How to connect Spotify to Alexa or Amazon Echo

(Pocket-lint) - You tin alteration your default euphony work for Alexa, truthful that it'll play from immoderate work you prefer.

That's useful if you don't subscribe to Amazon Music and possibly prefer, say, Spotify. Luckily, changing the default enactment to Spotify is ace easy. It lone requires a fewer taps wrong the Amazon Alexa app. Here's what you request to bash truthful that you tin inquire Alexa to commencement playing tunes and playlists from Spotify, alternatively than from immoderate different service.

First, marque definite your Amazon Echo oregon Alexa instrumentality is already acceptable up. If you request to acceptable it up, cheque retired Pocket-lint's useful guide astir however to bash that. Next, unfastened the Amazon Alexa app, past spell to Music & Media nether Settings, nexus your Spotify relationship (this requires logging with your Spotify credentials), and acceptable it arsenic your default service.

Alexa mobile users

1. Open the Amazon Alexa mobile app.
2. Select More, Settings, past Music & Podcasts.
3. You'll spot the enactment to Link New Services. Select this and motion into Spotify.
4. Once connected, pat connected Default Services.
5. Under Music, take Spotify. You tin besides acceptable Spotify arsenic default for genre stations and podcasts.
6. Once done, your Spotify relationship volition beryllium linked to Alexa and beryllium the default work for music.

Alexa web users

1. Sign into the Alexa web app.
2. Click Music, Video, & Books.
3. Choose Spotify and click Link your account. You’re directed to log successful to Spotify.
4. Enter your login credentials. Your Spotify relationship is present linked to Alexa.
5. Goto Settings and scroll down to Music & Media. 
6. At the bottommost of the Music & Media settings, you tin prime Spotify arsenic your default euphony provider.

What Alexa commands enactment with Spotify?

Here's a fistful of dependable commands that work:

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 6 April 2018.