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

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Post by princevegeta89 »

synunlimited wrote: post #200
princevegeta89 wrote: post #151

"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!

You can say "Hey Google" now which I find much easier to say. Would be nice if you could rename it though.

Two words seem always worse than one in my point of view

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Post by xapata »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #321
jen729w wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Siri (HomePod) was getting confused with my “turn everything off” incantation, so I’ve changed the name of the ‘scene’ and now when we leave the house we instruct her to “PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN”. Because coffee is for closers.

I had to laugh out loud. I suddenly envisioned a future where we slowly developed an arsenal of such workarounds for the flawed automation creeping into every aspect of private and public life, where it reached a point where people just accepted that that's the way things are done. My grandchildren naturally yell "put that coffee down" when leaving the house, because that's just how you turn off everything. Sure ther…

There's already a host of those artifacts in other technologies. Ctrl-Alt-Del, for one.

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Post by the_af »

drivebycomment wrote: post #294
the_af wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most "Ok Google" assistance feels like a gimmick to me, but here's something very simple I'd love to have working: I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone when cooking, I even built a cardboard stand for my phone for this reason. What I want is for YT to respond to these voice commands: - Pause video. - Play video. - Rewind 10 seconds. - Skip the (expletive) ad Sadly, this doesn't work. And it's the only voice assistanc…

"Hey Google pause/unpause youtube" and "Hey Google skip/rewind 30 seconds on youtube" work on my android phone. So I don't know why you say it doesn't work.

They don't in mine. What Android version do you have? What phone model? Mine is a Galaxy S8.

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Post by jeffrallen »

gorkish wrote: post #36
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…

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.…

Your dog would like you to know that he is most certainly NOT as stupid as a computer.

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Post by kart23 »

LeonB wrote: post #301
robotnikman wrote: post #206

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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

Spotify does let you upload your own music. (I’m a paying customer though so you might need that.) Overall I’m very happy with Spotify but experience has shown that within a few years it’ll begin the slow and unstoppable turn towards Villainy.

Just tried it. My experience might be abnormal, but it seems glitchy and slow. A playlist that I already created with my offline songs synced with my phone, but playlist said 0 songs. No error messages, very unintuitive. Had to create a new playlist and add the songs again, still wasn't showing. Relaunched spotify on both devices two times and it finally showed up. And this is for ~20 songs. I wouldn't want to use this method on a big library.

Also, Spotify doesn't upload your music for streaming, its just a sync between your phone and computer that have to be on the same wifi, and keeps the songs downloaded on your phone. Wouldn't work for a collection bigger than your phones storage. I wouldn't even compare this to GPM.

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Post by disillusioned »

warp wrote: post #231
ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #174

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It's 2020 and that's still everything virtual assistants are good for. It's kind of sad, really.

I've had great success with the Google smart speaker with "Hey Google, turn off the Living Room TV". I do have to specify "Living Room TV", even though the speaker and chromecast are configured to be in the same room, it still just turns off a bedroom tv if I'm not specific about which tv. Also "Hey Google, turn off the Xbox" works, because I linked that at some point. So not just timers! ;)

There's a setting in Google Home where you can alias which TV a given speaker is paired to as its default so you don't have to name the TV. If you have a device _named_ TV, that goes out the window, though.

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Post by kseifried »

Try getting an Alexa/Siri or whatever to play "Radio" by Rammstein. Come back when you're done listening to random top 40 radio or being told there is no Rammstein radio station and click the link below to hear the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI

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Post by goopthink »

gorkish wrote: post #36
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…

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.…

> 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.

I think magical incantations is a perfect way to think about it. Using voice assistants feels more like the land of Harry Potter than the land of technology we live in. It's the flipside of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

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Post by evan_ »

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #43

Spotify's mobile app is honestly one of the worst f'in apps I have ever used. I have a family plan and both my wife and I have the same issues. First, Spotify has no idea how to pipe its playlists to Alexa and Google ... so you can't ever seem to get either to play playlists. Second, Spotify randomly decides sometimes that it won't connect to the Internet, even when your phone has a 4G connection and everything else…

If you say "OK google play spotify playlist xxxxxx" it should work.

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Post by judge2020 »

freedomben wrote: post #256
ortusdux wrote: post #207

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The problem is, OP already did this. So did I. How much in-fighting is there at google that they couldn't just port over the data? Right now I'm pissed that Google tv doesn't have a working account switcher. If my wife watches music videos it retrains my YouTube music. Also, youtube music sucks when it comes to spotty connections and file management. I have fiber at work and home, unmetered 4g, and 100gig free space…

Could not agree more. Even little stuff like my son who is on my family plan. He used Google Play Music all the time with no problems. When they forced us to move to YT Music, now it won't let him get the app because he's too young and YT isn't allowed. So I either have to give up all the parental controls that I need and use, or he can't access the family plan music subscription that I pay for and used to have with…

Unfortunately the problem with self-hosting these things is actually obtaining the content (mainly regarding movies since iTunes song purchases haven't been DRM protected for a long time). Getting the right set-up for removing DRM from your uhd/hd blu-rays is hard since hardware is constantly being updated (you might have to purchase second-hand blu-ray readers), and downloading them is technically illegal even if you have the physical media - not that the FBI is going to indict you for having a personal media library. I imagine books have the same issues if you're trying to get unencrypted digital versions of them.
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