Back in October, Spotify resurrected its free Google Home Mini offer, but expanded its reach by opening the offer up to all Premium Individual subscribers as well as Premium Family master account holders. The offer only lasted a few days, but if you happened to miss out the first time around, Spotify is giving us all one more chance to grab the free Google Home Mini smart speaker. Plus, Student accounts are eligible this time as well.
Head to this page on Spotify’s website where you’ll be asked to link up your Google and Spotify accounts. Once you prove that you aren’t a robot, you’ll be redirected to Google’s online store, where you can choose between four colors of Google Home Minis: Coral, Charcoal, Chalk, and Aqua. With Saver shipping, I was able to complete my purchase for a grand total of $0, and my completely free Google Home Mini will arrive in the next two weeks.
It's not likely you'll want to use Amazon Music's free tier over Spotify as your default service, given that it offers a very limited supply of music (roughly 2 million songs versus Spotify's.
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Plus, if you aren’t currently subscribed to Spotify Premium, but are considering jumping back on board, you may still be eligible for this deal: “You’re eligible to redeem a Google Home Mini from the Google Store at no extra cost if: you currently pay the full price for a Premium Student, Individual, or Family plan; or you successfully sign up to receive 3 months of Premium Individual for $9.99,” Spotify explains on its Comeback page for returning users.
So whether you already pay for Spotify Premium as an individual, a family, or a student, or you’re just thinking about paying for the service again for the first time in months, you can probably get a free Google Home Mini. That’s one easy gift taken care of for the holidays (even if you gift it to yourself)!
Through the Google Home speaker, you can control your music listening on Spotify with voice commands! Ask Google Home to play a song, and album, or a public playlist or one of your own private playlists. Google home works quite well with Spotify, giving you access to all your specific Spotify account content, just by asking. Hacked spotify download music.
To play Spotify music on your Google Home, link your Google account to your Spotify Premium account. See our post Spotify Setup on Google Home Speaker Instructions for details on how to do that. You must also connect your speaker to the internet via WiFi.
Google Home Spotify Commands List
Whether playing albums, songs, playlists, or genres, you can control playback with the Google Home Spotify commands that follow.
Google Home Spotify Commands to Play a Certain Song by a Certain Artist
Got a favorite song by a specific artist? Ask your Google Home Speaker to play that song from Spotify as in the following examples. The requests below play Fly Like an Eagle in Spotify, by the Steve Miller Band.
Caution
You may omit the artist name if no other song title, artist name, or playlist has that name. But you must add the artist qualifier if more than one item in Spotify has that name. Otherwise, Google Home may play the wrong song. In the Fly Like an Eagle case though, she does play the Steve Miller version. You get Steve Miller even though versions from other artists such as Seal are there also. https://xppdafp.weebly.com/spotify-free-concert.html.
Spotify Song Title by an Artist Request Examples
Google Home Spotify Commands to Play a Certain Album
You can request a certain album by a specific artist from Spotify, as follows. All tracks on that album then play, in the right order, from start to end.
You may also omit artist / group names for albums with unique names in Spotify. But to ensure that you hear what you wanted, state the album first, and then the artist. Why? Because many albums in the Spotify library have the same names as their artists. https://xppdafp.weebly.com/best-free-music-app-like-spotify.html.
Caution
But you may hear a short silence (inter-song gaps) in those albums with one long recording. They often subdivide these albums into tracks. Hiw to download songs in spotify. This makes finding certain songs in that recording easier. E.g. Live albums or certain studio recordings like Pink Floyd’s The Wall album do this.
Asking for track numbers within the album does not yet work.
Google Home Spotify Commands to Play a Group of Songs by a Certain Artist / Composer
Got a favorite artist or group? Ask Google Home to play all the songs by that artist that Spotify has, as in the following examples. Here, the following requests all result in the speaker playing the songs in Spotify by the Steve Miller Band.
Caution
The artist name you want could also be a song title. E.g. The group name Middle of the Road is also the title of a 1984 song by the Pretenders. So in this case, the smart speaker may again play the wrong song. To stop the confusion, just add the “songs by” phrase to the request, as follows.
![]() Spotify Play Artist Request Examples
Google Home Spotify Commands to Play a Spotify Playlist
Now perhaps you’ve created personal playlists in your Spotify account. Or you just want to play the public Spotify playlists already out there. E.g. Like the Spotify Teen Party playlist). Then to do that, ask Google Home to play them as follows. Just find the name of the playlist to play. Then ask her to play that playlist.
Spotify Playlist Requests by Playlist Name
Google Home Spotify Commands to Play a Certain Musical Genre
Just ask for the genre you wish. Then Google Home will play a bunch of songs from that genre from the Spotify albums that fit that genre.
No telling what you’ll get though. Unless that is, you’ve already tried this once so that you know what’s coming. Also, what you’ll hear will often change, as they add and tag new music on Spotify.
Spotify Play Genre Request Examples
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