So when I ask Google to play my (insert custom playlist name here) through Spotify, it will register that I'm asking for a playlist, but it'll only play some community playlist instead of mine specifically. It's a a bit frustrating considering that Android Auto will of course prevent you from scrolling through your playlists to find the one you want to play. Is there some fix that can be done to make this work, or is this just really not implemented to properly work as of yet? Thanks.
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I have Google Play Music All Access and a premium Slacker Radio Account.
This happens whether I default Google Now to Google Music or Slacker
When I request it to play a song using "Ok Google Now" it shuffles the artists album rather than playing the specific song. It does this in Google Play music as well as Slacker depending on which I set the Google now Default to.
Examples:
I say "Play Rolling the Deep" and it will launch Google Now and say "Playing Rolling in the Deep by Adele" then google music will launch and it will just shuffle her album rather than playing the song.
or
Same thing happened when I tested "Sympathy for the Devil" it just played a random Rolling Stones Song, even though google now said "Playing Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones"
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is one of the reasons I wanted the touchless controls of this phone!
Moto support had me reboot into recovery and clear the cache. That fixed it.
...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?
invertedskull said:
...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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You can create "voice friendly" named playlists for those unique named artists and use voice to call up the playlists.
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I was surfing through web for several weeks for a thread specially for Google home mini users keeping music lovers in mind. I am a heavy music listener myself originally from India. But I am having a hard time to manage music with Google home mini including Google play music, Saavn , and gaana. I cannot play my playlists or create the same with these providers. I can tell Google " l like this song" and it will respond that I have noted you like this song. But after that I cannot access these lists anywhere. I want to discuss these things with similar users and want to found how they are using their Google home to their advantages.
Thanks
For me, "Add this song to my favorites", and "Play my favorite songs" has worked.
(I'm not sure if it's added songs I've just happened to listen to a lot to the same list, as often asking for a genre will simply play the most popular songs on youtube before I ask it to shuffle, leading to a number of songs that've had countless plays)
Hi,
I've been having some issues with my Google home mini, routines and Spotify playlists. I will share them here hoping someone knows how to resolve them or to tell me where should I post these bugs for the Google developers team to solve them. I could not find a direct way to reach them and I'm a heavy user so I think I could collaborate.
Issue 1: more than two commands not working
You once could create a Routine that went something like "play my x playlist in shuffle mode on my x speaker" in one command line. It did work but now the shuffle mode won't be read so the playlist will play in order.
Work around: set all speakers in a group, set that group as the predetermined speaker on Google home app, create a routine that sets specific volumes to each speaker in the group (so if you want only speaker 1 to play you set all other speakers in 0% volume), and only state "play playlist x on shuffle mode".
Issue 2: Playlist and their names not updating
If I create now a new playlist on Spotify (I have a premium account and set Spotify as the predetermined music player on Google home app) and say directly or create a routine saying "ok Google play my "new" playlist" it won't work.
The same issue happens when you rename an existing playlist. It won't find it.
At first I thought it was a cache problem, so I deleted the cache in the home app and once it did work but not it does not.
No work around for this other than don't rename you playlists but its ridiculous.
Do you know where the home mini saves its cache? Other than goggle home app?
Thanks!
Not sure if you have found ways to resolve your issues, however I've found some things concerning the playlist not being seen.
When I create any new playlists in Spotify, I've found they are default set to "private" and not "public". They used to be set to public as the default.
Once I go in and change them, I've been able to play new lists with little issue (besides names being recognized).
While I'm at work or out and about and using Spotify, it's not uncommon for me to get kicked off Spotify because my kids at home ask Google to play music. Our Google speakers default to my personal Spotify account - and since you can only play Spotify on one device at a time, it gives me the boot.
We have Spotify premium, and I have another generic account setup, but I can't seem to figure out how to link the Google devices to that other Spotify device. Anyone know how?