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

If you are a Spotify Free plan subscriber, you have to turn to the other 2 solutions introduced below. Alexa offers full control of playback and your music library, an Alexa EQ feature to fine-tune audio, with tons of commands for a more seamless control of your music. Follow the below steps to learn how to connect Amazon Echo to Spotify via. Spotify is the best way to listen to music and podcasts, free with Alexa. Before you start, please make Spotify your default music streaming service so you don't have to say 'on Spotify' every time you ask Alexa for your favourite music. Ask Alexa for any playlist, artist or album. Ask Alexa for our curated playlists made for every genre, mood.

Get started

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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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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.