With Amazon Alexa in the house, you now can issue a voice command to order up whatever music you feel like hearing, all without moving an inch from where you are. Playing music is one of most popular Alexa skills.

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In the Alexa app, go to Menu button Settings Music ‘CHOOSE DEFAULT MUSIC SERVICES’. What you will see is that the Spotify option is greyed out. Tap on ‘CHOOSE DEFAULT MUSIC SERVICES’. Spotify is greyed out. Go to the Amazon website and log into your account. Scroll all the way down. Get more out of Alexa. Set up your smart home devices, connect with friends and family using Alexa Communication, view shopping lists, get weather and news updates, connect to services you already use like Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and much more. So when you ask Alexa to play songs, artists, playlists, and genres, it will play music from Spotify. When you ask Alexa to play “Channel 16,” it will play Sirius XM station The Blend. To change the default music service you use for radio, open the Alexa app on your phone.

How to play music through Alexa

The first thing you have to decide is how you want to play your music through Alexa. You have two choices:

Use a music service provider. This is a third-party service that supplies you with music, sometimes for a fee. Examples include Amazon Music and Spotify.
Use your mobile device music. If your music is stored on a smartphone or tablet, you can stream that music through your Alexa device using a Bluetooth connection.

How to link Alexa to a music provider like Spotify

Alexa doesn’t have access to music on its own. Instead, you need to connect Alexa to whatever music provider service you use. The services supported by Alexa depend on where you live, but common providers include Amazon Music, Spotify, and TuneIn.

Some music providers require you to have a special type of account or subscription before they’ll let you connect to Alexa. For example, you can only connect Spotify to Alexa if you have a Spotify Premium subscription.

Before Alexa can use a music provider, you need to give Alexa permission to access your account on that provider. This is called linking your account, and you need to link each music provider you want to access through Alexa. (The exception here is Amazon Music, which is automatically linked to Alexa when you log in to Amazon using the Alexa app.) Follow these steps to link a music provider to Alexa:

In the Alexa app, choose Menu → Settings.
The Settings menu appears.
Tap Music.
The Alexa app displays the Music Services screen, which looks similar to the following figure. If the service you want to use requires permission to allow Alexa to access your account, you see a link to the right of the service. In the figure, for example, you see “Link account on Spotify.com” next to the Spotify service.
Tap the link to the right of the service, and then follow the instructions that appear.
In most cases, you need to log in to your music service and then tap the link or button that authorizes Alexa to access your account.
When the link is complete, tap Close (X) in the upper-right corner of the app.
The Alexa app displays a notification to let you know that you can use Settings to change the default music provider.
If you want to change the default provider, tap the notification’s Go to Settings.

Set up a default music provider, like Spotify, for Amazon Alexa

When you connect the Alexa app to your Amazon account, you get automatic access to Amazon Music, which Alexa sets up as your default music provider. Here, “default” means that when you ask Alexa to play, for example, a song or an artist, Alexa retrieves that music from the default service.

Note, too, that just because you set up one music service as the default, it doesn’t mean that you can’t ever use some other service. For example, if you’re using Amazon Music as the default provider, but you also have your Spotify account linked to Alexa, you can still play something from Spotify by including the service name as part of your voice command. For example:

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“Alexa, play Camera Obscura from Spotify.”

If you’re cool with using Amazon Music as your default provider, there’s nothing to see here, so feel free to move on to the next section. If, instead, you want to use a different provider as the default, you need to follow these steps to set up that provider as Alexa’s default music service:

In the Alexa app, choose Menu → Settings.
The Settings menu appears.
Tap Music.
The Alexa app displays the Music Services screen.
Tap Choose Default Music Services.
The Alexa app prompts you to choose a default music library and radio station service, as shown in the following figure.
Select a music service under the Default Music Library section.
Select a music service under the Default Station Service section.
Tap Done.
The Alexa app updates your music settings.

Voice commands for controlling music on Amazon Alexa

Okay, now it’s time to get down, get funky, or get wherever you end up when you listen to your favorite music. Alexa has an extremely long list of voice commands for playing and controlling music.

Some notes to bear in mind as you work through these commands:

Not all these commands will work on all music services. Almost all of them work as advertised on Amazon Music, but your results will vary if you try them with another provider (such as Spotify).
Except where noted, all these commands work on the default music service. To run a command on another service that you’ve linked to Alexa, follow the command with “on [service],” where service is the name of the music provider (for example, “on Spotify”).
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How to play music by song, album, or artist

Here are some commands to order up music by song title, album title, or artist name:

“Alexa, play the song [title].”
“Alexa, play the song [title] by [artist].”
“Alexa, play the album [title].”
“Alexa, play music by [artist].”
“Alexa, play popular songs by [artist].”
“Alexa, play the latest [artist] album.”
“Alexa, play that song that goes [lyrics].” (For example, “Alexa, play that song that goes ‘Who let the dogs out.’”)
“Alexa, play the song I just bought.”

How to play music by genre

To get Alexa to play songs from a particular music genre, use the following command:

“Alexa, play [genre] music.”

For genre, there are dozens of possibilities, but here are the most popular:

Acoustic	Electronic	Metal
Alternative	Folk	New age
Blues	Gospel	Opera
Broadway	Hard rock	Pop

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