” icon (on your computer or web player) or Devices Available (on your phone or tablet) in the bottom-right.

4. Tap the Amazon Alexa enabled device you want to play Spotify music to.

Then, the playing Spotify music would be streamed over your Amazon Alexa enabled device. Try switching off the “Show local devices only” setting if you can’t see your Alexa enabled devices

This method helps you easily play Spotify on Alexa enabled devices, however, you need to upgrade to Spotify Premium for $9.99 per month. That would be a big cost.

Part 2: How to Connect Spotify Music to Alexa Enabled Devices with Spotify Free Plan

Is there any way for you to play Spotify music on Alexa speaker if you are using Spotify Free plan? Of course yes. Leawo Prof. DRM could perform as a professional Spotify DRM removal and Spotify music downloader to help you remove DRM protection upon Spotify songs, and download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV, FLAC files, so you could easily import the downloaded Spotify songs to your Alexa enabled devices for playing Spotify music over Alexa speaker freely, no matter you are using Spotify Free or Spotify Premium plan. It could even allow you to adjust the output MP3 profile parameters like codec, bit rate, sample rate, etc. for high quality Spotify music downloading and converting.

Download and install Leawo Prof. DRM on your computer. The below steps would show you how to download and convert Spotify songs for playing over Alexa.

Note: You need to download and install Spotify app on your computer.

Step 1: Open Leawo Spotify DRM Remover

Launch Leawo Prof. DRM and then click the “Spotify DRM Remover” option on the main interface. Once you open this Spotify DRM Remover, it will automatically help you open the Spotify app.

Step 2: Add Spotify music to Spotify DRM Remover

Then, directly drag and drop Spotify songs one by one or drag and drop the album/playlist at once to Spotify DRM Remover for downloading and converting.

Or, you could click “Add Files” button to add Spotify playlist for downloading. Just copy and paste URL of Spotify playlist or song here and then click “OK” button to download Spotify music playlist or single songs.

Step 2: Set output format and audio quality

Click the pencil icon in each loaded Spotify music title to enter the “Edit” panel to choose output format from MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, etc. in the “Format” box and adjust audio parameters including Channel, Sample Rate, and Bit rate. Click “Apply to All” button afterwards for time saving.

Step 3: Set output directory

Set output directory in the “Output” box to save final downloaded Spotify music files.

Step 4: Start to download and convert Spotify songs

Finally, press the blue button “Convert” at the bottom right. This Spotify DRM Remover would start to download Spotify music and convert Spotify songs to chosen audio file format. The DRM removal happens in the background. Transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to your Alexa enabled devices for unlimited playback after downloading completes.

Leawo Prof. DRM is not only a Spotify DRM Remover, but also a comprehensive DRM removal and converter tool to help you convert iTunes DRM M4V video to DRM-free MP4 video, convert iTunes DRM M4P music to DRM-free MP3 file, convert iTunes/Audible audiobooks to DRM-free audiobooks, and convert eBooks from Kindle, Kobo and Adobe Digital Edition.

Part 3: A Comparison between The Above 2 Solutions

The below content shows you the differences and detailed features of each methods mentioned above.

Part 4: Some Voice Commands of Amazon Alexa

If you're stuck for the best Alexa commands to really start using your Amazon smart speaker to the max, we've got you covered below with some wonderful voice commands of Alexa as extended knowledge. Check them below and experience them yourself.

Your first Alexa commands

'Alexa, play [artist] name.'
'Alexa, set timer for [xx] minutes.'
'Alexa, what's the weather today?'
'Alexa, set an alarm for [time].'
'Alexa, play [radio station].'

Essential Alexa music commands

'Alexa, play [genre]'
'Alexa, play from [music service].'
'Alexa, play the latest [artist name] [album/song]'
'Alexa, play Sunday morning music'
'Alexa, who sings this song?'
'Alexa, pair my phone'
'Alexa, louder'
'Alexa, set volume to 6'
'Alexa, turn this off in [xx minutes].'
For Sonos users with Sonos skill installed: “Alexa, play [song] by [artist] from [service] in the [Sonos device name]”
'Alexa, create a '[xxx xxxx]' playlist.' [change name as appropriate]

Alexa movie/TV commands

“Alexa, what is the IMDb rating for [show/movie]?”
“Alexa, tell me about the movie [whatever it’s called]”
“Alexa, who starrs in [show/movie]?”

Checking calendars and reminders

'Alexa, what's on my schedule?'
'Alexa, add an event on my calendar'
'Alexa, add features meeting to my calendar on Thursday at 4.30'
'Alexa, what am I doing tomorrow?'
'Alexa, add hair cut to my to do list'
'Alexa, what's on my to-do list?'
You could get more voice commands of Amazon Alexa from Amazon communities.

