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Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

unwell-unmet-unknown — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:08:42 GMT

Hello, I am looking for some tips. Here is my set up:

Child A has a google voice device in their room
Child B has a google voice device in their room
Child A & B are both in my Google family group
Parent A (Me) setup a spotify account, assigning Child A & B each a spotify account within the family plan
I linked Child A & Child B to their respective spotify accounts in Google Family
When either Child A or Child B say 'Who am i" to their google speaker, the speaker responds correctly.

The problem:

1. When Child A plays music from google assistant, it plays from Parent A (me) spotify account. When Child B plays music from google assistant, it plays from Parent A spotify account. When Parent A plays music from his phone, it plays from Parent A spotify account.

Spotify only allows one listener at a time, so we are forever kicking each other out.

The question:
1. Does anyone have a solution for the above? Google assistant is the only way my children listen to music. They don't have phones or other smart devices.

2. If there is no solution, is there some other music service that might work better? From my point of view, the various streaming music services are all the same, so I'm happy to jump ship if that will allow us to listen to music.

Thanks!

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

unwell-unmet-unknown — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:09:37 GMT

I've come up with the following workaround:

- Setup a new google account for Child A's speaker, called 'ChildASpeaker at gmail' or something like that

- Add this new account to my google family

- Add this new account to my google home

- Factory reset google assistant device

- Go to google home with this new account. Link into Child A's existing spotify account during setup

This workaround isn't perfect, but good enough.

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

MihailY — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:41:05 GMT

Hey @unwell-unmet-unknown,

Thanks for reaching out.

It's currently not possible to connect multiple Spotify accounts to a single Google account, however your solution works around this nicely and is something that we also usually offer to other users dealing with the same situation. Kudos for figuring it out on your own!

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Cannot play concurrent streams under family plan

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:39:21 GMT

I have a family plan with multiple device and multiple users. We use Google assistant to voice call music and cannot play concurrent streams of music to different devices without one interrupting the other. How can we fix this? Thanks.

Re: Cannot play concurrent streams under family plan

unwell-unmet-unknown — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 14:21:12 GMT

The workaround above will work.

You need to have one google account for each spotify user. Then, you need to set the google assistant to link the spotify user to the google account. If some of the users are under 18, you will need to make a new google account just for that speaker, and the google account must be set for 18+. You'll have to rely on the spotify parent controls.

Make sure to set the google account to an adult account.

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

Cluffster — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:36:52 GMT

I'm a new Spotify Family Plan subscriber, and I'm not impressed. I switched over from YouTube Premium, because my kids said they like Spotify better than YouTube Music, but Spotify's integration with Google Home and Alexa devices is atrocious. If I supposedly have 6 account I can have on my plan, why can I only listen to one thing at a time on my various smart speakers? With YouTube Premium, I could play one playlist on my bedroom speaker, and another playlist in my family room, and yet another on my phone. Now, if I start playing something on any one of those devices, it stops whatever was playing on the other device. There doesn't seem to be any way around this limitation. I'm going to cancel my subscription and go back to YouTube Premium. It's more expensive, but at least it works on more than once device at a time (just not on Alexa devices).

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

unhappy_user900 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:04:35 GMT

I have this issue. Come on Spotify, you and google have the resource to resolve this please.

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

CountingTime — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:16:18 GMT

Seriously, I can't figure out if there are only 50 of us that use Spotify and Google Home/Speakers, but why hasn't a solution come up for this yet? I've been trying to figure this out for years and watching/waiting for a legit solution.

Re: Google Assistant & Spotify Family Plan

jwllwj — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:58:03 GMT

My problem is for common speakers, for example, the bathroom. I would like different children using it at different times to be able to call up their own Spotify family account. I did actually manage to set this up before when somehow could not replicate it again after I moved house and set up a new Google Home account