Amazon music // Spotify alternative

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Hi all

I love the echo dots around the home, purely for the voice activation of specific music tracks.

Unfortunately, the way amazon chooses to integrate Spotify means that I can't really set up multiroom without much effort and cost.

Amazon music is pretty awesome, at least in that it doesn't seem to matter how many units are active. Works in my car etc. Very straightforward. But.... Amazon music isn't anywhere as good as Spotify in terms of choice.

I can't justify keeping both, and Spotify on its own doesn't really satisfy the multiroom needs.

I don't mind relying on localmp3s, I have quite a collection.

I'd like to explore if there's a way of using voice, via the echos, to play the local mp3s.

Any suggestions, or is this just unrealistic expectations? Ta

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Strange... What part doesn't work? We have 7 Echo's/Echo dots and use spotify and use spotify connect all the time. We also have other groups besides everywhere in which I'll be playing my spotify on one group and my wife will play spotify on her group. (usually while we're cleaning) Right now I have spotify playing everywhere.

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@rlithgow1 - would you mind giving some details of how yours is setup?

what type of spotify account etc..... can you use "echo....play Iron Maiden" in any room, simultaneously without the music elsewhere stopping etc?

I'll give a full response soon, in a rush

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You say, Alexa... Play ironmaiden on everywhere (everywhere is the group)

Note: Make spotify your default... Or from in amazon music/spotify simply pick the group or speaker you want to play on... (I hate talking so this is the way I do it)

Or Alexa play iron maiden from spotify on everywhere

Or Alexa... Spotify Connect and anyone who's local regardless if they're attached to your home or not can use their own spotify and pick available groups.

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To add to this; you'll need to make sure all of your of you echo dots are part of the "Everywhere" speaker group: Settings->Devices->Echo & Alexa->Speaker Groups (scroll to bottom of list)->Edit

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The only ones I leave out are the ones in the kid's rooms...

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Still out at the minute.

The issue is that I can't play one track on one echo, and a different one on another.

This is by voice (stipulation due to the kids using it and the other half). I generally hate voice activated stuff. I make the exception for playing tracks, j think it's awesome.

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ok - a better explantion, I hope.

I have spotify family, which, from memory, allows 5 connections.

I have an amazon account, and several dots.

It appears that one amazon account can be linked to one spotify account.

Thus, if I use the dot in one room, voice, to play a track... then minutes later, in another room, the wife uses a dot in there to play a track - the first one stops.

To avoid this, as I see it, you need to have multiple amazon accounts and also multiple spotify accounts. one room, one dot, one amazon acc, one spotify account.

Obviously with the family version of spotify this gives me 5 (?) accounts, which I could then link individually to several amazon accounts. But then I'd need to say, share one of those between say, my car (phone) and say, the bathroom account. I then drive, and whoever hits play last between myself and the shower user 'wins'.

I really feel like this explanation is over-complicating things. All I want to do it play spotify, using voice, on whichever echo I'd like throughout the home or our phones (a total of 8, although almost certainly only using 3-4 at a time), without anyone being 'taken over'.

Amazon music, however, allows 6 (?) simultaneous individual connections. Works ace for the above.

But unfortunately, we both feel the amazon music selection is pretty poor.

Summary - if I could have the same functionality as amazon music through the dots (but with Spotify) then.... job done.

Hope this makes sense.

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Are all the Echo's/Dots on the same Amazon account?

Oh, I think I know how you're doing it.
You're using your phone and telling it to play Spotify on certain speakers, and your wife is using her phone to play her Spotify on other speakers?

I was thinking you had somehow figured out how to link two Spotify accounts to the Amazon account.

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^ that's my assumption.

doesn't seem to be a way of using voice/echo for multiple.

Her's a better link describing:

i.e "tough - no"

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We're on the family plan. She logs in with her spotify account and I log in with mine

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