2 Available Methods to Play Spotify on LENOVO Smart Clock

The Lenovo Smart Clock is more than just a clock. It has the Google Assistant built in, which allows you to set alarms, check the agenda, play tunes and control your smart home devices. And of course, you can play music on it.

If you want to play Spotify on Lenovo Smart Clock, you'll need to link your device to an active Google account and then access the compatible Spotify music service with your Spotify account. After that, it's simple to use your Assistant to play Spotify music from the Smart Clock.

Part 1. How to Play Spotify from Lenovo Smart Clock

If you wish to play Spotify Music from your Lenovo Smart Clock, you'll need to follow these steps to set up Lenovo Smart Clock and connect your phone or tablet with it.

How to Set up Lenovo Smart Clock

Step 1 Take the Lenovo Smart Clock out of the box and plug in the power adapter on the back side.

Step 2 On your phone or tablet, go to the Google Play or App Store to download and install the Google Home app. Once installed, open the Google Home app to sign in with your Google account.

Step 3 The app will show you a new Lenovo Smart Clock is nearby. Click to set it up.

Step 4 Follow the on-screen instruction until the setup is completed.

Step 5 You can now start your conversation with the built-in Google Assistant: "Hey Google" or "OK Google".

How to Connect Spotify to Lenovo Smart Clock

Step 1 On your phone or tablet, open the Google Home app. If you have set up Lenovo Smart Clock with the Google Home app, your Smart Clock will be displayed under the Basement section.

Tips: If you can't see Smart Clock in the Google Home app, please try to restart both the device and the Home app.

Step 2 Under the Basement section inside the application, find you Smart Clock. Tap on the "Play music" button on it.

Step 3 If the notification appears at bottom like "Update your media provider to play recommended music", click the SETTING button to the right of it. You can also open Settings from the Home screen of the application.

Step 4 The Assistant will use your default music provider when asked to play music. To play Spotify Music from the Lenovo Smart Clock, you'll need to set "Spotify" as the default one. Just scroll to "Spotify" under the "other music services" section to select it.

Step 5 Tap on the hyperlink icon to log in to your Spotify account.

How to Play Spotify from Lenovo Smart Clock

You can now play Spotify Music from the Smart Clock. With Spotify, you can listen to your favorite artists and albums, discover new music and enjoy ready-made playlists with hands-free. Ask your assistant:

• "Play Discover Weekly on Spotify"
• "Play 'Today's Top Hits' on Spotify'"
• "Show recommended music on Spotify"
• "Play boollywood music"
• "Play Queen"
• "Play Hot Country on Spotify"
• "Play my 'Discover Weekly' playlist on Spotify"
• ...

You can even make the Smart Clock as Bluetooth speaker.

How to Connect Smart Clock via Bluetooth

Step 1 Just say "Hey Google, please connect Bluetooth". Smart Clock will tell you the device name.

Step 2 On your phone or tablet, open the Bluetooth settings.

Step 3 Find and connect the Smart Clock in the Bluetooth menu.

Step 4 Open the Spotify app to play something and make sure the sound output device is the Lenovo Smart Clock. After that, the Smart Clock with take care of the rest.

Part 2. Fix: Spotify Not Working on Lenovo Smart Clock

However, sometimes this feature could be buggy, according to a Reddit user:

I started having this issue yesterday where when I ask it to play music from Spotify, it says "Sorry, something went wrong. When you're ready give it another try." It also does not show up as an option to cast to. I've tried resetting as well as unlinking/linking Spotify to no avail. It was working perfectly fine on Thursday. Is there anything else I could try?

Yes, there is. In today’s article, I will show you how to play Spotify on Lenovo Smart Clock without any glitches.

The reason could be from your Lenovo Smart Clock itself, Spotify or your network connection.

How to Fix Spotify Not Working on Lenovo Smart Clock

1. Full reset the Lenovo Smart Clock.

2. Power cycled your internet router.

3. Remove all references to the Smart Clock's IP addresses from your router.

4. Adde the Smart Clock to a specific 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi band.

5. Adde the Smart Clock to a specific 5Ghz Wi-Fi band.

6. Move the Smart Clock nearer to the router.

7. Bring the Smart Clock to another house with a different ISP and router.

If you still can’t fix the problem, then you might have to play Spotify songs through the Bluetooth connection. You can use the method in Part 1.

But if you still can’t play Spotify songs in this way, that’s likely because of your internet connection. And the best way to solve it is to download Spotify songs and then play them through Bluetooth offline. But that requires you to have a Spotify Premium account, and these songs can’t be played without Spotify. Don’t worry, here’s the best solution to play Spotify songs on Lenovo Smart Clock without Premium.

Part 3. How to Play Spotify on Lenovo Smart Clock without Spotify App

No matter you’re using the Google Assistant to play Spotify on Lenovo Smart Clock or the Bluetooth way, you’ll have to subscribe to Spotify Premium to get unlimited listening experience. But with the ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can directly download songs from Spotify and cast them through Bluetooth to Lenovo Smart Clock.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert and remove DRM from Spotify song files into 6 different formats like MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. All the original quality of the song will be kept after converting at 5X faster speed.

 

1Upload Spotify Songs to ViWizard

Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Directly drag and drop tracks from Spotify into the ViWizard interface.

2 Set Up Output Parameters

After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

3 Start the Conversion

Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.

4Play Spotify Songs on Lenovo Smart Clock without Premium

Now you can put all these songs into your phone and cast them to Lenovo Smart Clock without Premium. I'm sure you'll not run into any internet connection glitches anymore.

Bonus Tips: How to Set Alarm on Lenovo Smart Clock for Spotify Music

If you want to set a Spotify song as your Lenovo Smart Clock alarm, make sure you have the latest version of Lenovo Smart Clock and Spotify. You can see how to make an alarm for Spotify Music, then set the alarm on the Smart Clock.

How to Set the Alarm

Method 1:

Talk to the Lenovo Smart Clock. Say "Hey Google, set an alarm for 8 a.m."

Method 2:

Step 1 Swipe left on the home screen, then tap Create an alarm.

Step 2 Set the time, then tap the alarm to choose Alarm tone. After that, choose a ready-made tone for Spotify Music.

Step 3 Tap Done.

Method 3:

Step 1 Open the Clock app and tap an alarm you want to edit or tap + icon to create a new one.

Step 2 Tap the Sounds icon, and then tap the Spotify tab.

Step 3 If this is the first time for you to set Spotify music as alarm, you will need to connect Clock app to Spotify. Just tap Connect button to continue.

Step 4 After connected Spotify to Lenovo Smart Clock, you can start setting your favorite Spotify track as an alarm.