Voice control your favorite music with Spotify on Google Home and Google Nest.
Hopefully 2020 sees an improvement between Amazon and Google on both hardware and software sides. We’d love to see full voice support for Amazon Music come to Google Home, but at the very least, we hope Amazon adds Cast support to the iOS version of the Amazon Music app to help out iOS users who own Google Home devices.
- The Google Home app is the control center for all of your Google devices. You can use it to cast to a Google Home hub (with screen), a Chromecast device, or even to control other supported smart.
- 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.
Link Spotify to your Google Home or Google Nest
- Make sure your mobile device is connected to the same WiFi as your Google device.
- Open the Google Home app.
- Tap Account in the top-right.
- Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your Google Home or Google Nest device. To switch accounts, tap another account or Add another account.
- Back on the home screen, tap + in the top-left, then Music and audio.
- Select Spotify and tap Link Account, then Log in to Spotify.
Note: If you don’t already have a Spotify account, you can create one at this point. Afterwards, you’ll need to start the account link process from the beginning.
Voice commands
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Once you’ve linked your Spotify account to Google Home, you can ask it to play your favorite music
Just say, 'OK Google', then..
- “Play my Discover Weekly on Spotify”.
- “Turn up the volume on Spotify”.
- “Play some rock music on Spotify”.
- “Pause this song on Spotify”.
- Check out more voice commands on the Google Home support site.
Tip: You can also control the Spotify app on your Android with Google Assistant.
FAQ
Nope! You can make Spotify the default player on your Google home so you don’t have to specify “on Spotify”. Google Home gives you the option to do this when you ask it to play music, simply say “yes” to agree.
You can also make Spotify the default player manually:
- In the Google Home app, tap Account in the top-right.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Music under services.
- Select Spotify to set it as the default music player for your Google home.
Listen on another account using Google Voice Match
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Note: All Google Home accounts need to be linked to Spotify. Follow the steps above under Get started to link Spotify to Google Home.
Listen on another account by unlinking the current Spotify account
You can unlink the current Spotify account from your Google Home with these steps:
- In the Google Home app, tap Account in the top-right.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Music under services.
- Tap UNLINK.
- Then, follow the steps above under Get started to link Spotify to Google Home.
Need help?
For help setting up and troubleshooting, check out the Google Home support site.
Check out other articles on our support site for help with your Spotify account,payments, or if you can’t play music.
Voice control your favorite music with Spotify on Google Home and Google Nest.
Link Spotify to your Google Home or Google Nest
- Make sure your mobile device is connected to the same WiFi as your Google device.
- Open the Google Home app.
- Tap Account in the top-right.
- Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your Google Home or Google Nest device. To switch accounts, tap another account or Add another account.
- Back on the home screen, tap + in the top-left, then Music and audio.
- Select Spotify and tap Link Account, then Log in to Spotify.
Note: If you don’t already have a Spotify account, you can create one at this point. Afterwards, you’ll need to start the account link process from the beginning.
Voice commands
Once you’ve linked your Spotify account to Google Home, you can ask it to play your favorite music
Just say, 'OK Google', then..
- “Play my Discover Weekly on Spotify”.
- “Turn up the volume on Spotify”.
- “Play some rock music on Spotify”.
- “Pause this song on Spotify”.
- Check out more voice commands on the Google Home support site.
Tip: You can also control the Spotify app on your Android with Google Assistant.
FAQ
Nope! You can make Spotify the default player on your Google home so you don’t have to specify “on Spotify”. Google Home gives you the option to do this when you ask it to play music, simply say “yes” to agree.
You can also make Spotify the default player manually:
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- In the Google Home app, tap Account in the top-right.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Music under services.
- Select Spotify to set it as the default music player for your Google home.
Listen on another account using Google Voice Match
To listen on another Spotify account, you can use Google Voice Match.
Note: All Google Home accounts need to be linked to Spotify. Follow the steps above under Get started to link Spotify to Google Home.
Listen on another account by unlinking the current Spotify account
You can unlink the current Spotify account from your Google Home with these steps:
- In the Google Home app, tap Account in the top-right.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Music under services.
- Tap UNLINK.
- Then, follow the steps above under Get started to link Spotify to Google Home.
Need help?
For help setting up and troubleshooting, check out the Google Home support site.
Check out other articles on our support site for help with your Spotify account,payments, or if you can’t play music.