Two Best Ways to Play Spotify on Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo as a smart speaker designed by Amazon, it can be waked by user's voice-control with "Echo", "Alexa" or "Computer". This device has many convenient functions such as voice interaction, setting alarms, playing audiobooks, providing traffic, weather, other real-time info, streaming podcasts, music playback, etc.

When it comes to talking about music playing features, Amazon Echo offers the Amazon's Prime Music as the default streaming music service for any tracks you want to play. But if you have subscribed Spotify service, can you stream Spotify music to Amazon Echo? Absolutely, the following post provides two popular methods to help you play Spotify on Amazon Echo easily.

Part 1. Connect Spotify to Amazon Echo with Premium Account.

Before starting the formal introduction, you need to notice that this solution is available for Spotify premium subscribers only. If you have owned a Spotify free account, you can refer to the second solution in part 2. To listen to Spotify on Amazon Echo, please connect your Spotify account to your Amazon Echo at first, then you can follow these steps as below:

Step1. Launching Amazon Echo app on your mobile phone or tablet, then touch the menu button at the upper-left corner of the main interface, then select “Settings”.

Step 2. You will enter the "Settings" window, in which you can see a list showing "Alexa Devices" and "Account". In the "Account" list, tap on Music & Media option.

Step 3. It will pop-up a new window shows a list including many music services, just choose Spotify. Then you can log in with your Spotify premium account or sign up a new account.

Step 4. After sig in Spotify account successfully, at now, you're able to command Echo to play Spotify tracks via voice-control, like: "Alexa, Play (song name/artist name/playlist name) on Spotify." Then the corresponding tracks will be played on the speakers automatically. 

Part 2. Play Spotify on Amazon Echo without premium

Although the first method is very easy for users, as we have mentioned above. It suitable for Spotify premium users only. Unfortunately, if you just have a free account, how to play Spotify on Echo? Don't worry, in this section, we provide the best way to free Spotify users to connect Spotify to Amazon Echo.

It's well known that only Spotify paid users are allowed to download Spotify tracks or playlists for offline playback. Besides, all the Spotify tunes are encoded by DRM, which restrict customers playing Spotify on authorized devices only. Therefore, if you can download Spotify albums or playlists and remove DRM protection from Spotify, then you can stream Spotify to Amazon Echo easily. AudFree Spotify Music Converter is a professional program to do these works. It supports to download Spotify tracks/albums/playlists in batch and convert them to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A, M4B. In the download process, AudFree will unlock DRM restriction with 100% keeping original audio quality.

Tutorial to Transfer Spotify on Amazon Echo via Amazon Music

Now, let's see how to play Spotify music on Echo for Spotify free.

Step 1. Add Tracks or playlists from Spotify to AudFree

After opened AudFree Spotify Music Converter, then Spotify app will be loaded automatically. Then you can drag and drop songs from Spotify to AudFree or copy the URL of Spotify playlist and paste it in AudFree search direction and click the "+" button to import songs to AudFree.

Step 2. Adjust Output Formats

Tap on Menu>Preferences, then it will open a new window on your screen, touch the "convert" button where you can customize output format as MP3(default), WAV, AAC, FLAC. etc. Otherwise, you also can set the channel, sample rate, bit rate and other parameters according to your demands.

Step 3. Strat Downloading

Once all settings are done, please click the "Convert" button at the right-bottom corner, then all the imported songs will be downloaded and converted to the target format you have set before. When this process finished, you can find the DRM-free music in history folder on your computer.

Step 4. Upload DRM-free Spotify Music to Amazon

Now, you need to install Amazon music application on your PC and follow these 3 steps to upload.

Step 1. Find converted Spotify music files on your computer and drag & drop them into the upload selection in the right sidebar of Amazon Music.

Step 2. Touch the second "Upload" button to browse your files folders and choose them.

Step 3. Move to the top of the main interface and click the My Music>Songs>Offline to upload offline music to Amazon.