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I've tried Spotify, its great but their inability to upload your own music is a gamebreaker for me, since I listen to a decent amount of indie and obscure bands and songs
Apple Music allows this, and might be a better solution for you. A client is available on Android and Windows as well.
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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.…
Same here. I really wonder how these products sell. The most basic things dont work. And if they are confused, then for real. For about 2 years, when Siri happened to misunderstand the command "Call ..." it would answer "OK, calling you" and actually try to call my own number. This is so weird that it actually feels like someone wrote that piece of code to prank the user. If these things would actually work, I'd defi…
Because they’re currently better than nothing. My HomePod works 90% of the time. I can create specific scenes for the things she can’t quite figure out.
Being able to walk in to the kitchen and tell her to put the radio or the light or a specific album or a timer on is actually really amazing. Most of the time. Certainly amazing enough to suffer the times she doesn’t want to co-operate, because then I just do that myself which I would have done anyway.
It helps that the HomePod is also a great speaker in its own right, and that it’s one single cylinder with one cord. It’s a very tidy device.
My favorite misfeature is babbling. Used to be you could just say “off” to stop a misinterpreted command, which worked fine because the assistant didn’t used to babble. Now though, its own rambling follow-ups interfere with its ability to even hear you desperately saying “no! off! stop! shut up! cancel!”. And my new favorite, every command response ending with an unsolicited “BY THE WAY: $thing_i_did_not_ask_for”.
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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…
And when it does work, Siri likes to split your item into two entries. (e.g. "red salsa" ends up as an entry for "red" and an entry for "salsa") Also fun - you say something, the words you said show up on the screen, and then change into completely different words.
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> 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.
Minutes into the episode Twitter was full of people posting about how it was messing with everyone's smart speakers. Tech comedy gold.
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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.
YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…
When they bought Songza back in 2014 and integrated it into GP Music, I found their recommendations started to be much better Its as if they threw that all progress out with YT Music. I'm willing to give the service a few months to clean up major bugs and such and see how it is then, but I'm still looking for alternatives
Vaguely reminiscent of when Marco V released a track called "C:\ del *.mp3"[0] out of frustration towards mp3 rips. Still amusing to me that he didn't quite get the command right. [0] https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/1334...
The other day a song called S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264 by Blood Command appeared in my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought someone messed up, but no...that's the name of song!
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.
It's incredibly handy when cooking. "Hey Google set up a 15 minutes timer", "Hey Google how many teaspoons is in a cup?", etc while you have your hands dirty / busy.
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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.