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I'm relatively new to the scene, but loving my Nexus One. Unfortunately, there's one thing that I am having trouble finding - a music player app that lets me browse by genre tags.
I use MediaMonkey to organize my music collection and sync it over to my N1 - this works awesome. However, when I listen to my music, I listen like you would an FM radio, i.e. 'I'm in the mood for Country music', rather than a specific artist or album. Annoyingly, I have yet to find a music player that lets me do this.
Has anyone found one? I know the HTC Sense UI music player lets you browse by genre, but I really don't feel like junking up my N1 just to get this small feature.
Not really a solutions, but what I did was create playlists for each genre I have. Then I can just use random shuffle on said playlist that I am in the mood for.
Mixzing........
Check out Meridian player. You can play by Genre in that app.
blablum said:
Mixzing........
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Brilliant. I don't know why I hadn't checked Mixzing out before - I'd read about it, but someone said it was something else maybe. Who knows - either way, it works. Thanks!
Hi all,
I have not been able to find any way to control the Google Music or any other application from the watch. I was expecting not being able only to launch the music application from it, but also to control the volume or to switch the song.
I have found in Google Play Store applications like this (trial and then allow you to purchase the license):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barkside.music
If there is no native way to do this, i really cannot understand as i see this one of the most logical applications to use from the watch.
Cheers.
You can play, pause, skip forward and back tracks with the Google Play Music app and Android Wear directly.
When playing music it should automatically display on the watch.
If not, check and make sure you haven't muted the app.
Music Boss works for most players.
nxt said:
You can play, pause, skip forward and back tracks with the Google Play Music app and Android Wear directly.
When playing music it should automatically display on the watch.
If not, check and make sure you haven't muted the app.
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I haven't muted the application. The strange thing is that just in the moment i hit the play button from the phone (Sony Xperia Z3 with Android KitKat 4.4.4) the notification for the music appears, but hides immediately. Maybe its an issue from my phone.
Thank you very much for the quick answer .
BM226 said:
Music Boss works for most players.
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Thank you, i will try to continue searching the reason why the Google Music default notification disappears immediately, but if not, i may try Music Boss.
requiem2es said:
Thank you, i will try to continue searching the reason why the Google Music default notification disappears immediately, but if not, i may try Music Boss.
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I'm trying to determine the benefit of Music Boss. I have used it with the 3 main audio apps I tend to use, all of which notify to my watch (TuneIn Pro, Sirius, and Google Play Music). They are set up in Music Boss as well. So when any of them are playing, I have two different cards - one for the app itself and one for Music Boss. I can't seem to see how Music Boss gives offers anything beyond the separate apps, other than a common interface. Can anyone with more experience using this app tell me what i'm missing? Thanks!
same here, I found that android wear supports quite a few music apps out-of-the-box.
like vanilla music - they havent released a wear-related update afaik, but when I play music with the app it shows up as a card on my phone with play-pause and I can swipe into a next-previous-vol up-vol down screen
Sony Walkman, Google Music and Spotify works on my watch. No need for Music Boss or anything. Phone is Z2.
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I finally found the problem. Sony Xperia has a free application called SmartKey:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.extras.liveware.extension.smartkey
With this application it is possible to assign extra functions to the button to answer calls in the headphones.
Anyway, this application was interfering with the SmartWatch option to show the controls in the watch graphic interface. Removing it or disabling it solves the problem.
Thank you very much for the help .
Hi,
Everytime I play a song in the Music/Walkman app it chops off the last second of the song. This is pretty annoying if the song doesn't fade out at the end.
For example Bon Jovi - It's My Life. In Walkman app it's 3:42 long and in other music apps it's 3:43 long.
Anyone know a fix?
Thanks
Everytime i use a voice command to play a song, Google play music is always the default app, even when im already in another music player such as Spotify.
Is there any way to use voice commands for other apps? (non-Google)
You have to specify the name of the app if you want something other than Google music. So say "play x song by y artist on Spotify"
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Can you request personally created playlists? Due to the 6 click restriction, I can't access around 75% of my music I need those playlists!
