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Alexa / Device Conflict / Family Plan

Hi all! 

 

I have a Spotify Family Plan and about 10 Amazon Echo devices around my house. 

 

Here's the problem I'm facing...

 

When I'm at work or in the car, I like to listen to Spotify on my phone. 

 

But my fiancee works from home, where she likes to listen to Spotify on our whole-home audio system via Alexa.

 

But because Alexa is signed in to Spotify via MY account, when she asks Alexa to play music, the music will stop on my phone. 

 

And sometimes, when I try to play music on my phone, the app is already connected to Alexa, so whatever I want to play plays instead at home and startles my fiancee. 

 

Since there are only two of us on this family plan, I first thought about creating a third "house" account for Spotify under my family plan to hook up to Alexa. But if I do that, then I won't have access to my private playlists via Alexa, and I also won't be able to use my phone to control the audio playing via Alexa - or start playing audio on the Echo speakers using Spotify Connect from my phone. 

 

How do I solve for this? Thanks! 

 

Brian 

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