Amazon Echo Now Plays Nice With Spotify

Good news for Spotify Premium subscribers in the U.Southward. who happen to own (or are thinking of buying) an Amazon Repeat.

Amazon on Thursday announced that its Wi-Fi connected speaker now plays nice with Spotify, letting yous control your music with voice commands. To activate this new characteristic, but link your Spotify account in the Alexa app. So yous'll exist able to say "Alexa [the Echo'south wake word], play Blink 182 from Spotify," or "Alexa, play Today'south Top Hits from Spotify," and the speaker will start bumping the jams.

Previously, yous could merely access Spotify by connecting Repeat to your telephone via Bluetooth and streaming the music from your handset. Now, Spotify is officially role of Alexa'south vocabulary.

Once you set it up, you can enquire Alexa to play any playlist (including ones you lot have created), artist, or genre from Spotify's catalog. One time the music is playing, yous can use vocalization commands to pause and skip tracks.

Spotify Connect also works on the Repeat, which lets you lot seamlessly switch betwixt playing music on your phone to the speaker when yous walk in the house. So, if you're listening to something on your headphones, Alexa will automatically get-go rocking the tunes from your Repeat when you get home. To prepare this feature, just select Echo from the list of available devices inside the Spotify app.

"Music is one of the most popular features on Amazon Repeat, andSpotifyhas been one of the virtually requested services, and so we're excited to bring it to our customers today," Amazon Alexa Director Toni Reid said in a statement.

Echo also offers similar integrations with Amazon Music, Prime Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and TuneIn.

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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