Does Alexa Support Spotify Free

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Amazon Echo and other Alexa-powered devices can now play audio content from Spotify for free. The streaming service announced this week that a subscription is no longer necessary to access its library of music and other audio content through Alexa.

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Echo Exclusive, £3.99/Free: You can get a cheaper price if you ask an Amazon Echo: 'Alexa, try Amazon Music Unlimited'. Users can also play ad-supported playlists for free on Echo speakers. If you want to force it to find the new playlist immediately, try unlinking your Spotify in the Alexa app and then re-linking it (as described above). This should refresh the list of available playlists. If you’ve got any further tips for getting Alexa to play the correct Spotify playlist, feel free to share them on comments below. Subscribe to access expert insight on business technology - in an ad-free environment. The tablet also does not support Alexa commands for Spotify, which is disappointing. Limitations Of The Free Spotify On Alexa. As I mentioned before, with a free Spotify account, you cannot do all the things that you can if you have a Premium account. Let’s see what those limitations are. With this approach, you can only control that Alexa with your voice and not through the Spotify app which basically means 'no, Spotify does not support normal user scenarios on Alexa but we have an ugly workaround'. RAbishop - Thanks for confirming that Apple Music works as expected. Might be time to ditch Spotify.

Before this update, only Spotify users who paid the monthly subscription fee could stream on Sonos, Bose, and Amazon devices that use Alexa as a voice assistant. The free version was limited to a shortlist of smart speakers using Google Assistant, including Google’s own stable of Nest smart speakers. Despite Apple recently making it easier to play Spotify music through Siri, the Apple Homepod is still not on the list, although it can stream Spotify music via a smartphone.

Spotify’s free streaming service is supported by intermittent ads and lacks features like being able to save music to play offline and skipping an unlimited number of songs in a playlist, but it is still enormously popular, as Spotify has 217 million monthly users and around 100 million paying subscribers. The free version of Spotify is only available to the new devices in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States at the moment.

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The support for Alexa devices comes hot on the heels of SiriusXM adding an archive of more than 10,000 hours of its shows to Alexa users this week. The update also includes personalized music stations through Pandora and the ability to sync across Alexa-powered devices. It’s almost the inverse of the Spotify news, as the extra SiriusXM features are limited to subscribers. The competition between voice assistants is running almost in parallel to one among audio streaming services. Google Assistant integrated SiriusXM into Google Nest devices just last month, and both voice assistants have been added to a rapidly growing array of devices built by both parent companies and partner brands like Bose and Sonos.

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Google and Amazon are both keen to get more people to build smart homes around their respective voice assistants. Google has been adding a variety of new smart home devices to its lineup, including the Nest Wifi, a router with Google Assistant built-in. Amazon too has been pumping out a lot of new Alexa-powered devices as it angles for dominance in the industry. Supporting the free version of Spotify eliminates one more reason people might buy a Nest Home over an Echo. The choices people make early on when deciding on a smart speaker can influence their choices in similar products for years afterward, so it makes sense that Alexa wants to fill in any gaps in its services compared to Google Assistant should any of the millions of Spotify’s free services make their decision based on its availability.