How to Listen to Music on my Echo Dot with Any Paid and Free Platform

By default Alexa when playing music does it through Amazon Music since it is your born player; however, you have the option to link it with other music services that are more convenient for you, such as Spotify. If you have an account in this application and you don’t know how to listen to it through Alexa, we will tell you how to do it.

What music platforms can be accessed with Alexa?

Although Alexa is a special tool from Amazon, it has the ability to link with other music platforms.

This pre-binding process is usually unproblematic and easily accomplished. Let’s talk a little about the two most used platforms, one of them is Amazon Music which by default is linked to Alexa and the other is Spotify, which although it is not linked, we will teach you how to do it.

Amazon Music

Amazon Music is a streaming music and online store, At first it started as a paid platform but today it works for free although it has a premium version. It comes directly linked to Alexa and to enjoy it you just have to open an account from its App that you can download directly from the Play Store.

And Spotify

When you enter the Alexa settings you will notice that you have the option to music service via Spotify but it is not a linked account, this means that you must add your account to the settings to be able to listen to it.

How to listen to free music with Amazon Echo Dot?

Listening to free music on your Amazon Echo Dot is possible, both from the Amazon Music platform and from Spotify, you just have to link this service to your Amazon Echo Dot.

To do this you have to first access the Alexa application, then go to the settings until you reach the ‘Settings’ section, here you will have to scroll down until you find the section that says ‘Music’, press the (+) icon that appears within that tab, select the Spotify option and proceed to add your account regardless of whether it is premium or not.

Once your Spotify account is associated with the Amazon Dot you can listen to all the music you want no need to pay for it. You can choose from among all the lists that appear on Spotify and that they name ´The best´.

How do Bluetooth devices connect to play music?

In order to listen to music from your Amazon Echo Dot it is necessary that first link to the player team which is usually a mobile phone. You can connect your Amazon Echo Dot to an iPhone or Android using your voice to ask Alexa or you can also do it manually, either way, we explain them below.

• To use the voice just say ‘Alexa Pair’, in front of this the speaker will notify you when it is ready by saying ‘Ready to Pair’.

• Once you are told that it is possible to pair, you have to go to the Bluetooth settings of your device and select the name of the Echo Dot to start the pairing process.
• Wait a few minutes for the process to take place and everything will be ready when Alexa says: ‘Connected to Bluetooth’. As you can see, it is a process as easy as connecting via bluetooth to a PC.

It is important to know that for this process to be carried out, Alexa must first be configured from its main page. For this you have to, activate pairing mode.

Then on your phone open the ‘Alexa’ application, go to the option that says ‘Select device’, click on ‘Echo and Alexa’, select your device and press where it says ‘Bluetooth devices’ and then ‘Pair a new device’, you will only have to wait a few seconds and that’s it.

How to play the radio stations on Amazon Echo Dot?

• Enter from your mobile device to the App Amazon Alexa.
• Click on the tab that says ‘Play’.
• Locate and select the option that says ‘Browse Music’.
• At the top of the screen you will have to select the speaker on which you want to listen to the station.
• Then you are going to select ‘TuneIn’. This is the radio directory that the Amazon Echo uses by default.
• Now you just have to browse through the radio stations that appear and that’s it.