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Can anyone get the "Play me some songs from [band name]/[album title]" to successfully start playing music through the Play Music app using Google Now/Touchless Control?
The best I can do is get it to return a search for the band/album in Play Music, despite that face that Google Now responds with "Playing Request", and acknowledges the correct band/album name I've said...
aside from this, if I tell Google Now to play, for example, "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance, it will acknowledge that I've said that specific song, but it will search Play Music for "Teenagers" and play the first hit, which is a song called "Teenagers" by Department of Eagles.
This is especially infuriating because in the new ads that Motorola just put out, they launch Play Music using Touchless Control and it works great! (can't post a link here since I'm new, but just youtube "lazy phone - touchless control")
any one else experiencing this issue?
I'm on a Moto X (duh) running the latest version of the Google Search app (2.7.9.789824) and Play Music (5.2.1204L.814012) .. I have "Play Music" checked in the Phone Search settings, but having it unchecked seems to return the same result.
thanks in advance for the help!
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nonotechnology said:
Can anyone get the "Play me some songs from [band name]/[album title]" to successfully start playing music through the Play Music app using Google Now/Touchless Control?
The best I can do is get it to return a search for the band/album in Play Music, despite that face that Google Now responds with "Playing Request", and acknowledges the correct band/album name I've said...
aside from this, if I tell Google Now to play, for example, "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance, it will acknowledge that I've said that specific song, but it will search Play Music for "Teenagers" and play the first hit, which is a song called "Teenagers" by Department of Eagles.
This is especially infuriating because in the new ads that Motorola just put out, they launch Play Music using Touchless Control and it works great! (can't post a link here since I'm new, but just youtube "lazy phone - touchless control")
any one else experiencing this issue?
I'm on a Moto X (duh) running the latest version of the Google Search app (2.7.9.789824) and Play Music (5.2.1204L.814012) .. I have "Play Music" checked in the Phone Search settings, but having it unchecked seems to return the same result.
thanks in advance for the help!
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I was able to get it to work after clicking the drop down menu next to the card to use play music. It did take me a few tries to complete.
bgeorger said:
I was able to get it to work after clicking the drop down menu next to the card to use play music. It did take me a few tries to complete.
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bgeorger, I've gotten this far as well, but are you saying that after that screen it sucessfully launches Play Music and begins playing "No Church In The Wild" (the first track from Watch The Throne)?
Superpopsss, glad I'm not alone in this. now we've just gotta find a fix!
I've been talking to someone on G+ who is running 4.3 on his Nexus 7 and this functionality works fine. (he's also on All Access, but I don't think that should affect this behavior)
maybe it's a bug in 4.2.2?
Same here, works fine on my '13 N7, N4, and GNex all on 4.3
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so can anyone running 4.2.2 get this to work?
Worked fine on my htc one on 4.2. It's an acknowledged bug as far as I know
nonotechnology said:
bgeorger, I've gotten this far as well, but are you saying that after that screen it sucessfully launches Play Music and begins playing "No Church In The Wild" (the first track from Watch The Throne)?
Superpopsss, glad I'm not alone in this. now we've just gotta find a fix!
I've been talking to someone on G+ who is running 4.3 on his Nexus 7 and this functionality works fine. (he's also on All Access, but I don't think that should affect this behavior)
maybe it's a bug in 4.2.2?
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It does auto play, however, it isn't a track off the actual album. It does seem to work just fine when you only specify a band.
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It does auto play, however, it isn't a track off the actual album. It does seem to work just fine when you only specify a band.
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Only specifying the band works for me up to the point where I still have to press the "play" button on Play Music. I mean, thanks Google Now, you opened the thing for me, and have it ready to run. But didn't I already ask to play it? I mean... that's what I thought when I said "play some Aerosmith" (btw, Gnow does have a hard time understanding "Aerosmith" )
Also not working for me
Using the Moto X on Rogers, and I'm having the same problem, but I'm one step further back.
The voice commands/google now won't bring up a "play music" card at all. I've tried "play ___", "listen to ____", etc. and all I get is a google search result with youtube links or music play store links to buy the music. It recognizes what I'm saying but there doesn't seem to be the functionality to play the music using voice commands as advertised. I've tried putting hard copies of the music in the "music" folder and that doesn't change anything. I've been through google now settings and moto voice commands settings but can't find anything to help.
