UK Spotify Premium family subscribers get a free Google Home mini

From 18 March to 14 May 2019, new and existing Spotify premium family subscribers in the UK can get a free Google Home mini, normally priced at £49. For deatails, please check https://www.spotify.com/uk/family/ .

Spotify premium costs $14.99 per month and allows up to 6 people residing at the same address access all the sweet Premium benefits. Listen to tunes on-demand, ad-free and offline. Each family member gets their own, unique Premium account. If anyone has Spotify already, they’ll keep all their saved music, playlists and recommendations.

Google Home Mini is a smart speaker that responds to your voice. Place it in any room and use it to play music on Spotify, get answers to questions, and control connected devices in your home. Related: Play Spotify music on Google Home

How to play Spotify music with Google Home Mini?

1. Set up your Google Home mini using the Google Home app.

2. In the app, link your Google and Spotify accounts.

3. Set Spotify as your default music service.

Now you can ask Google Home mini to play Spotify songs, just say "Ok Google, play Spotify", "Ok Google, play Peaceful Piano on Spotify" or "Ok Google, what song is this?".

What Spotify music can you play with Google Home Mini

Spotify Premium

If you have a Spotify Premium account you can play content on demand. You can hear specific songs/albums/artists along with music based on genre, mood or activity, Spotify’s curated playlists, and your personal playlists.

Spotify Free

If you don't have a Spotify Premium account, you'll hear a station of songs inspired by the song/album/artist or personal playlists you asked for. You can't hear specific songs, albums, artists or personal playlists on demand, but you can ask for music based on genre, mood or activity, or for Spotify-curated playlists.

How to play Spotify free on demand on Google Home Mini

You can play music that's stored on your mobile device (phone or tablet) or computer on Google Home using Bluetooth. This includes iTunes Music, Audible, Apple Music and personal playlists. So if you can save Spotify music to your mobile or computer, you can then play them on demand on Google Home. The question is: how to store music with Spotify free? Here we will show you a solution. You will need a tool called Ondesoft Spotify Converter, which allow you to easily download Spotify music to mp3 with either Spotify free or premium account.

Follow below steps to download and save Spotify music to your Mac/Windows.

Step 1 Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download and install Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Before you run it, please make sure that you have installed the latest Spotify on your computer. Then launch Ondesoft Spotify Converter, Spotify will be launched automatically.

Step 2 Add Spotify songs

Find the songs you want to download, then drag the song, album or playlist to the main interface of Ondesoft Spotify Converter. Or you can click the Add Files button, copy and paste the url of the song to the search box on the bottom of the program. Click the Add button, then songs will be added to the conversion list.

All songs in the playlist or albums will be checked by default. You are free to uncheck the tracks you don't want to convert.

3. Choose output settings (optional)

Click the gear icon on the top right corner to customize output settings. The default download format is M4A. It also supports downloading Spotify Music as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC and AIFF. You can also change audio quality, cover quality, filename format, etc. according to your needs.

Step 4 Start Converting

Click the Convert button to start downloading and converting songs. Wait for a few minutes, you can find all converted songs by clicking the History button.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify songs, albums or playlists in MP3 format. You can then transfer and play them on demand on Google Home using Bluetooth.