[Alexa] Multiple Spotify Accounts for Amazon Echo

[rskyles]

My wife and I have our own Spotify accounts. On Amazon Echo, you can create your own profile.  It would be great to link your own Spotify account to your own Amazon Echo account.

Thanks!

[offbeatmammal]

@__spo__ ... any idea when we'll be able to do this? I have four Alexas and was going to update to a family account so me and my daughter don't keep arguing over who gets to play Spotify ... if I can't assign a Spotify "family" member to a device (either all on the same Amazon account as ours are, or on different accounts) there's no much point in upgrading...

[antores]

Yes, This is ridiculous. The only condition to connect a Spotify device to an Amazon device should be the devices to be on the same network. 

Now, Amazon devices can be reached only from Premium Accounts. I wonder if that restriction is from Amazon to prevent free Spotify accounts to compete with Amazon Music, or from Spotify to encourage Premium Accounts. If this restriction is from Spotify then this should be fixed asap. 

[offbeatmammal]

As this only really applies to Premium (there's no free family is there?),
not letting two different users on a family plan listen on two different
Echo devices is ... broken.

Ideal scenario would be that with the five users my daughter has one
assigned to her Echo and logged in on her phone/PC so she can pick a
device, I have the same for the Echo in my home office and we assign
another account to the living room and kitchen echos (and have it so they
can play the same in sync like Sonos)...

[sibbl]

Whoever made this decision to only allow the primary Alexa account to listen to Spotify, never thought about people using family accounts and that people want to listen to Spotify while one family member is at home and one is on the go.

It's not only a bad user experience, but destroying the whole Spotify experience as I daily listen to Spotify over my gf's Spotify account on the Echo, and her "discover weekly" podcast is not what she wants...

[ApePlanet]

Yes please! We have a family plan, and it’s still annoying. We also have multiple Echo devices and I can’t listen to something downstairs when my daughter is listening upstairs. It would be nice to have the ability to switch accounts.

[blitzvergnugen]

I just had to cancel my family plan and resignup with my wife as the adminstrator to get around this. Talk about annoying.

[Gzlatin]

Ditto. Family Spotify account is pretty much useless without this feature. Especially if you have two kids with two echos who both want to listen to music. 

[Hart18]

We have a family account. It is in the name of a family member not registered to our Alexa devices. However, the other family member in the family plan is the registrant for each of the devices. When selecting the Spotfy app to link with Alexa, I keep getting the notice that I must upgrade to premium. I'm already paying for premium family plan. How is this resolved?  Thanks.

[Anthonydi]

Hi all,

not it sure if this was already tried.

just signed up with Spotify premium family account and had this same problem, however found what seems to solve the issues.

just say Alexa connect Spotify.

then open Spotify on your app and it will appear as a device and it will control it as you’d expect.

the echo device seems to be remembered after this so you can freely connect between everyone’s Spotify app until your device disconnects from the local WiFi then it forgets it and only the currently linked Spotify account can remote it via 3G/4g connection.

To re-link just say the above again and link your app again.

seems to work really well!

regards,

Anthony

[Fatwhitey]

Not sure i understand. Are you saying your solution is to play spotify
through a device like a phone? That isnt what I'm after.