How to Connect Spotify to Alexa – Step-by-Step Guide (2025)

How excited would you be to experience music truly hands-free, without any manual interaction? Great news! You can do just that by connecting Spotify to Alexa. But first, you need to learn how to connect Spotify to Alexa! After connecting Spotify, a popular music streaming app, with Alexa, a renowned Amazon virtual assistant, you can get an immersive and convenient listening experience because both are designed to work together. Let’s explain its further benefits and step-by-step instructions to play Spotify with Alexa:

Benefits of Connecting Spotify to Alexa

1. Instead of typing you can explore your favourite music or podcast by voice commands. You can speak in your regional language, and your preferred content will appear at the top.

1. You can also access multiple playlists and your music library by using the voice command feature.

1. You don’t need any manual interaction to play the next song because the autoplay feature will automatically start the next song in the playlist after finishing the previous one. ( If you want to change or clear queues of Spotify playlists to enjoy new types of songs instead of repeating the same songs through autoplay, you must visit our page “How to Clear Queue on Spotify”.

1. You can personalize your music experience after linking Spotify to Alexa due to its series of fantastic features.

How to Connect Spotify to Alexa – Simple Steps

Many people were sending queries on how to connect Alexa and Spotify, so I shared my personally tested method in simple steps. Follow the following steps to link Spotify to Amazon Echo Alexa:

1. Install the Alexa App from the Google Play Store ( Android user) or App Store (iPhone user), open it on your smartphone, and create an account by following the on-screen instructions.
2. You’ll find a three-line icon at the bottom right corner of the Alexa screen, so tap on it.
3. Find the “Settings” option on the next screen and click on it.
4. Then select “Music and podcasts”, and a new menu screen will open.
5. Next, you can see all the available services that you can connect to Alexa.
6. Now you can choose Spotify, but if you don’t find it here, you’ve to tap “Link New Service”, and more available options will appear for you from which you can choose “Spotify”.
7. Select Spotify and then “Enable to use”. Your smartphone screen will go into some changes, and then a pop-up will appear where you need to press “Link to Alexa”.
8. Next, scroll down, click on “Agree”, and then tap on “Close”.
9. After that, hit “Visit Music Settings” and tap “Change” to change the default music player to Spotify.
10. All is done, and now you can play Spotify music on Alexa with full personalization. You can also connect Spotify X with Alexa using the same method.

How to Set Spotify as Default Player on Alexa?

1. Launch the Alexa App, navigate to the line icon at the bottom right, and then press “Settings.”

1. After that, tap on “Music & Podcasts” and click on “Default Services”.

1. Now you can set Spotify as your default music service on Alexa and enjoy its autoplay feature for seamless music streaming.

How to Play Spotify Music on Alexa?

After connecting Spotify or Spotify Premium APK to Alexa you can use voice commands in Alexa to play your favourite songs, podcasts, or playlists. You’ll use the following types of prompts to play music or shuffle artists:

• Alexa, play [song name] on Spotify.
• Alexa, shuffle music by [artist name].

Moreover, you can create permanent voice commands for your frequently played music, podcasts, playlists, or artists. Just go to three line icons at the bottom right > settings > music and podcasts, and then “Create Voice Commands”.

Conclusion

I hope that after knowing the benefits of linking Alexa and Spotify, you’ll try to connect them, and our guide on how to connect Spotify to Alexa will be a valuable helping hand for you. But if you find any difficulty in adding Spotify to Alexa then check your internet connection, make sure that both Spotify and Alexa are updated as well as check if the subscription is active on Spotify. This is a paid feature, and you need a premium subscription to Spotify to enjoy its personalized music experience on Alexa.