Part 3. Alternative Way to Play Spotify Music via Google Home
Follow the detailed tutorial mentioned above, can you play Spotify on Google Home, Home Mini or Home Max now? But you should keep in mind that there could be some unexpected problems when you use Spotify free on Google Home. According to some Spotify subscribers who use Google Home to stream songs, they have met some obstacles: such as can’t hear Spotify on Google Home, can't get Spotify work on Google Home, etc. But they didn't get the official solution to solve them yet.
If you want to set up your free Spotify account with Home, open the Google Home app, and tap “music.” To choose your default service, tap the radio icon next to the service you want. Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes as Spotify says its free tier will now stream across Alexa-powered devices, as well as other. The Google Home’s default music provider is Google Play Music, but the device also supports Spotify. Here’s how to link your Spotify account to your Google Home to play all of the third-party music you’d ever want. RELATED: How to Set Up Google Home. Just like Alexa, you can change the default music service. So, by simply saying “Ok Google, play The Weeknd”, it will automatically use Spotify to play music instead of Google Play. I just got a google home for Christmas and went to test it out. At first, it worked great and would play music from Spotify just fine. But after a few minutes, I would tell it to play something on Spotify and it would respond with 'Playing insert name on Spotify' and the song would not play.
To make Spotify playable on Google Home without problem, here, we will also introduce an alternative solution to get Spotify on Home speaker. You can use a professional third-party Spotify downloading tool, such as AudFree Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify music to MP3. And then you can upload downloaded offline Spotify songs, playlists or albums to Google Play Music account. As consequence, you can listen to Spotify tracks with built-in music provider instead of Spotify. To learn how to use AudFree software to download Spotify songs offline with your free or paying account, please visit this guide: How to Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3.
When you have downloaded and converted Spotify tracks as MP3 files, you can sync those Spotify downloads to Google Play Music via Music Manager.
Step 1. Launch Google Play Music Manager on your computer and login to your Google account.
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Step 2. Select 'Menu' to choose 'Upload songs to Google Play' option and then you can click the 'Continue' button to go to the next step.
Step 3. Now, you can start to choose the destination folder including Spotify tracks by clicking the 'Other folder and then touch the ‘Next’ button. Once you navigate the target folder, you need to follow the prompts. Spotify premium apk 5.6.0.660.
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Step 4. Spotify music tracks will be moved to Google Play via Music Manager. Once done, you can play all uploaded Spotify tracks on Google Home with Google Play Music without any limit.
Being a Spotify Premium user just got sweeter.
The music streaming giant has teamed up with Google Home and starting today, premium subscribers can claim a FREE Google Home Mini Speaker as part of their plan.
Yes, free. You don’t even have to pay for shipping (unless you choose expedited, that is).
To redeem the offer, new users can sign up for their premium plan here.
Here’s how new users can claim the offer:
1. Click on the applicable link above.
2. Using your email and necessary payment information, register for the $9.99/month Spotify premium plan.
3. After successful registration, users will be able to claim their free Google Home Mini Speaker. An email will be sent allowing users to claim the speaker.
4. The email will bring users to the Google store, where they can select between a white or charcoal coloured-speaker.
5. After selecting your colour, enter your shipping and payment information once more.
6. The discount will be visible upon checkout.
The deal is also applicable to existing subscribers, however, they must be subscribed to the $9.99/month premium plan.
Anyone subscribed to Premium for Students, Premium for Family, or Premium with PlayStation Music, will not be able to receive the speaker.
The offer runs from now until May 9, 2019, or while supplies last.