Notion Music Widget: Add Spotify/Apple Music to Your Page

The good news is you don't need a third-party widget for this one, Notion embeds Spotify and Apple Music links natively. The part people actually struggle with is getting the embed to look intentional instead of like a random link someone pasted in.

Embedding Spotify

• Copy the share link for a playlist, album or track from Spotify.
• In Notion, type /embed on an empty line.
• Paste the Spotify link directly, Notion recognizes it and renders the player automatically.
• Resize the block, the compact player view usually looks cleaner than the full expanded one.

Embedding Apple Music

Same process. Copy the share link from Apple Music, use /embed in Notion, and paste it in. Apple Music's embed tends to render a bit taller than Spotify's, so plan the surrounding layout with that in mind before you commit to a placement.

Making it look like part of the page, not a link someone pasted

The player itself keeps its own styling, you can't recolor it to match your dashboard. What you can control is everything around it: give it its own clearly labeled section, keep the surrounding blocks minimal, and don't crowd it against unrelated widgets.

YouTube Music and other platforms

Notion's native recognition mostly covers Spotify and Apple Music cleanly. Other platforms, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Tidal, will often still embed if you use the /embed command directly rather than pasting the link on its own line, though the player that renders can look plainer than Spotify's. If the platform you use isn't recognized at all, a plain YouTube video embed of the same playlist is a reasonable fallback.

Autoplay, and why it usually doesn't work

Don't expect an embedded player to start playing the moment someone opens the page. Browsers block autoplay with sound by default, which is a browser-level rule, not something Notion or the widget controls. The player will sit there ready to go, someone just has to press play once. Worth knowing so you don't spend twenty minutes trying to fix something that was never going to work.

What to pair it with

A music player next to a clock and a soft color palette reads as a proper "study with me" or focus-session page. For the clock and calendar half of that setup, I use MonoEmbed's other free widgets, styled to match whatever mood the playlist is going for.

If you're building a focus or study dashboard around this, our productivity templates have layouts with dedicated space for exactly this kind of section, rather than squeezing a music player between unrelated blocks.