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You have to specify the name of the app if you want something other than Google music. So say "play x song by y artist on Spotify"
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Thanks, ill try it out next time in the car.
jonboyuk said:
Can you request personally created playlists? Due to the 6 click restriction, I can't access around 75% of my music I need those playlists!
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Yes, i've done it a few times. I have a custom playlist on my Google Music called "retro synth mix" and I just tell it to "Play retro synth mix". This probably requires you to name the playlist in a unique way like i did so it doesn't mix up with any existing song/artist or pregenerated playlists.
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Yes, i've done it a few times. I have a custom playlist on my Google Music called "retro synth mix" and I just tell it to "Play retro synth mix". This probably requires you to name the playlist in a unique way like i did so it doesn't mix up with any existing song/artist or pregenerated playlists.
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I've had problems with playlists myself. I have several playlists by artist name where I just dump all their songs in there so I don't have to scroll through every artist in my library to find them.
I don't think Google recognizes the phrase "playlist" because if I say "play playlist x" and x happens to be the name of an artist, it will start playing that artist.
Usually that wouldn't necessarily be an issue since it will play what was in the playlist anyway, but in some cases, the artist changed band names but I still put all of their songs under that artist name. So the songs under the other band name don't get played in that case.
I changed the name of that one playlist to something unique and it played it just fine the next time. Doing that to over 80 playlists though will get annoying.
I also have my playlists songs sorted by album or year and if you say "play artist" I think it just starts playing songs in alphabetical order.
Google has some work to do with their media player if they want people to use it exclusively. Right now, it's pretty bare bones and frustrating to use.
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mkygod said:
Everytime i use a voice command to play a song, Google play music is always the default app, even when im already in another music player such as Spotify.
Is there any way to use voice commands for other apps? (non-Google)
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Hi,
Who knows how to use voice commands with TuneIn Radio? And how to select between one "media" App (Google Music) and another (TuneIn Radio)?
Thank you!
Google voice should understand the term "PlayList" so "Play PlayList Home" is different then "Play Home" (Home being the name of a song)
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Thanks, ill try it out next time in the car.
Yes, i've done it a few times. I have a custom playlist on my Google Music called "retro synth mix" and I just tell it to "Play retro synth mix". This probably requires you to name the playlist in a unique way like i did so it doesn't mix up with any existing song/artist or pregenerated playlists.
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jonboyuk said:
Can you request personally created playlists? Due to the 6 click restriction, I can't access around 75% of my music I need those playlists!
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help me. i have the same problem!
gbrasil said:
help me. i have the same problem!
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I think all you need to do is say "play x" and if x is the name of a playlist, it will play it. Keep in mind that x has to be a unique name and can't contain any special characters.
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ireknole said:
Keep in mind that x has to be a unique name and can't contain any special characters.
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That could be funny
ireknole said:
You have to specify the name of the app if you want something other than Google music. So say "play x song by y artist on Spotify"
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Yes, there is a Tasker plugin by @joaoapps called AutoSpotify
http://joaoapps.com/
Maybe I'm being stupid but I don't see AutoSpotify anywhere?
zzEvilGeniuszz said:
Yes, there is a Tasker plugin by @joaoapps called AutoSpotify
http://joaoapps.com/
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ireknole said:
I think all you need to do is say "play x" and if x is the name of a playlist, it will play it. Keep in mind that x has to be a unique name and can't contain any special characters.
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Nice idea - but I've tried it so many times and it doesn't work. Just a simple one of "play christmas".
jonboyuk said:
Maybe I'm being stupid but I don't see AutoSpotify anywhere?
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It's in beta. You have to join the developers Google + community and then request to become a tester,
https://plus.google.com/communities/110193399489813640793
AutoSpotify is one of the AutoTools apps. There are several.
jonboyuk said:
Nice idea - but I've tried it so many times and it doesn't work. Just a simple one of "play christmas".
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I should have mentioned that the playlist voice search only seems to work in Google music. I have a playlist called "Christmas" and it will play it when I ask.
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ireknole said:
You have to specify the name of the app if you want something other than Google music. So say "play x song by y artist on Spotify"
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It's important that your app is designed to recognize Google voice commands. Many are not. Pulsar Music Player recognizes OK Google commands, so:
"OK Google"
"open Pulsar"
After the app opens, OK Google listens for other commands.
