How to Connect Amazon Dot to Spotify

Amazon Echo Dot gen 3 smart speaker along with its AC wall adapter.

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

- 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.

iOS 11 home screen, showing the Amazon Alexa app Icon highlighted.

The app Home screen then appears, as shown next.

Amazon Alexa app Home screen on iOS, with the main menu button highlighted. How to connect Amazon Dot to Spotify.

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.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, showing its main menu, with the -Settings- option highlighted.

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.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, displaying its Settings screen, with the Music option highlighted.

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.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, showing its -Music Settings- list, with the Spotify Link Account option highlighted.

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.

Alexa app on iOS, displaying its Spotify Login Prompt screen. How to connect Amazon Dot to Spotify.

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.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, showing the Spotify login screen while entering the Spotify account password.

Fill out the Spotify user Id and password fields, and then go on to the next step.

Alexa app on iOS, showing the Spotify login prompt form, completely filled out.

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.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, showing its Spotify Terms of Use Agreement prompt page.

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.

Alexa app on iOS, showing the Spotify Connection Succeeded screen, with the Close button highlighted.

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.

Alexa app on iOS, showing a Spotify Usage Tips screen, with its Back button highlighted.

The app then takes you back to the Settings screen.

Amazon Alexa app on iOS, showing its 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.