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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by dylan604 »

renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

Think of the assistants as young children. As a reference, someone I know spent some time in Miami with his wife and 2 young kids. After some time, the young son told his dad that he wanted to go back to "yourhammy". The dad eventually decoded "yourhammy" was the kid's interpretation of Miami as My-hammy. Your Likes => My Likes reminded me of that story.

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Post by rorykoehler »

Every time this topic comes up on here the comments are full of complaints about 1) privacy and 2) broken ux. I have to ask why do you even bother? I’ve never once thought I wish I didn’t have to pick up my phone got 5 seconds to do something simple.

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Post by baldeagle »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #47
reaperducer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…

Siri is hit and miss, but setting timers (for cooking) always works. > Hey Siri, set a timer for 8 minutes. > Ok. 8 minutes and counting.

4 minute timers are hard. I normally drop the ‘for’ and it gets super confused. “Set a four minute timer”

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

reaperducer wrote: post #31
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…

I don’t use Siri for much, and I certainly don’t have it always listening. But I did hack out a useful Shortcut to record my blood pressure and heart rate to Apple Health.

I say, “Add blood pressure 120 over 80 plus 60.” Then I use the shortcut to parse the string on the / and +, and record it to Health.

The hard part was finding delimiters that Siri would consistently record as a single character. That and realizing I needed a manual review step to make sure Siri didn’t happily pump garbage into my logs.

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

cwmma wrote: post #97

My wife used to always says "Hey Google Play Smooth Jazz" when we got a google home, so since it was hooked up to my spotify, I made a new playlist called "Smooth Jazz" that simply contained "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

Maybe Careless Whisper too while it's at it.

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Post by throwaway889900 »

woodgrainz wrote: post #68
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

For those uninitiated, PEBKAC = problem exists between keyboard and chair, aka user error.

Also: ID10T error, Layer 8 issue, etc.

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Post by david_allison »

untog wrote: post #27
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

It feels like a trope to even say it but it amazes me how badly Google have handled the transition from Google Play Music to YT Music. For me YT Music is an inferior experience in every single way.

YT Music isn't yet supported in my country.

Inferior is much better than "we'll delete your music library on an undisclosed date in December".

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Post by isaacimagine »

renewiltord wrote: post #37
gorkish wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my experience with any 'smart assistant' product that is or ever has been. It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to. Overall though it's simply not worth the effort which is probably why I end up using these overwhelmingly complex devices only for their most mundane functions like timers and getting the weather.…

That's the worst thing. It used to work well for me.

Same. It's been getting less smart over time.

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Post by tolbish »

jaynetics wrote: post #76
slg wrote: post #49

The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music". The bit would be much more effective if the album was just named "Music" and the tracks various genres. However then the fact that the name is a bit isn't even noticeable. There is a weird balancing act between the effectiveness of art and making it clear that what you are doing is art at all. This…

> The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music" the next step for it to go really viral would be to make the album consist only of various generic voices saying "ok google play ok google play music".

South Park did something like that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_kQJiogKCE

It's South Park, so the nsfw should be implied.

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