Amazon finally lets Echo play Spotify or Pandora by default

Amazon's Echo speakers have a ton of smart capabilities, but until recently, playing music from any service other than Prime Music required telling the device which service to use each time. Now, users may have noticed an option to set Pandora or Spotify as its default music player. If you have one of the Alexa-connected devices, then you can go into its control app on the web or a mobile device and look under settings to switch the default away from Amazon. Once it's set, just talk normally to the speaker, "Amazon/Alexa play (artists/song/etc.)" and it will play from the proper service.

The option has apparently been available for a few weeks, with some users noticing its appearance as early as May. There's a full list of supported commands for Spotify available on its website, while Pandora has more limited instructions here. It shouldn't take long to get used to either way, and can provide a few tunes to play in between Prime Day shopping binges.