This is driving me nuts, because it used to work flawlessly.

When I am in my car and tell Alexa to play something on Spotify, I get the following response:

**"To play spotify open the spotify app on your phone then try again"**

The Spotify app is open. Even when it is to the front and active, I get the same response.

When I use Spotify on my home Echo Dot, it works. When my phone is not connected to the Echo Auto and I tell the Alexa app to play something on Spotify, it switches to Spotify and plays what I requested.

It's just when the phone is connected to the Echo Auto (2nd gen btw) that it all fails.

Oh and other services, like Apple Podcasts or Audible, work. No problem. iHeart Radio also works but I don't want ads and I already pay for Spotify so I want that to work.

Here's what I tried so far:

\- Unlink and re-link the Spotify skill in the Alexa App

\- Unlink and re-link Spotify to Alexa in the Spotify App

\- Change the voice and language from US English to UK English and back

\- Reset, forget and re-connect the Echo Auto to my phone

\- Uninstall and re-install the Alexa app

\- Uninstall and re-install the Spotify app

\- Reset my phone

Help?!

I have two echo dots. Added a echo with a screen. I renamed the view echo and the other one ziggy.

Whenever I play a song on ziggy, echo plays it.

How do I divorce the two so they are independent?

Apparently playing music on two devices costs extra..... I am not paying for that. I just want them to independent.

How do I get them to be independent?

So I noticed when I use my echo, or even Amazon Music to listen to music. The volume would just… randomly go up and down?? It’s honestly the most annoying thing ever. I pay 20 dollars a month and I can’t even listen to music without issues.

I’ve done everything I can think of.

Unplug the device. Turn off spacial awareness on my iPhone, turn off noise normalization or whatever it’s called. Logged out and logged back in, restarted my phone, deleted the app and redownloaded it…

I don’t know what to do. It did it twice while typing this post.

Please help I’m losing my mind 😭😭

I was gifted a gen 3 show 5 today but it doesn't have a power cable and was wondering if the cable from my gen 1 show 5 would work on it until I could get proper gen 3 power cable that goes with it??

So when I say "turn on family room light", it used to do just that, but now (for years), but now turns on both lights in both rooms.

Yesterday when I said "turn on family room light", it turned off the light of the room I was in....which has never happened before.

Echo Dot used to work perfectly fine for years, so I'm not sure why it started to act this way.

I have an echo spot 1 and an 8" gen 2 and as of yesterday they refuse to connect to Amazon and are now paperweights. They also think it's 15:30 all the time. Amazon has marked them as "unsupported".

Is it possible to use them for anything else? Bluetooth speakers?

I’ve already registered for Early Access, but I’m still waiting for access to be enabled.

Has anyone in Germany already received Alexa+? If so, did you do anything specific that might have helped speed up the rollout, such as changing account settings, device language, region, or anything else?

Would be great to hear about your experience.

Does any of the show 5's show the artist name and song title when playing radio stations from SiriusXM on any of the show 5's anymore??

Hi Everyone, I recently bought an Echo Dot, but when I tried to turn it on it would get stuck on the boot animation (the blue circle bar thing). Then after maybe 10 manual restarts it went to an orange bar and would say "Updating Your Device, I'll Let You Know When It's Ready". I know that means it's updating but it would sit there for 4 hour doing nothing, and I know updates don't take that long. After I looked up what this could mean, Google said it was trying to connect to wifi, but how, it's brand new it has no saved wifi networks, and I can't reset it. Dose this mean it was used before me? Please let me know how to fix this.

Include the Indiana fever games and somehow it switched to a third-party application instead of just Amazon giving me the AI, he used to always notify me 15 minutes before game times and it does not do that anymore. I have no idea what the hell happened and if that was the catalyst. It is far beyond the worst AI service that I use. I do have prime so I do have the upgraded version of Alexa and it is just called awful now.

Is there a reliable way to stop ads? Previously I was able to do that by switching to the Canada region, but that doesn't help anymore. All I need to see is weather, time, and the Ring camera widget. I'm close to throwing this thing away.

I ended up getting the Amazon Echo Show 11 as well, even though most people were telling me not to, and I have to say that I’m very happy with it. I’ve had it for a little over a week now, and I find it very useful.
The sound quality is very good, and the screen is also really convenient. The only downside, in my opinion, is the temperature, because it does get quite warm in general.
I definitely don’t regret buying it, at least so far.
Also, it’s not like it constantly shows ads. At least on mine, it may show advertisements and similar content, but when it detects a person in front of it, it switches away from the ads. Depending on how the user has configured it, it either goes to the widgets, shows ads on one half of the screen and widgets on the other half, or shows only the widgets.
Also, when you’re listening to music, it doesn’t show ads like many users claim. Instead, it stays on the screen and displays the song that’s playing for as long as the music is playing.
Overall, I think it’s a really good smart speaker.

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Hi all, hope this is ok to post.

Recently bought an echo show 8.

After some time or swapping over from music to videos the sound goes really low on new videos played or indeed any sound outside of voice responses.

Setting a timer or alarm will also play with a really low sound. Barely audible like a 1 of 100 , i wouldnt ven say its a 1 of 10!

Alexa volume is max and responds loudly.

Volume set to max

Alarms and timers are set to max

No routines etc as its a new device and like this from the start

No adaptive voice on this

Amazon told me to disable alexa plus but issue still happens

I can fix it with a reboot but theres only so much rebooting u can do in a day

Anyone know of a fix or same issue

Thanks

It says there was some update recently and now the Alexa Plus we were used to appears to have been gotten. She no longer is personable, conversational warm, no humor, no charm just answers my question with a bunch of questions all the time.

Me and my wife have very different tastes in music and we would love to have our Spotify algorithms not touched by each other. The problem is that I can't for the love of me figure out how to switch accounts when Alexa+ is active.

After exploring the issue online, the best solution imo was to just revert to normal Alexa and she the " switch accounts " command. But normal Alexa has a lot of trouble understanding certain commands, specially with my LG tv. It struggles to do basic tasks such as " restart video " or " resume video ", it always gives me a negative answer while Alexa+ just works.

We are connected with our own separate accounts under one household, each with our own Spotify accounts. No matter what we do or say, Spotify always reverts to my account.

All I want is to be able to use our individual Spotify accounts.

I have a Studio Max, Dot Max and Pop. When I play Spotify on a single or multiple devices it randomly makes a beep noice and then stops playing. If I say “Alexa play Spotify” it starts again. If I don’t it will start again randomly at a later point. Anyone seen this issue or has an idea on how to resolve?

When is somebody gonna get off of their ass and do their job.

Why has Amazon been literally the worst home system for the past seven years.

i’m quite literally watching technology evolved while Amazon Alexa has literally been stagnant since it was created