Spotify is always at the top of music streaming music services list over the years because of its large music library, attracting feature on music discovery and beautiful user interface (especially on mobile devices). It also fully supported by most of smart sound devices like Amazon Echo, Sonos, Google Home, SoundTouch, Ruku player, and etc to enhance user’s music experience, for example, users are allowed to play music on Spotify with voice control on Alexa devices.

Yes, it is very convenient to ask Alexa to play certain songs, playlists, artists, or albums on Spotify. The following part will show you the specific steps on how to play your Spotify music on Alexa devices with voice control.

We shall go to show you guys 2 simply ways to play Spotify music on Alexa.

Method 1: Connect Spotify Account to Alexa

Method 2: Connect Spotify to Alexa Devices Directly on App

Extra Tips Download Spotify Music / Playlists without Premium

Method 1: Connect Spotify Account to Alexa

Things You'll Need

• Spotify Premium account
• Alexa speaker capable of playing Spotify, like Amazon Echo
• A phone or tablet with Alexa app installed

Step 1 Connect sound device like Amazon Echo to Amazon Alexa app.

Please download Alexa app from Apple Store or Google Play then register it and connect it to speaker.

Step 2 Link your Spotify account to Alexa

Run Alexa app on your phone or tablet if you have installed, then tap Setting button from the left panel, then tap Music & Media on the right.

Use Spotify App With Alexa Password

A screen will pop up to list all music streaming services supported by Alexa, and you can click 'Link Account on Spotify' from this screen.

Connect Spotify To Alexa App

A new screen 'Connect Alexa to your Spotify Account' will show next as displayed below. Click the green button 'Log in to Spotify' and enter your user name and password of Spotify account. If you have no Spotify account, you can use your Gmail or Facebook to sign up here directly.

Finally, a window will show up displaying 'Your Spotify account has been linked successfully'. Now, you have successfully linked Spotify account to Alexa.

Step 3 Choose Spotify as the Default Music Service

Back to the Music & Media section of the Alexa, and you will see that your Spotify account is linked. Then select Spotify as the default music service.

Step 4 Start Play Spotify Music on Alexa

Now, you can ask Alexa to play specific artists, songs, genres of music, albums or playlists on Spotify. Because you set Spotify as the default music source, it will play music automatically only from Spotify, You can also ask Alexa to raise or lower the volume, skip to the next, repeat songs and get information about the song being played with Alexa music commands.

Method 2: Connect Spotify to Alexa Devices Directly on App

Go to Spotify app to choose the Alexa devices like Amazon Echo to play music. On the bottom screen of the Now Playing, you can press 'Devices Available', and a black screen will be shown to let you choose one from list of all your connected Alexa devices. Just select one you want to play.

Extra Tips: Download Spotify Music / Playlists without Premium

Spotify allows users to listen to music for free without Preminum, and this is a highly appreciated feature compared to other music streaming services, though the free account has many limitations like ads-playback, 192 Kbps in Ogg audio quality, and no offline listening. So if you want to download Spotify music with higher audio quality (320 Kbps in Ogg) for offline listening on your multiple devices, Spotify Premium account ($ 9.99 per month) is needed. But is there any way to download Spotify music or playlist to local files with free account?

Yes, of course. If you have Spotify Free account, you can turn to Sidify Music Converter to help you download Spotify music or playlist to common audio files like MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, then you can transfer these downloaded Spotify music to other portable devices like moble phones, tablets, or MP3 player for offline listening while flying, or import them to other video editor to make it as the background music.

Things You'll Need

• Spotify Free or Premium account
• Latest version of Spotify installed on PC or Mac
• Sidify Music Converter

Step 1 Launch Sidify Music Converter

Step 2 Add Spotify Music or Playlist

Click on icon and then drag and drop any music file or playlist from Spotify music app to Sidify adding window.

Alexa And Spotify

Step 3 Choose the Output Format

Then tap button on the top right corner to customize the output parameters including output format, output quality and conversion mode. You can choose format as MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, and if you want to download music as higher quality, you can choose FLAC as the output format, and adjust the output quality up to 320 kbps.

To help you organize the music library after finishing downloading, Sidify program supports saving the output audio into Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist folder for meeting various user's needs.

Step 4 Start Downloading

Now, you can click 'Convert' button start downloading Spotify music or playlists. After a cup of tea time, you can come back to check the downloaded Spotify music by clicking on 'Converted' button.

The Spotify music or playlists you downloaded with Sidify Music Converter would be saved to your local drive, and you can listen to them offline on multiple devices, or use it for personalized editing on other programs.

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enable us to convert the first 3-minute audio from Spotify for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.

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