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

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

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Post by chemeng »

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…

I first noticed this type of thing happening when "Ok Google, play Release Radar" started playing a "Releaseradar" album/single vs. my Spotify Release Radar playlist as it used to. Simply infuriating.

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

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Post by andruby »

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

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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.

The short version works well too. “Timer 8 minutes”

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

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Post by 3PS »

wincy wrote: post #71
reaperducer wrote: post #31

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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 tried the same and got frustrated. So I said “Siri shut up you piece of garbage” and she added “shut up you piece of garbage” to my grocery list for me. Very helpful. Also Siri is constantly having problems knowing if I’m talking to my watch or my iPhone, even if my phone is in my pocket.

> I said “Siri shut up you piece of garbage” and she added “shut up you piece of garbage” to my grocery list for me.

Perhaps it was just being passive-aggressive?

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

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Post by Macha »

dkonofalski wrote: post #140
reaperducer wrote: post #31

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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 wonder what the difference is. I not only am able to add stuff to my Groceries list 100% of the time but I also have multiple shopping lists so I can say "Add x to my Amazon list" or "Add x to my Costco list" and never have an issue.

I suspect the difference is "Is your accent common in the bay area?"

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

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Post by imheretolearn »

I recall a funny incident where I was having a slack call with a colleague and I said something on the lines of "Ok Google it". Their Google assistant was enabled and it repeated the last command which was very NSFW. I couldn't control my laughter and we had a nice little laughing break over it

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

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Post by renewiltord »

dylan604 wrote: post #111
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.

That is a great story. Honestly, I do intend to treat smart assistants that way. I can accept that they're imperfect and that they're tools that only work in certain ways. I can figure out a way to either make them be useful to me or abandon them if the way is too hard. I'm not asking for perfection.

The thing is predictability, though, and maybe handling the common use cases. It gets frustrating when they get worse. Kids, on the other hand, only get better at understanding you (though perhaps also better at frustrating you on purpose).

To put it simply, I'm happy to make myself perform incantations. I'll say "Ok Google, grooblepuff the bonkman" to get the thing to do the thing. This whole thing has made me understand why wizards and sorcerers chant Accio! and Sectumsempra! and shit like that because if they just said "Bring me my firebolt" no one knows how the AI that runs magic in the world would interpret that.

And you know someone who feels this strongly about the product is pretty bought into it. Like, if I didn't use it so much, I wouldn't be complaining this much.

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Post by Causality1 »

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

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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.

Yep. Google has been getting progressively worse at recognizing my words over the past two years. It's also started randomly capitalizing words that aren't proper nouns and seemingly has a blacklist of words that it clearly recognizes as speech but refuses to type such as "o'clock".

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

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Post by codetrotter »

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…

> Do these guys even use their product?

This is a question that I too ask myself daily with a lot of the software that I deal with and depend on.

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

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Post by MartinodF »

dorkinspace wrote: post #177
mathijs wrote: post #141

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And still no Chromecast support.

Do you mean youtube music has no chromecast support? Really?

It does have Chromecast support, I've used it at least on Android and on music.youtube.com. I can't vouch for iOS though!
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