Alexa Voice Commands to Control Music from Spotify, Apple, and More

If you have an Amazon smart speaker at home, or any other equipment that allows you to interact with Alexa, you will know that its possibilities are very wide. One of the tasks most used by most users is to put music through voice commands, but do you know everything that this assistant can do in this musical section? Today we want to show you all the voice commands and functionalities Alexa can play related to music .

How to use Spotify, Apple Music, and more with Alexa

Alexa Voice Commands to Control Music from Spotify

Before we start showing you the best voice commands to master music with Alexa, it is important that we know where the Amazon assistant is going to take that music from. By this we mean which streaming music service is going to go to play what we ask of it.

Both Amazon smart speakers and Alexa itself, luckily, already include a fairly complete list of these services. And it is that, there is compatibility with:

  • Amazon Music, obviously, being the Amazon platform.
  • Spotify.
  • Tuneln.
  • SER string
  • Apple Music.
  • Apple Podcast.
  • Deezer.

The platform from which Alexa will take the music by default is, as you can imagine, Amazon Music . But, if we want to use any of these services, it will be as simple as:

  • Enter the Alexa app on your smartphone. The app you used to set up your smart speaker when you purchased it.
  • From the bottom bar, select the “More” option represented by the three lines.
  • Here, access the “Settings” menu for the account, then scroll to the “Music and podcast” option .
  • In this section there are those streaming music services that we have linked to. If ours does not appear here, as is the case, we will have to click on the option “Link new service” .

  • Here you must select the music platform you want. We are going to link Apple Music .
  • We will automatically be redirected to the Skills section and, depending on our choice, one or another extension will appear. In this screen we must “Allow its use” and log in with our account of said service to make the link.
  • As soon as we add a new content platform, the app itself will give us the option to change the default services  that are established. On this screen choose the changes that interest you. In the event that this screen does not appear, you will only have to go back to the “Music and podcast” menu and, in the “Default services” option at the top, select them.

Now you just have to ask Alexa to play some music for you to take it from said service. And what are the commands you should use? Well, it is just what we are going to see next.

Voice commands to control music with Alexa

First of all, let’s start with those simpler and more basic commands that you should know so that Alexa can play music through a smart speaker.

And it is that, as if they were the buttons of any sound equipment, we can ask Alexa to do:

  • If you want to listen to music in a random way we will simply have to say “Alexa, random playback” or, finally, “Alexa, for random playback”.
  • In the event that we need the music to stop, we will only have to say “Alexa, stop the music” or “Alexa, pause the music.”
  • And, to continue, we will have to say the following commands “Alexa, play” or “Alexa, resume.”
  • If we need to raise or lower the volume there are several commands that we can ask the assistant. An example of these are: “Alexa, turn the volume up / down”, “Alexa, turn the volume up to 7” (the levels, in this case, range from 1 to 10), “Alexa, turn the volume up to maximum” or “Alexa, turn the volume all the way down.”

Then we find those voice commands related to playing a specific song, style or list. Among all of them are the following possibilities:

  • “Alexa, put on music [sad]” , of course, we can change “sad” for any other feeling like “happy” or “emotional”.
  • “Alexa, put [Cadena SER]” , if you are one of those who enjoy listening to the radio, you can do so by replacing “Cadena SER” with any other radio station / station name.
  • “Alexa, play [Rico’s Life]” . As you can imagine, we can make Alexa put any song / album / artist that we ask for.
  • “Alexa, put

     . ” Whether we have a list created in our streaming music service or if we know the name of a playlist that we like, we can ask this assistant to put it. Although hey, if we want to be surprised by a random list, we could ask “Alexa, put a playlist from Prime . 

Alexa alarms

These are some of the most interesting commands of, we could say, intermediate level that we can ask the Amazon assistant. But its performance does not stop there.

If music is playing through the smart speaker and we would like to know what song it is , Alexa can help. We would just have to say “Alexa, what’s playing?” so that it tells us both the name of the song and the singer or group that interprets it.

Although nothing is playing, the Amazon assistant is a well of wisdom and we can ask for information about music groups, singers and much more . An example of this type of command could be “Alexa, who is the singer of Queen?”

One of the latest additions that Alexa has made to its available actions is to set a music timer . There are many people who like to fall asleep listening to music for example and, for this reason, now this assistant can help them. The maximum musical timer that we can set is 8 hours and, to start the countdown, we will only have to say “Alexa, put an hour of acoustic music”. In this way, we can enjoy our favorite list, genre or singer during the established time.

Of course, we can interact with this timer at any time with one of the following commands:

  • “Alexa, how much time is left on my music timer?”
  • “Alexa, add 30 minutes to my music timer.”
  • “Alexa, next song.”