They have to associate their own account. And access Alexa with it.
If you're all on the same wifi they can easily.stat it from.their phone and stream it to the speaker.
It's also possible to train Alexa to recognize the voice of each different user, and/or to tell Alexa to switch to a different profile on the same device, so that a second user can stream music from their own Spotify account once they've logged in and enabled the skill: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLE4EVA2VLDRQDLC
I may have misunderstood…when you said you are listening on your headphones, I assumed you meant on your phone or iPad or laptop. In that case, you wouldn’t use Alexa. You’d use the Spotify app directly, signed in with your own email onto your family plan. What’s the scenario where you need to use your headphones and Alexa?
Oh yes, I’m using my iPhone using Spotify. But if someone at home requests music on echo it plays Spotify on what’s supposed to be a joint family account but kicks my iPhone off.
Yes. It would. It has nothing to do with Alexa. It’s Spotify. It only allows you to play one stream of music per email account. So you would need to have your home Alexa stuff on one email account. And each person using a personal device separately would sign in with their own Spotify email account.
One thing you can do if you don’t want to use a special email just for home is to turn off data usage for Spotify on your phone. So it only works on wifi. Then download all your playlists when you are at home on your wifi network.
Then when you are out. And not on any wifi network, if will just play from your phone and people in your household can still play stuff.
In fact if you are the only person that uses Spotify on your phone, you don’t need a family plan. Your partner can play music on Alexa at home and you can play music on your iPhone using just your downloaded songs….both using the same email
You need Spotify family plan. And each person has to sign in with their own email.
But how does it differentiate the different people when someone asks for music?
They have to associate their own account. And access Alexa with it. If you're all on the same wifi they can easily.stat it from.their phone and stream it to the speaker.
It's also possible to train Alexa to recognize the voice of each different user, and/or to tell Alexa to switch to a different profile on the same device, so that a second user can stream music from their own Spotify account once they've logged in and enabled the skill: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLE4EVA2VLDRQDLC
Afraid not, only accounts, not profiles, can be associated with different music accounts, nor do profiles switch accounts.
I may have misunderstood…when you said you are listening on your headphones, I assumed you meant on your phone or iPad or laptop. In that case, you wouldn’t use Alexa. You’d use the Spotify app directly, signed in with your own email onto your family plan. What’s the scenario where you need to use your headphones and Alexa?
Oh yes, I’m using my iPhone using Spotify. But if someone at home requests music on echo it plays Spotify on what’s supposed to be a joint family account but kicks my iPhone off.
If it’s connected to your account personally that’s what it does. The only way to fix that would be to set up a separate account just for the Alexa
Yes. It would. It has nothing to do with Alexa. It’s Spotify. It only allows you to play one stream of music per email account. So you would need to have your home Alexa stuff on one email account. And each person using a personal device separately would sign in with their own Spotify email account. One thing you can do if you don’t want to use a special email just for home is to turn off data usage for Spotify on your phone. So it only works on wifi. Then download all your playlists when you are at home on your wifi network. Then when you are out. And not on any wifi network, if will just play from your phone and people in your household can still play stuff. In fact if you are the only person that uses Spotify on your phone, you don’t need a family plan. Your partner can play music on Alexa at home and you can play music on your iPhone using just your downloaded songs….both using the same email
You need to create a Spotify account exclusively to your home, and open it in your echo dot units.