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control deezer on phone via alexa with sony headphones

  • February 15, 2026
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I am on the free month at the moment and if I cancel or not depends on the answer from here.

I have a Android phone, with Alexa as the assistant, and a pair of Bluetooth Sony headphones. When I use Amazon Music I can control it via either saying Alexa or pressing a button on the headphones.  So Alexa, play 80s music or something like that. Can't seem to do it with Deezer, I started Alexa and Deeezer apps up, but still don't work.

Am I missing something or is it not possible?

It works okay on my Echo units at home, but that is a different thing.

I have been using Amazon prime music for a few years, but decided I wanted a bit more choice in the music I play, Deezer is a bit cheaper than the others, if i go for a 12-month plan. 

 

Also, I noticed that some of Deezer stuff, don't seen to be as good sound quality wise as Amazon Music when played on my Echo units, I know Echo units are not the best speakers, but they are fine for what I need. Just wonder why the difference.

 

Thanks for any help 

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GropplerZorn
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  • GropplerZorn
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  • February 15, 2026

Hello there ​@Adrian47uk 

I have a Google Pixel phone and use Google Assistant to control all of the functions you’ve described while listening to Deezer on my wireless Bluetooth headphones. I imagine you’re using Alexa because of Amazon Music, but I can’t think of any reason why I would use Alexa as the assistant on my Google phone.

Sound quality-wise, some of the newer gen Echoes (and the Echo Studio for sure) support CD-quality audio, but Prime Music doesn’t offer that. Deezer does.

 In my experience (as you mentioned) Echoes aren’t the best. I would look at your speaker settings in the Alexa app and try to tune them a bit.

At the top tier, Amazon Music does offer some songs in UHD, which Deezer doesn’t, but only the Echo Studios support it, and I’d be genuinely surprised if you could tell the difference on a fairly basic, smaller smart speaker.

Best of luck and enjoy your music.

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    • Adrian47uk
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    • February 16, 2026

    Thanks for the reply.

    The reason I am using Alexa on my phone is because I have my smart home stuff set up on it, so I can turn on heating and my coffee machine with it, while I could do that with Google Assistant, maybe if it works, I need to set it up, also Google Assistant is changing to Gemini and no way to stop it eventually, I don’t want Gemini on my phone.

    As for the sound, Amazon Music just seems to have more oomph on the speakers, I am not expecting Audiophile quality on the Echo speakers, most of them are Echo dots, the living room is a fourth gen Echo.

    A lot of the stuff I listen to is older music, so I don't expect it to be up to the quality of modern stuff. 

     

    I have another 2 weeks on the trial, to try and get it to do what I want.

    Again, thanks for the reply

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