Use voice commands to control music and podcasts with Amazon Alexa!
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need. Listening is everything - Spotify. Not only does it mostly not get the show your searching for but you also have to scroll past all the music first to get to podcasts hidden at the bottom of the list. I'm not very happy as I use Spotify for all things audio. Podcasts are as important to me as the music collection I have collected over the years. — For What Happens at the Intersection of Pop Culture and Politics. We don't have any change log information yet for version 1.1.45.621 of Spotify. Sometimes publishers take a little while to make this information available, so please check back in a few days to see if it has been updated. Spotify has offered the option to listen to podcasts for some while, but until now I’ve preferred to use a dedicated podcasts app. Sadly, my preferred choice – Podcast Republic – has become increasingly erratic of late, prompting me to give Spotify another go. Here, after a couple of weeks of using Spotify for podcasts, is why I’d consider sticking with it – and the things that it.
Get started
Download the Alexa app, open it, and link your Spotify account with these steps: https://yellowbill768.weebly.com/blog/spotify-premium-no-root-apk.
- Tap the menu in the top-left.
- Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
- Select Spotify, then Link account to Alexa.
- Enter your Spotify account details.
Set Spotify as your default service for music and podcasts so you don’t need to specify “on Spotify” at the end of your voice commands to play music:
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- Tap the menu in the top-left.
- Tap Settings, then Music & Podcasts.
- Tap Choose default music services.
Note: To set Spotify as your default podcast service, tap Choose default podcast service. - Select Spotify and tap DONE.
Note: You still need to say “on Spotify” at the end of commands to play podcasts.
Now just ask Alexa to play something! E.g. https://yellowbill768.weebly.com/blog/free-spotify-usernames. 'Alexa, play Discover Weekly'. Check out the Amazon help site for supported languages.
Supported devices
Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Spot, Amazon Echo Show, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV Cube, and all Sonos players.
Need help?
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For help setting up and troubleshooting, go to the Amazon help site.
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Check out other articles on our support site for help with your Spotify account and payments, listening offline, or if you can’t play music.