Any suggestions? Otherwise everything works perfectly.
I have a big problem using this music playing functionality...
But.. My main problems are actually my own and not how the phone performs.
First of all, I can never think of an actual name of any song or sometimes even artist that I want to listen to. My brain just does not translate desires into words very well, but works fine when scanning through a list of names. But I think I can get over this and have it be of slightly more use.
What really limits my use of this function is the actual music I listen to.
I listen to a lot of power metal, punk rock, and other more obscure music.
I have been completely unable to get Google Now to recognize band names such as:
-Ayreon
-Kamelot
-Turisas
-Benuts
-Blackguard
-The Blaggards
-Cruachan
-Deathmole
-Dethklok
-Doomsword
-Eluveitie
-Falkenbach
-Forefather (GN always hears this as "for father")
-Heavatar
-Naio Ssaion
-Powerglove
-Power World
-Sirenia
-Skatalites
-Tyr
Surprisingly it recognized the bands Korpiklaani and Gojira.
That said, this is only a small segment of the music I have on my phone but it includes some that I listen to very often, and many of these artists are more readily in my mind.
I think it's extremely odd that I'll ask Google Now "What is Ghost Opera" and it'll come out and tell me that it is an album by Kamelot.
But, if I ask it to "Play Ghost Opera" it chooses to play a song with that title by Technomind, and I can't ask it to play the album or the song by Kamelot because Google Now always thinks I'm saying Camelot.
But, I do have a question for people that have gotten this to work... Does it ever actually queue up more than one song?
For instance I'll ask for it to "Play some songs from Voltaire", and it'll only queue up "When You're Evil" every time. It won't ever play another one of his songs even though this specific song is nowhere near the first one in any of his albums or playlist.
Can it play playlists if I create them or any of my defined "radio stations"?
I've had better luck saying "Stream (artist)" or "Stream (song) by (artist)"
No luck on queuing up more than one song, though. Saying "Stream (album) by (artist)" still just plays one track.
edit: saying "Stream (album) by (artist)" actually just takes me to the artist page, without playing the album. A shortcut, but not ideal. This is assuming that the title of the album is NOT also a title of a song. If that's the case, it just plays the song. Saying "Stream the album (album)" or "Stream the album (album) by (artist)" results in a google search.
It's hit and miss with me. Unfortunately it's a problem with Google Now. Google will need to fix it.
Khourya said:
Using the Moto X on Rogers, and I'm having the same problem, but I'm one step further back.
The voice commands/google now won't bring up a "play music" card at all. I've tried "play ___", "listen to ____", etc. and all I get is a google search result with youtube links or music play store links to buy the music. It recognizes what I'm saying but there doesn't seem to be the functionality to play the music using voice commands as advertised. I've tried putting hard copies of the music in the "music" folder and that doesn't change anything. I've been through google now settings and moto voice commands settings but can't find anything to help.
Any suggestions? Otherwise everything works perfectly.
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Khourya make sure in your "settings" for Google Now in "Phone Search" you have Google Music checked. Though it seems to have no affect for me, it may for you.
also try "play me some" or "stream" like some others in the thread were suggesting.
Dark, it's interesting you say it's an issue with Google Now. I think it's more an issue with Play Music. I've seen a lot of videos use Now to launch a random track when searching for an Artist, or play an Album, but it was all with the old (pre-white UI) Music app...
I find it hard to believe they know it's a bug when they're quite literally advertising the functionality we're all having trouble with in those new "Lazy Phone" ads...
In general I can get it to play music but it only actually started playing after I selected a few times that I actually want it to play music using Play Music instead of just searching for music to buy.
My bigger issue is actually getting Google Now to recognize me when I say band names that I know it can recognize.
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Khourya make sure in your "settings" for Google Now in "Phone Search" you have Google Music checked. Though it seems to have no affect for me, it may for you.
also try "play me some" or "stream" like some others in the thread were suggesting.
Dark, it's interesting you say it's an issue with Google Now. I think it's more an issue with Play Music. I've seen a lot of videos use Now to launch a random track when searching for an Artist, or play an Album, but it was all with the old (pre-white UI) Music app...
