How to connect Alexa to Spotify, Apple Music, and more

As you might expect, Alexa-friendly devices tend to assume that you want to hear tunes from Amazon Music. If you prefer Spotify, Apple Music, or another music service, it’s not all that hard to set it up and use it with your Amazon devices.

And you’re done. You can now use that service with your Alexa device.

Specifying the exact station and service all the time can become tiresome. If you have a favorite service other than Amazon Music — or an internet radio station you usually listen to — you can set it as a default. 

Now if you have more than one service installed but you have set, say, Spotify as your default, you can ask for songs by a particular musician without having to add “from Spotify.”

Update June 7th, 2023, 2:25PM ET: This article was originally published on November 19th, 2019, and has been updated to account for changes in the app.