Here, we describe how to connect Amazon Dot to Spotify for your Echo smart speakers. After you complete the Spotify connection, you can listen to your Spotify playlists and collections. Play these on any of your Amazon Dot speakers.
How to Connect Amazon Dot to Spotify
You’ll Need the Following First
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- First, set up an Amazon account at amazon.com . Follow the instructions on that site to do so.
- You also must have a premium Spotify account. Set that up at spotify.com . Again, like Amazon, the Spotify site guides you through new account creation.
- Finally, download and install the Alexa app on a phone or tablet computer. Then log into it with your Amazon credentials. You’ll then use the Alexa app to associate your Amazon account with your Spotify account. The app is available in the Google Play and Apple App store.
- And of course, you need at least one Amazon Dot speaker to play your Spotify stuff on.
How to Connect Spotify Account to your Amazon Account
We’re connecting Spotify to Amazon Dot using our iPad Air tablet as follows.
1. Bring up the Alexa App
Run the Alexa app on your mobile device. First, search out the Alexa app on your mobile device, as shown next.
The app Home screen then appears, as shown next.
2. Tap the Main Menu (Hamburger) Control
Find the hamburger button in the top left corner of the page.
Then, the Alexa main menu appears in the left side of the screen, as shown in the next picture.
3. Tap the Settings Option on the Main Menu
We’ve highlighted this option with the green arrow in the last picture.
The Settings page then appears, as shown in the next picture.
4. Tap the Music Item on the Settings Page to Continue with How to Connect Amazon Dot to Spotify
The app then displays the Music Settings screen as shown next.
5. Tap the Link Account on Spotify.com Option
Find this item on the Music Settings page. See this near the top right edge of the screen, pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.
The Alexa app then prompts you to enter your Spotify user Id and password.
6. Next, Enter your Spotify Account Logon Credentials
These include your user name (an email address you gave back when you first set up your Spotify account). And of course, your Spotify password.
Note that you can manually enter your Spotify login info. Or choose the Log In with Facebook option if you have your Facebook account set up on your mobile device. But due to our own security concerns. we chose to enter our Spotify account credentials directly.
Fill out the Spotify user Id and password fields, and then go on to the next step.
7. Then, Tap the Green Log In Button
Find this on the last pictured screen face above.
The system then prompts you to agree to the terms under which Amazon will use your Spotify account.
8. Press the Green OKAY Button to Continue with How to Connect Amazon Dot to Spotify
Find the OKAY button at the Connect Alexa to your Spotify account prompt, as shown in the last picture.
The Alexa app advises that your Spotify account now has a connection with your Amazon account.
9. Tap the X (Close Button)
Find the X button in the top right corner of the page.
The Alexa app then shows a tips for Spotify usage on Alexa screen, as pictured next.
Read through this, and then press the Back button, found in the top left corner of the page.
The app then takes you back to the Settings screen.
Your Amazon and Spotify Accounts Now Connect Together
So you can now access content in your Spotify account, on any Amazon Dot you have on your Amazon account. Thus you may exit the Alexa app if you so desire.
See our Amazon Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo Smart Speakers for a list of voice commands. These let you play Spotify on Amazon Dot speakers. Play albums, podcasts, individual songs, and playlists.