Google Home app on iOS, displaying the -Link Spotify Prompt- 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. Here, we demo how to Link Spotify to Google Home Mini, with step by step instructions with lots of screenshots.
However, Google Home will not play Spotify recordings until you link 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 speaker. And, if you’re new to Spotify, you’ll currently receive a one-month free trial, which grants you full access to their recordings, allowing you to fully test Google Home with Spotify before paying for the premium Spotify music subscription.
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. See our piece here for details on how to perform these tasks.
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, we find the Google Home app on page three of the Home pages.
The app then runs and displays its Home screen, as shown next.
Note that the following screenshots came from the Google Home app running on iOS.
Tap the hamburger item, located in the top left corner of the home screen displayed above (the three stacked horizontal lines). The main menu then displays, as shown next.
You then get the Music Service Choices screen, as shown next.
Doing so brings up the Link your Spotify Account window, as displayed next.
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 underneath, but instead, displays an UNLINK link. This indicates that you’ve successfully linked your Spotify account to Google Home.
Note that Google Home 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 speaker device to play any of the millions of recordings in the Spotify library. Love all that music! The range of genres, artists, old songs, and new songs, is truly moving. You may even be able to sell of your popular music collection for space savings, since most anything you may wish to play, Spotify will likely either already have, or will get in short order.
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