I find it hard to believe they know it's a bug when they're quite literally advertising the functionality we're all having trouble with in those new "Lazy Phone" ads...
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Google music is checked in settings and I've tried all permutations of the phrase, but I still can't even get the card to show up...
Very frustrating.. Guess I'll just have to keep on scratching my phone's hairy belly! (that was a lazy phone commercial joke just in case)
I'm on the verge of calling rogers/Google/Motorola..
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Mine works for specific songs perfect, but if I say to play songs plurally it limits it to one
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Khourya said:
Google music is checked in settings and I've tried all permutations of the phrase, but I still can't even get the card to show up...
Very frustrating.. Guess I'll just have to keep on scratching my phone's hairy belly! (that was a lazy phone commercial joke just in case)
I'm on the verge of calling rogers/Google/Motorola..
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I'm on rogers moto x as well. Same issues you are having. I even tried typing in "stream" or "play music" in Google now and the selected "phone" section and it couldn't find any results in my phone. Ridiculous.
Maybe because Google music isn't in Canada rogers?
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I'm on a different device but same problem. It doesn't seem to work at all for me. I have phone search set to search my music player but google now will always perform a web search. If I scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'phone' as what to search under after I searched I see my song there, but the automation part seems to be broke.
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I'm on a different device but same problem. It doesn't seem to work at all for me. I have phone search set to search my music player but google now will always perform a web search. If I scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'phone' as what to search under after I searched I see my song there, but the automation part seems to be broke.
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Nine out of ten times this is what it does to me too. Very upsetting day one with phone. I think this is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work. grrr
I got a moto x from sprint some days ago and i was trying to use touchless to play music like in the ads of motorola,but it doens't work i say the phrase of the example in google now and it only search in google,it recognize my voice and know what i'm saying but it doens't play,i tried with: "Play <songname>" "Play <songname> By <ArtistName>" "Play <songname> <ArtistName>" "Play <ArtistName> <songname>" "Play <ArtistName>" and too with all those and Listen To instead of Play
EDIT: Solved using hotspotshield (A proxy) maybe it has some country limitation
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I got a moto x from sprint some days ago and i was trying to use touchless to play music like in the ads of motorola,but it doens't work i say the phrase of the example in google now and it only search in google,it recognize my voice and know what i'm saying but it doens't play,i tried with: "Play <songname>" "Play <songname> By <ArtistName>" "Play <songname> <ArtistName>" "Play <ArtistName> <songname>" "Play <ArtistName>" and too with all those and Listen To instead of Play
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Touchless music controls are absolute crap at this point. They are significantly improved if you switch the music player called Shuttle.
1. Install shuttle
2. Tell google now to listen to ____
3. The google now screen will come up and it will have your command listed on it. Click the drop down that has the google play store icon and select shuttle music player instead
It doesn't work I installed it and tries without luck
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It doesn't work I installed it and tries without luck
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Try another song. The google voice controls for music playback are really spotty at this point. If it doesn't work for any song, that might indicate that something can still be done. If it doesn't work for just a single song, that is probably just an issue with that song.
Are the songs on your phone, or on Google's cloud service?
beelbeel said:
Try another song. The google voice controls for music playback are really spotty at this point. If it doesn't work for any song, that might indicate that something can still be done. If it doesn't work for just a single song, that is probably just an issue with that song.
Are the songs on your phone, or on Google's cloud service?
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i tried with various, some of them from google play music service,some of them from my local storage,and the same,only web search en youtube videos.
Hmm, I'm not sure what is going on there. Did you not have anything on the google now screen that was listed above the search results? There is usually something that shows an image of the artist and the app that it will execute the action with.
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Hmm, I'm not sure what is going on there. Did you not have anything on the google now screen that was listed above the search results? There is usually something that shows an image of the artist and the app that it will execute the action with.
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no,only search results appear.
i fixed it using hostpotshield (a proxy) maybe it have country limitations
I'm having trouble getting Google now on my Moto X to play music when I say "play x". It recognizes exactly what I say but then it just does a google search for the term. I know play music (the app) works and everything and from what I've read from around the internet seems to suggest that this functionality is not available in Canada. Is this true? Is there anyone from Canada who can use this feature? If so, wtf am I doing wrong?
