In the last three years, the only way to get Spotify on an Amazon Echo or Sonos speaker was to spend Spotify Premium, Spotify's premium streaming service, for $9.99 / AU$11.99. € per month But as of today, Spotify announced that it is changing its policy by allowing all users of Amazon Echo, Sonos or Bose speakers in the United States, Australia and New Zealand to use Spotify's free ad-supported service. For Amazon device owners, this means you can use Spotify Free on your Echo devices like the Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Echo Studio, as well as your Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire TV Cube drives, though you need to associate your Amazon and Spotify accounts. . Do That The process is a bit different for Bose and Sonos speakers, which use Spotify Connect through the Spotify app to stream music, but the end result for ad-supported free music is exactly the same.
free music for everyone
It's been a good few weeks if you don't like paying for music streaming services. First, Amazon has announced that it will make its Amazon Music service accessible to everyone, not just those with an Amazon Prime subscription, and Spotify is now opening up its free service to more speakers. . So why is everyone opening their digital catalogs to the masses? As the music streaming market becomes increasingly saturated with competition, services must offer more accommodations to subscribers to keep them in tune. That's why Spotify, a service that allowed listeners to choose what they listened to from the start, surpassed Pandora as the world's most popular streaming service. Opening up these services to the masses also makes industry advertising more lucrative. So whatever Amazon and Spotify's losses in subscription terms, they'll make up for ad revenue. TL; DR: You get free music and these services keep your business while satisfying the companies that advertise this service.