Through the Google Home speaker, you can control your music listening on Spotify with voice commands! Ask Google Home to play a song, and album, or a public playlist or one of your own private playlists. Google home works quite well with Spotify, giving you access to all your specific Spotify account content, just by asking. So below, we include our Google Home Spotify Commands List for all these functions.
To play Spotify music on your Google Home, link your Google account to your Spotify Premium account. See our post Spotify Setup on Google Home Speaker Instructions for details on how to do that. You must also connect your speaker to the internet via WiFi.
Whether playing albums, songs, playlists, or genres, you can control playback with the Google Home Spotify commands that follow.
Got a favorite song by a specific artist? Ask your Google Home Speaker to play that song from Spotify as in the following examples. The requests below play Fly Like an Eagle in Spotify, by the Steve Miller Band.
You may omit the artist name if no other song title, artist name, or playlist has that name. But you must add the artist qualifier if more than one item in Spotify has that name. Otherwise, Google Home may play the wrong song. In the Fly Like an Eagle case though, she does play the Steve Miller version. You get Steve Miller even though versions from other artists such as Seal are there also.
You can request a certain album by a specific artist from Spotify, as follows. All tracks on that album then play, in the right order, from start to end.
You may also omit artist / group names for albums with unique names in Spotify. But to ensure that you hear what you wanted, state the album first, and then the artist. Why? Because many albums in the Spotify library have the same names as their artists.
But you may hear a short silence (inter-song gaps) in those albums with one long recording. They often subdivide these albums into tracks. This makes finding certain songs in that recording easier. E.g. Live albums or certain studio recordings like Pink Floyd’s The Wall album do this.
Asking for track numbers within the album does not yet work.
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 requests all result in the speaker playing the songs in Spotify by the Steve Miller Band.
The artist name you want could also be a song title. E.g. The group name Middle of the Road is also the title of a 1984 song by the Pretenders. So in this case, the smart speaker may again play the wrong song. To stop the confusion, just add the “songs by” phrase to the request, as follows.
Now perhaps you’ve created personal playlists in your Spotify account. Or you just want to play the public Spotify playlists already out there. E.g. Like the Spotify Teen Party playlist). Then to do that, ask Google Home to play them as follows. Just find the name of the playlist to play. Then ask her to play that playlist.
Just ask for the genre you wish. Then Google Home will play a bunch of songs from that genre from the Spotify albums that fit that genre.
No telling what you’ll get though. Unless that is, you’ve already tried this once so that you know what’s coming. Also, what you’ll hear will often change, as they add and tag new music on Spotify.
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