[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 Jonfitt, what you describe will only work for separate spotify
accounts. If you pay for the family spotify plan then alexa will only let
you stream from the primary spotify account no matter how many amazon
accounts or alexas youre using. Sad!

[Jonfitt]

Not quite. It will actually use the one Spotify account belonging to which ever user registered the Echo. I have a Reddit post about it and also a follow-on limitation that exists:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/6nbc2t/warning_spotifyecho_workaround_has_a_limit_of_tw...

[Fatwhitey]

Jonfitt the problem for me is that we have one single spotify family
account with a total of 6 users. Only the primary spotify account will ever
play on an alexa. Im not willing to pay for multiple spotify memberships
when amazon should support as many as I want (if they want me to keep
buying dots all over my house)
I also have 2 google homes and will try the same setup tonight- same amazon
account but two different spotify users from the same family account.

[stevensonmt]

@Fatwhitey I have two dots playing separate Spotify accounts under a single Spotify family plan.  I think the limit is two, though, mostly because of the Amazon policy limiting 2 accounts per household.  There are two possible and relatively simple solutions:

1. Alexa learns the skill "Play spotify from the <USERNAME> account."

2. Spotify family plan limits to 5 total devices divided among 1 to 5 users instead of limiting 1:1 user:device for up to 5 users.  Basically do things the way Netflix does.

[Fatwhitey]

Stevensonmt - Are each of your dots on separate amazon accounts?

[stevensonmt]

Yes.  Dot1 on my amazon and spotify accounts.  Dot2 on my daughter's amazon (created only for this purpose) and spotify accounts.  Her spotify account is linked to my spotify family plan.

[Jonfitt]

@Fatwhitey We had an Echo and 2 dots sharing 2 Amazon accounts paired with 2 Spotify accounts from one family plan no problem. One Echo and Dot share an account and so have the "one at a time" problem. 

I tried to link in a third Amazon account paired with a third Spotify account (from that same family plan) and ran into issues. I detailed it in that Reddit post, but it's about Amazon's household limit of 2 "adults" as @stevensonmt mentioned. 

Amazon could fix it or Spotify could fix it, but neither seems to consider this a problem worth fixing. 

My guess is Amazon will never fix it because Amazon Music doesn't have this issue so their solution is "ditch Spotify". 

Spotify could fix it easily if a family plan let you have X accounts and stream from up to X devices simultaneously. So one account could stream to 2 devices while another account to 3 devices. Or 6 accounts could each stream to one device. Any combination that didn't exceed the number of family members simultaneously. 

[Fatwhitey]

Ah thanks Jonfitt just did the same with 2 devices on separate amazon
accounts in same household using two spotify accounts on the same family
plan. They play simultaneously.
I also have a dot and will mess around with accounts to see what i can get.

Tried my 2 google homes on the same google and spotify accounts and only
one will play at a time. Will change google/spotify accounts on one and try
again.

Agree that we should get x streams period if the family plan supports x
streams. This setup fails if my wife tries to stream on her phone while
someone tries to use the echo.

[Tony_in_ATX]

This should be a given.  I don't know if the problem is Spotify or Alexa, but this feature should be added soon.

[Fatwhitey]

@jonfitt @stevensonmt I used a 3rd amazon account and an old mailing
address to link a 3rd spotify account from my family plan to device number
3. I have to logout of the alexa app and login to the other to config it
but all i want it to do is play music. Crappy hack.

Google seems smarter and similar tricks aren't yet working. Tried separate
Google/spot accts but no luck yet.