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#303160 20-Jan-2023 09:21
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So, I bought my daughter a dot.  Was under the impression i could create a user within spotify (Family acccount) and have that assigned to her dot.  Instead it has defaulted to mine, as i used my phone to set it up.

 

Is there further settings within Spotify or the app that i can assign a different user to?

 

Or option B

 

Sign her into the spotify app on my phone, setup the dot, sign her out and happy days??

 

Option C

 

Set the whole thing up on a different device?

 

 

 

As it stands now, if she uses spotify on the dot at home, mine gets hijaked if i am using it in the office or car.

 

First world problems, i know!





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  #3024617 20-Jan-2023 09:24
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Do you have spotify family plan or just one profile on spotify? you would need to have a family plan to set up her profile.




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  #3024623 20-Jan-2023 09:43
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Family account

 

 





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  #3024634 20-Jan-2023 10:03
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How many Alexa devices do you have? Is this dot on her Amazon account or yours?

You can have oy on Spotify account per Alexa account, not per device. You set it using the Alexa app.




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  #3024636 20-Jan-2023 10:09
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Just the one device, set her up as her own user in the amazon app

 

So all roads lead to it using my account as it is on my phone?





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  #3024717 20-Jan-2023 10:53
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Load the Amazon Alexa app, login with her account and when connecting Spotify make sure to login with her Spotify account. IF you already linked yours then you will have to remove the skill and add again - make sure the Spotify account logged in is the correct one.

 

If you are using your phone you can then logout from her Alexa account after this.





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  #3024721 20-Jan-2023 11:04
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Am 90% sure i did it that way.  Will go and have another nudge at it tonight.

 

Cheers for sounding it out

 

 





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  #3024732 20-Jan-2023 11:42
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For anyone else reading this thread, you can link an Amazon Alexa account to a single Spotify account. This setting will be used for all devices in your Amazon account.

 

You can't set Spotify accounts for individual devices if they are all linked to the same Alexa account. 





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  #3024755 20-Jan-2023 12:32
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freitasm:

 

For anyone else reading this thread, you can link an Amazon Alexa account to a single Spotify account. This setting will be used for all devices in your Amazon account.

 

You can't set Spotify accounts for individual devices if they are all linked to the same Alexa account. 

 

 

 

 

Which also means you can't listen to different music from two separate Alexa devices at the same time. So when I'm in the workshop, and the wife is in her craft den, we either both listen to the same thing, or one of me uses a bluetooth speaker instead. Why she doesn't want to listen to Motorhead while crafting, I'll never know!


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  #3024762 20-Jan-2023 12:57
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I need to correct it because my playlist is turning to shite, although Miss 8 is getting an appreciation for Rage against the machine...... not mad about that





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  #3068909 28-Apr-2023 14:59
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OK, after a chat with Amazon, my account has been sorted.

 

Have set up Miss on her own spotify account, full family plan

 

Assigned that to her dot, and signed her out of my device 

 

 

 

Question

 

When asking for a specific song via spotify on the dot, it always goes to "Playing x, on spotify radio"

 

Like it was on the free version?

 

Has anyone come across this before?

 

 





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