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Go to Settings - Music & Media - Choose default music services, finally select Spotify. To trim the 2 postfix, I setup Echo to use Spotify as default music service. That is okay if I had subscription to the latter. I had to tell it “from Spotify” or else it will attempt to play via Amazon Music. If not, you may want to try performing logout and relogin, in case you were already logged in.Īlexa, play by from Spotify You should be able to link account to Spotify.

Now return back to, Settings - Music & Media. However, reader Leslie Lip pointed out that it is necessary to set the country to United States under Content and Devices instead. Previously, I suggested adding a US address into your account which was thought to work. Firstly, I tried to set my location via, Settings - General - Device location, and I even changed its Device time zone to US but failed to make Spotify option available.

Despite Spotify being available in Malaysia, Amazon greyed out the option. I knew that Echo could connect to Spotify.

Good but I wanted it to play what I want to listen to on demand. Wake it up and tell it to play music.Īlexa (wait sub-second for it to respond with LED glow), play Hitz FM from TuneIn. While wireless connection works fine, I would have preferred to connect via Ethernet port if it came with one. It will tell you to connect to Echo’s built-in Wi-Fi then proceed with setting it to connect to your home’s Wi-Fi. You need an account which you can create for free if you do not already have. As mentioned in the previous section, this was the approach that I used. You could perform the setup via web browser from laptop/desktop but not from mobile device web browsers. Setting up via desktop or laptop web browser I configured my device from my laptop’s web browser. I did not setup my Alexa via the mobile app but it should work. I strongly recommend that you do NOT install Alexa App from untrusted sources. Getting the app directly from Amazon is the most secure option. You may be prompted to authorise installation of app from unknown sources. The way around this (for Android) is to first install Amazon Appstore. The message on Play Store says This item cannot be installed in your device’s country.

The first problem I faced was the absence of Amazon Alexa app from Google Play Store. Neither need expensive transformer nor international adapters. No issues there except that the plug is US-type. The Echo adapter supports 110-240v range. My journey - problems and solutions US plug