2 Spotify Family Accounts Controlling One Amazon Echo

[scruzloose33]

I have Spotify for Family and my wife and I each have our own Spotify accounts under this family account. We have the Spotify app installed on our two iPhones and are trying to use Spotify Connect to control a single Amazon Echo Dot in our house (not at the same time). The problem is that as soon as one iPhone uses Spotify Connect to connect to the Echo, the other iPhone can no longer see the Echo as an available device for Spotify Connect without unlinking and reconnecting to the Echo Dot (thereby causing the other iPhone to lose the ability to connect to the Echo). Is the Amazon Echo seeing the two Spotify accounts as separate and causing the Alexa link to one account to prevent the other from accessing it? Is there any good workaround other than dropping the Family account, sharing a username, and just never using Spotify on two devices at the same time?

[BoredFish]

This is still not a feature. I have nearly the exact same situation. After extensive searching, the only work-a-round worth using is to ask Alexa to 'Spotify Connect'. This will turn on the Echo bluetooth as visible; from there you can use your Spotify app on phone or PC and through the 'Devices Available' menu at the bottom of Now Playing you can choose Echo as the playback device. Essentially this is using the Echo as a very expensive, over-qualified bluetooth speaker. Now how we want it but it does work for now.

Here are two other posts I found with the same basic request:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Amazon-Echo-Multiple-Spotify-Accounts-for-Amazon-Echo/id...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Amazon-Echo-Connect-multiple-Spotify-Accounts-to-Amazo...