Music on Alexa in 2 rooms
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This seems like such a basic thing that I’m pissed off with myself for not being able to make it work!
I have 2 Echo’s, Sonos and Spotify Family Premium. In the kitchen I want to use one echo to play whatever on the Sonos and I want to play something different in my office just on an echo, but every time it just cuts off the other device from playing. It’s infuriating!!
I thought one of the key selling points of Spotify Family was that you could stream up to 6 accounts? What am I missing?!
Spotify is the default music service on Alexa.
I have 2 Echo’s, Sonos and Spotify Family Premium. In the kitchen I want to use one echo to play whatever on the Sonos and I want to play something different in my office just on an echo, but every time it just cuts off the other device from playing. It’s infuriating!!
I thought one of the key selling points of Spotify Family was that you could stream up to 6 accounts? What am I missing?!
Spotify is the default music service on Alexa.
If it's the same as Google Home then you need to set Alexa up to recognise different voices and link them to gmail accounts. Those voices/accounts are then linked to different Spotify accounts and have access to individual playlists etc.
If you don't use this then there is only one account linked to Google Home and therefore only one stream at a time. I've even had my Spotify in the car being 'taken over' when the missus was playing music in the kitchen.
If you don't use this then there is only one account linked to Google Home and therefore only one stream at a time. I've even had my Spotify in the car being 'taken over' when the missus was playing music in the kitchen.
I'm sure there's a setting on the Alexa app, to set up a Speaker group for music...and then it'll stream to just those devices that you put in the group.
You could setup up different groups of devices and then assign a friendly name..
So, Alexa play music in "kitchen", "the house", "my Office" etc
You could setup up different groups of devices and then assign a friendly name..
So, Alexa play music in "kitchen", "the house", "my Office" etc
aquarianone said:
I'm sure there's a setting on the Alexa app, to set up a Speaker group for music...and then it'll stream to just those devices that you put in the group.
You could setup up different groups of devices and then assign a friendly name..
So, Alexa play music in "kitchen", "the house", "my Office" etc
Yes, you can group speakers together to play the same content on multiple Echos. This can be configured in the app. You could setup up different groups of devices and then assign a friendly name..
So, Alexa play music in "kitchen", "the house", "my Office" etc
The original question though was regarding different content on different echos at the same time. I believe that this depends on the source of the content.
Prime music on one and Tunein on another - OK
Prime music on two - not OK - need to upgrade your subscription to enable this - amazon music unlimited
I don't have spotify but a quick google suggests that you can't have two spotify streams to different rooms even with the spotify family setup. I guess they want you to subscribe to prime / amazon unlimited for this use case
I've got a sonos and 1 echo and have the same issue.
Also get the issue when the wife listens to something in the car it cuts the sonos off.
I believe it's down to Amazon not recognising multiple accounts with spotify.
We have had to cancel spotify and get Amazon music unlimited.
But rubbish really as the wife has had spotify for years and has lots of playlists
Also get the issue when the wife listens to something in the car it cuts the sonos off.
I believe it's down to Amazon not recognising multiple accounts with spotify.
We have had to cancel spotify and get Amazon music unlimited.
But rubbish really as the wife has had spotify for years and has lots of playlists
jonwm said:
I've got a sonos and 1 echo and have the same issue.
Also get the issue when the wife listens to something in the car it cuts the sonos off.
I believe it's down to Amazon not recognising multiple accounts with spotify.
We have had to cancel spotify and get Amazon music unlimited.
But rubbish really as the wife has had spotify for years and has lots of playlists
I reckon that’s what we’re going to have to do, massive PITA as we’ve found amazon doesn’t have some of the stuff we (I!) like. Also get the issue when the wife listens to something in the car it cuts the sonos off.
I believe it's down to Amazon not recognising multiple accounts with spotify.
We have had to cancel spotify and get Amazon music unlimited.
But rubbish really as the wife has had spotify for years and has lots of playlists
Somebody said:
How about using 2 separate amazon accounts (his and hers?), each with it's own echo and Spotify account (from a family subscription)?
Just tried this, and it doesn't work. Echo Spot with my wife's profile, ask it to play some music and says it's playing from her Spotify account.
If I then ask an Echo Dot with my profile to play something, it says it's playing from my Spotify but stops the other device.
ladderino said:
Somebody said:
How about using 2 separate amazon accounts (his and hers?), each with it's own echo and Spotify account (from a family subscription)?
Just tried this, and it doesn't work. Echo Spot with my wife's profile, ask it to play some music and says it's playing from her Spotify account.
If I then ask an Echo Dot with my profile to play something, it says it's playing from my Spotify but stops the other device.
All three can play different songs at the same time.
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