[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!

[Fatwhitey]

Hey JasonReynolds
I tried using multiple amazon accounts and it wouldnt work because Alexa
only supported the primary Spotify account regardless of which amazon
account was active, not the other 5 family spotify accounts. Wondering how
you did it.

[tobin]

Really need this, hope it comes soon!

[wmilner]

did you get an answer?  we have same issue

[tompayne]

I am still living with one Spotify account slot dedicated to a shared
"Alexa" account. Not ideal, because any time we need to get more specific
than Alexa voice commands can handle (ie, which specific version of
"Tosca") someone needs to log out of their Spotify account and then into
the Alexa account. Then you forget to switch back. Quite
annoying...especially given how difficult it can be to get specific with
voice commands.

[coffeencoke]

The only work around I've found is to say "Alexa, open Spotify Connect", and then play Spotify from my phone or computer on the echo device. 

This is a disappointing limitation, and I hope Spotify will allow my family to use their own account like a first class citizen. 

[liammcmurray]

Really want this!

[adrizen]

Has this been fixed. My spouse and I both have Spotify Premium accounts for the family. However, we wind up battling for music when she uses her Echo Dot and I use SPotify on my computer.

[thecoldvein-us]

Idk if that's the same issue (unless yr trying to use the same account). The issue in this thread, at least as I understand is that only the primary Alexa user has access to his/her Spotify account w/o the use of a phone or other external controller.

The amount of time this has been an issue w/ zero response makes it pretty obvious they don't plan on addressing it, though.

[JasonReynolds]

Here's how I manage it.

Person1, Person2 and Person3. Each person has their own Amazon account and Spotify account.
Echo1, Echo2, Echo3

Set up Person1 as primary user of Echo1, Person2 primary user of Echo2 and Person3 primary user of Echo3.

On Echo1 link Person1's Spotify account to it.
On Echo2 link Person2's Spotify account to it
On Echo3 link Person3's Spotify account to it.

Person1, 2 and 3 all follow each other on Spotify and share all playlists.

Anybody can then play any playlist on any Echo and also by default, Spotify is active on all 3 Echos simultaneously.

The huge overhead is that the 3 Echos are not synchronised and each have to be manually configured with Skills etc.

Also, Person 1 and Person2 have Amazon household sharing enabled so on Echo 1 and Echo2 accounts can be switched so at least on a couple of Echos we get synchronisation but always have to switch to the Primary user's account to use Spotify.

Cumbersome to set up and manage and certainly doesn't paint a pretty picture of hassle free voice activated home automation!

COME ON AMAZON or SPOTIFY or whoever the **bleep** can fix this!!

[aaronbarker]

The hack we ended up doing was using one of our open spotify preimium accounts to create a central "family" account. We made that the primary spotify account with Alexa and then can share our playlists with that central account to get access to individual stuff.  It is also nice to have that family account essentialy only used on with Alexa so we don't get kicked off of other devices (work, mobile). Works fine for our limited use so far.