"play [song] on Pulsar"
Mentioning the artist isn't necessary but mentioning the app is. Unfortunately, Play was the only command OK Google obeyed for Pulsar. No Stop, Pause, etc.
mkygod said:
Everytime i use a voice command to play a song, Google play music is always the default app, even when im already in another music player such as Spotify.
Is there any way to use voice commands for other apps? (non-Google)
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The "OK Google" syntax for 3rd party music player voice commands is:
“Listen to [song] on [music player app]”
or
“Play [song] on [music player app]”
In practice I've found the “Listen to” command to have a higher accuracy rate.
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The "OK Google" syntax for 3rd party music player voice commands is:
“Listen to [song] on [music player app]”
or
“Play [song] on [music player app]”
In practice I've found the “Listen to” command to have a higher accuracy rate.
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Man, I REALLY wish this were true, but it's just not. I've tried everything and clearly I'm doing something wrong. If I go into Android Auto OR use the "Hey Google" moniker to summon the assistant, and then say, "Listen to playlist newly added on shuttle music player" it returns with "I can't find newly added on shuttle music player on Spotify, but you can ask me to play it on one of your other apps."
Holy HELL that's annoying. She tells me she can play it on one of my other apps, but NOWHERE can I find info on how to make this happen.
In the Assistant app, I see under Music where I can select my default music service choices (YouTube Music, Google Play Music, Spotify and "No default provider"), and by default it was set to Spotify. I've since tried "No default provider" with the same results. I do not see anywhere that you can specifically select which music player application you'd like the voice to respond to. Does anyone have any insight into what I'm doing wrong??
Any help is MUCH appreciated. I'm usually driving out in the country with sporadic service or have already hit my throttle limit and trying to play all my local media instead of streaming everything.
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I've tried everything and clearly I'm doing something wrong.
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The "OK Google" commands won't work unless the app specifically supports integration with Google Assistant commands. Most music apps are currently not compatible with voice commands.
...does anyone know of a music app that will run in Android Auto, AND will allow full music library browsing (by artists, albums or genres) through the touchscreen interface? Voice alone is not cutting it due to a great many music artists use unique names that Google cannot recognise.
Google Play Music in AA will not let us browse artists, albums or genre through the touchscreen interface. We only get the "lucky" mix, recent activity or playlists. And playlists are really not useful for a couple reasons... Firstly, Google forces you to have 2 default playlists it thinks you will like, and then browsing playlists is limited to 11 (including the aforementioned 2, so really it's 9). Once you get to the 11th playlist you are blocked from scrolling further with a safety message. Super frustrating. So don't waste your time making more than 9 playlists!
I know doubleTwist says that you can browse by artists, but you get a similar safety message prohibiting you from scrolling further than 10 or so.
Any chance an awesome XDA dev has made of modified version of AA that will ignore these safety blocks? Or does anyone know of a music app that will give us full music library browsing through the touchscreen interface?
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...does anyone know of a music app that will run in Android Auto, AND will allow full music library browsing (by artists, albums or genres) through the touchscreen interface? Voice alone is not cutting it due to a great many music artists use unique names that Google cannot recognise.
Google Play Music in AA will not let us browse artists, albums or genre through the touchscreen interface. We only get the "lucky" mix, recent activity or playlists. And playlists are really not useful for a couple reasons... Firstly, Google forces you to have 2 default playlists it thinks you will like, and then browsing playlists is limited to 11 (including the aforementioned 2, so really it's 9). Once you get to the 11th playlist you are blocked from scrolling further with a safety message. Super frustrating. So don't waste your time making more than 9 playlists!
I know doubleTwist says that you can browse by artists, but you get a similar safety message prohibiting you from scrolling further than 10 or so.
Any chance an awesome XDA dev has made of modified version of AA that will ignore these safety blocks? Or does anyone know of a music app that will give us full music library browsing through the touchscreen interface?
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No, this is a safety feature baked into android auto. App developers cannot bypass it, they can only make their apps better designed to work with it.
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*sad face*
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*sad face*
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You can create "voice friendly" named playlists for those unique named artists and use voice to call up the playlists.
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