Google Home Mini smart speaker, showing original packaging, front view.
Through the Google Home Mini, you can control your music listening on Spotify using this voice commands list ! Ask Google Home Mini to play a song, an album, a public playlist or one of your own private playlists. Google Home Mini works quite well with Spotify, giving you access to all your specific Spotify account content, just by asking.
For this list of Google Home Mini Spotify commands to work, you first must link your Google account to your Spotify Premium account.
Whether playing albums, songs, playlists, or genres, you can control playback with the following Google Home Mini Spotify commands.
Got a favorite artist or group? Ask Google Home to play all the songs by that artist that Spotify has, as in the following examples. Here, the following Google Home Mini Spotify commands all result in the speaker playing songs by the Steve Miller Band.
If the artist name you’re requesting is also a popular title of a song (the group name Middle of the Road for example, is also the title of a popular 1984 song by the Pretenders), then the Mini may again, play the wrong song. To get rid of this confusion, just add the “songs by” phrase to the Google Home Mini spotify commands, as in the next examples.
If you’ve made personal playlists in your Spotify account, or if you just want to play the public playlists already there (such as the Spotify Teen Party playlist), you can ask to play them with the following Google Home Mini Spotify commands. You just need to know the name of the playlist you want.
Just ask for the genre you wish, and Mini will play a bunch of songs from that genre. No telling what you’ll get though, unless you’ve already tried this once so that you know what’s coming. Also, what you’ll hear will change from play to play, as they add new music.
Got a favorite song by a certain artist? Ask the Mini to play that song with the following Google Home Mini Spotify commands. The requests below all play the song Fly Like an Eagle, by the Steve Miller Band.
You may omit the artist name from the request, if no other song title, artist name, or playlist has the same name. But you must add the artist qualifier if there are more than one items in Spotify with the same name. If you don’t, you may get the wrong song. In the Fly Like an Eagle scenario though, she does play the Steve Miller version, even though versions from other artists such as Seal are also on Spotify.
You can request a specific album by a specific artist from Spotify, as shown in the examples next. The requested album then plays, in the correct order, from beginning to end.
You may also omit artist / group names for albums with unique names. But to ensure that you hear what you wanted, we always request the album along with the artist, since many albums in Spotify have the same names these days, and since we almost always get the wrong version of the song when we don’t.
But you may hear a short silence (inter-song gaps) in those albums that feature one long continuous recording, that’s subdivided into tracks for easier navigation (such as live albums or certain studio recordings like Pink Floyd’s The Wall album). Now the Alexa speakers on the other hand, provide truly gapless playback of these albums. So check those out if you really need gapless album playback on Spotify.
Finally, asking for track numbers within the album does not yet work.
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