[Amazon Alexa] Swap Spotify accounts without changing Alexa account

[rowets]

I have a Spotify Family account for myself and my wife

I have an alexa unit in every room, every unit is using MY amazon account as all the lights and home automation can only be setup on one Amazon account

I want to play Spotify in the room i’m in

My wife wants to play her music in a different room

Both myself and my wife also want to use the home automation whilst playing music, eg, turning on the lights

This can be done using Apple music and Amazon music but Spotify require to swap to a different spotify account for the other person

To swap to a different spotify account means changing the Alexa profile of the alexa device and then all the home automation no longer works from that device. 

Please can you allow both myself and my wife to play music in different rooms WITHOUT having to change the Amazon Alexa account

It would be great if I could say ‘Alexa, play spotify from Trevors account’ and my wife could say in a different room, at the same time, ‘Alexa, play spotify from Jackie’s account’ 

This is not a duplicate of other suggestions, I’ve checked and anything close was raised before the ability to swap alexa accounts was implemented. Swapping alexa accounts is only a work around and is not a solution to this problem.

Many people want this feature and your chat team said I should raise it here

Here is a link to the forum, lots of people are leaving spotify because only spotify do not support this feature, you guys need to catch up

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Premium-for-Family/FAMILY-AND-ECHO-ALEXA/m-p/4900618#M26242

From my research it seems there is talk about Spotify only has one concurrent music stream whereas Apple and Amazon music have multiple streams, but please can you improve on this, the thread above was started over 18 months ago, something should be done to improve on this issue

Again, please don’t write this off as a duplicate and do nothing/say it relates to a 3rd party, people still want this feature

Thanks

Trevor Rowe

19/2/2021

Folks, just a quick update on this.

Spotify say this

The Community team talks with various other Spotify teams several times a month about ideas with over 500 votes (our criteria for being a top idea). It’s from these meetings that we apply one of the following statuses to each idea….

This idea has reached over 500 votes so I asked on chat for timescales/what will happen next and was told to keep an eye on this thread.

That really sounded open ended!

As the person on chat could only deal with app and account queries, I was told to also contact the support team to get action on this

So as well as voting for this issue (please continue), 

Spotify need to keep up with Apple and Amazon and fix this issue - with your help we might just get this solved!

[Metalbry]

I can't deal with this much longer.  It's crazy this still isn't available.  Guess it's time to take a serious look at Amazon Music.

[PeddeF]

I'm currently user of Amazon Music Unlimited Family and want to switch to Spotify Premium family.

I need this option. Without, I won't switch 😕

[m1sterd]

I have just setup an Amazon Music Family account for this very reason, it seems to work exactly as I had hoped in that it just lets you stream from multiple devices using the same account until you hit the family number of streams, the big downside is they don’t have support for Google Home products which is poor.

[masonc]

I was just about to upgrade to Spotify family and buy more echos to play around the house, assuming that you could switch between people on each device.  Sometimes I’m in the living room, and sometimes it’s one of my kids, and I’m playing music in the office or car. 

[Xtotoy]

 

is this progress? would this be the setting to link the Spotify to my Alexa voice?

tried it during the weekend and my wife’s request liked Alexa to her Spotify account…

[beastpilot]

@xtotoy

That is not really progress- that only works in households with two adults. Even then if you request music on one speaker that your wife is enjoying, and then hop in your car, the music will stop at home.

[Xtotoy]

@beastpilot

Certainly new to me - have been using that other "change user" trick for years and only came across this when I had issues with Alexa and wanted to start from fresh... Now have all speakers on a single amazon account and the users selected within...

We are two adults here and I see that alexa wont let the kids register a voice profile... 

Alexa gets the voice and selects the correct spotify account but only sometimes... 

Not sure which account/profile would be chosen as default if the kids ask for a song.

Is there a link somewhere documenting this feature? How is it even called?

Just want to be sure I understand what is available to us and how to set it up

[steviehs]

One of the how many threads now, where people are requesting this from Spotify without any success over years? It is so frustrating... 😞

[simon_edmondson]

I've just bought some Echo units for our new house. I had no idea Spotify wouldn't cope with a family home with multiple, networked speakers. 

I've been a Spotify subscriber for years. When January comes around and I set up in our new home, I will be ditching our Spotify family subscription in favour of a service which handles it properly. Amazon I guess makes sense and looks like it provides what this thread is discussing.

Seems very weird that Spotify haven't developed this yet. They're falling behind, I reckon. I think that technology companies gradually become irrelevant when they don't keep up with the technology that their users are embracing. I don't think connected, networked households are such new technology anymore.

I'd like to.keep my Spotify account going and save myself the hassle of rebuilding playlists etc. But I won't keep it if it doesn't function they way I'd like to use it. 

[Captainsparky]

Yes it's a shame as Spotify is a much better system, but they don't seem
to be interested in doing anything about it.

I've had to use this very useful app to transfer all the playlists:
https://freeyourmusic.com/