Everything I have seen/read/tried suggests the play music feature does not work in Canada.
I've tried over and over and still no dice. You are looking at third party apps if you want voice control for music.
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Well that's a major bummer.
Has anyone found a better app for remote controlling your music.
the stock one is ok, but it would be nice to see the track listing.
Null
And maybe any good music programs to use with null rom, and non samsung phone?
akira8473 said:
Has anyone found a better app for remote controlling your music.
the stock one is ok, but it would be nice to see the track listing.
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I personally used M2D's manager app to send tasker intents from my watch to my phone and on the phone I have tasks for each control and use "Media Utilities" in the Play store to actually perform the actions as it has a tasker plugin. I also use it to send the currently playing song to my watch and display it with the Zooper widget. It's tricky and time consuming but there is a tutorial in the M2D thread in these forums.
Guys, please someone do this test, and let me know how long it takes to get to play a song in my playlist after saying "OK Google now...".
Based on this video, it takes such a long time, and I refuse to believe it's true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-HIQtgp4Q?t=4m54s
It's in minute 4 and 54 seconds.
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Guys, please someone do this test, and let me know how long it takes to get to play a song in my playlist after saying "OK Google now...".
Based on this video, it takes such a long time, and I refuse to believe it's true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-HIQtgp4Q?t=4m54s
It's in minute 4 and 54 seconds.
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mine actually loaded 2-3 seconds faster than whats on that video.....
Thanks you for the useful info!!!
Mine just opened Google and sat there. Even though the song is in my playlist. So....it didn't work at all for me.
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Mine just opened Google and sat there. Even though the song is in my playlist. So....it didn't work at all for me.
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Damn, this is a deal breaker for me
It seems touchless controls are not really quite there yet... maybe I'll just wait for the X2.
I mean, who puts the speaker in the back of the phone to be muffled when we lay the phone face up? Come on Moto, that just defeats the purpose of an active display, and good audio for us audiophiles ( I realize their original goal didn't have the best speakers ever in mind).
From what I've read, and being in Canada myself.....the OK Google now, play such and such only works in the U.S. for some silly reason.
Never got it to work on my X.
Made a tasker app tho that I can start with voice commands and it plays all my music on random. Good enough I guess.
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kj2112 said:
From what I've read, and being in Canada myself.....the OK Google now, play such and such only works in the U.S. for some silly reason.
Never got it to work on my X.
Made a tasker app tho that I can start with voice commands and it plays all my music on random. Good enough I guess.
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This is a nice tip!!!
I think the "OK Google now... play -this song-" may also only apply to the "Google My Music" app, which would also be a deal breaker,s ince most people want to have their local music playlist played by other software like PowerAmp...
I think you mean the "tasker" app, that is a paid app on the store, if so, I wonder of it can play specific songs called on by commands...
Thanks for your time!
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This is a nice tip!!!
I think the "OK Google now... play -this song-" may also only apply to the "Google My Music" app, which would also be a deal breaker,s ince most people want to have their local music playlist played by other software like PowerAmp...
I think you mean the "tasker" app, that is a paid app on the store, if so, I wonder of it can play specific songs called on by commands...
Thanks for your time!
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I don't know a lot about tasker really....I never use it. I just followed what someone else did and used tasker app factory to make an app to shuffle my music with one click....and used touchless to open it.
I'm sure there's a way to make it play a specific song....but it may require a separate app for each song. LOL
An app could be made in tasker to skip to next song I'm sure.
Probably a lot of possibilities with tasker, but I'm a tasker noob myself.
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Tasker is indeed a paid app, but is worth way more then it costs. Among other things, it can play a specific song by file name, or play an entire directory, random or not.
Also, many popular music players have plugins or intents that give tasker direct control.
The play store return policy is pretty limited for such an app, so Tasker's Dev has a one-week trial version on his website.
If you are rooted, there are a couple of different Xposed modules that help Touchless Controls work with Tasker. You can scavenge the commands as delivered to Google Now, or just have the trigger phrase notify Tasker and do your one voice recognition there.
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Damn it guys, why do you have to be so helpful?
Now I want to buy the X again to test all this out.
I'm a huge fan of Xposed, and new to tasker as well, so I want to check it all out now