Cannot set as default player

[felipevigo]

Dear all,

I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920I) with Android 6.0.1 and I cannot set Spotify as default player on device. On Spotify app itself there's no available option to set as defalt app for anything.

I tried to remove the app (and clearing cache, data, checked for files and folders) and reinstalled and I still cannot set.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, Samsung limitation (yes, they do that sometimes) or whatelse.

Can somebody give me a light on this?

[user-removed]

Maybe this will help you out.

http://www.androidauthority.com/change-default-apps-android-2-633572/

[felipevigo]

I already tried that. Spotfy simple doesn't show as elegible for default app, even on this app that is described on link.

[Joe]

Is this for a bletooth connection? If so, this app should help.

[felipevigo]

It will help at somepoint.
My goal is, while I'm driving I can say "Ok Google, play music" and the system defaults to Spotify.
Not that I cannot say the samething with Spotify at end, but I think Android should allow me to set the app as system default for playing music.

[user-removed]

This video is made for Android N, but might help you out.

[felipevigo]

No deal guys. And I don't know if this is the app that is not advertising itself as music player, some Samsung modification or a bug in Android.

[Joe · Accepted solution]

As far as I know, there is no way to set Spotify as your default music app on android. I think I saw someone once say that when they removed all .mp3s from their device, "play music" did launch spotify. I haven't tried this myself but it may be worth a try.

Altrnativelythese work:

"OK Google play music on spotify" followed by "OK Google play"

"OK Google play Queen" on spotify"

"OK Google play Bohemian Rhapsody on spotify"

Probable genres etc work too.

[felipevigo]

There some people on web that says it's possible.
But it seems that this option needs to be added to the Spotify app itself.
I just tested on LG G3 with the same Android version and I cannot set as default too.
This indicates to me that the Spotify app is not being advertised to the system as Music Player.

[Listor]

Same on the Galaxy S7 Edge