Google Home app on iOS, displaying its -Link Your Spotify Account- confirmation window.
If you’re a Spotify streaming service subscription holder, you can now listen to your playlists and request songs from the Spotify library to play on your Google Home Mini smart speaker. But the Mini will not play Spotify recordings until you set it up with a (free, at least) Spotify account. Indeed, with a few simple setup steps, you’ll gain full access via voice commands to your Spotify content through your Mini speaker. So in this piece, we show how to set up Spotify on your Google Home Mini speaker.
Before you can access any of the services offered by the Google smart assistant service, you’ll need to connect it to the internet, and then register it with Google via the Google Home app.
If you do not have one already, head on over to the Spotify web site here, and follow their screen prompts to establish a Spotify account. Make sure to take advantage of any free trial offers that may be in play.
On our iPad, the Google Home app is found on page three of the home pages.
The app then runs and displays its home screen, as shown next.
Tap the hamburger item, located in the top left corner of the home screen displayed above (the three stacked horizontal lines), pointed at by the purple arrow. The main menu then displays, as shown next.
You then get the Music Service Choices screen, as shown next. In our scenario here, the Spotify service, not yet linked, is shown under the More Music Services heading, as pointed at by the purple arrow.
When a music service is not yet linked to Google Home, a link symbol appears on the far right side of the screen, rather than a radio button, as illustrated in the next picture.
Find this, pointed at in the last picture by the purple arrow. This brings up the Link your Spotify Account window, as displayed next.
The LINK ACCOUNT item is pointed at by the purple arrow in the last picture. This brings up the Connect Google to your Spotify account screen, as shown next.
If you followed all the steps above, then you now have a Spotify account. So, no need to sign up for a new one here. Therefore, choose this option that allows you to sign in with credentials from an existing account. Then, you get the Spotify Login screen, as shown next.
Once entered, tap the LOG IN button. The Spotify Account Confirmation screen then displays, which shows the name on the account to which you just logged in, and gives you the choice to either confirm or cancel (back out of) linking this particular account to your Google Home devices.
Then, if all goes well, Google Home returns you to the Music Service Choices screen, as shown next. This time when viewing that screen, note that the Spotify entry no longer has the LINK option at the far right, but instead, displays an UNLINK link. This indicates that you’ve successfully linked your Spotify account to Google Home Mini.
Note that Google Home app has also set Spotify as the default music service provider. However, you need not leave Spotify as the default. But if you do, you may shorten your voice requests for Spotify content as described below.
You may now speak commands to your speaker to play music, comedy, or any other recording in the Spotify library. Just ask, as in
Or, if you have made Spotify your default music service as discussed above, you can omit the ‘…on Spotify’ part on the request. E.g.
You will now be able to ask your Google Home Mini speaker to play any of the tens of millions of recordings in the Spotify library. The range of instantly accessible genres, artists, old songs, and new songs, is truly impressive. You may even be able to sell of your popular music CDs and tapes, for space savings, since most anything you may wish to play, Spotify will likely either already have, or will get in short order. Now, you know how to set up Spotify on the Google Home Mini.
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