Using Jelly Beans, I'm saying "play take me away"
"play believe"
it some times looks it up from the music in the phone and other times it goes and searches the web. how to force it to play the music file in the phone?
Also, lets say I have a playlist titled "running mix", when I say "play running mix", it automatically searches the web, it isn't figuring this out at all.
Any clues on how to make it play the music in the phone?
PeritoX said:
Using Jelly Beans, I'm saying "play take me away"
"play believe"
it some times looks it up from the music in the phone and other times it goes and searches the web. how to force it to play the music file in the phone?
Also, lets say I have a playlist titled "running mix", when I say "play running mix", it automatically searches the web, it isn't figuring this out at all.
Any clues on how to make it play the music in the phone?
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Use "Listen to" to get it to play music from the Play Music app. "Listen to Running Mix" should play that playlist. If you say "Play" it will do many things, one of which includes pulling up YouTube videos, iirc.
Good luck with using it though, as it's still pretty brainless as far as I can tell. For instance, it doesn't handle stuff like "Listen to the song Rammstein by Rammstein" so it's absolutely impossible to hear that song using voice command, since it will always choose a matching artist over a song.
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Greetings. Im hoping someone might be able to help me with a very annoying problem im having.
I have somewhere around 2000 music tracks, all of which are uploaded to Google Music. Ive had GMusic since they first announced the beta and i love the fact that my entire library is everywhere I go. I also love that i can download the tracks directly on my phone, from my phone.
However using the app to play music is horrible. In the past i used poweramp, which is a wonderful player. My main problem with Google Music is it audibly cuts the power from the headphone jack in between tracks, so when i have it hooked up to my car stereo i hear a pop when the track changes... which annoys me to utter hell. On top of that it behaves weirdly some times, for example i had it set to shuffle all the other day, and it would stop on every song, and i would have to hit play manually to go to the next song.
What i would like to do is go back to using PowerAmp, but be able to manage my music as easily as i do with GMusic. Problem is that, PowerAmp doesnt see the music i download from the GMusic app and the one time it did, all the meta-data wasnt there. So all poweramp said was "Unknown track 1".
The other side of the problem is managing it on my computer. Since i bought music from Itunes and Google Music, keeping everything organized has become a nightmare(i have a number of compilations, and when you download the music from google music, it organizes it by artist not by the album). Which is why i dont want to have to manually move files to my phone. Ive tried WinAmp and Double Twist, and both have their annoyances. I was wondering what other people do, maybe someone can make my life easier.
subsonic, streams from your PC, no need to upload it to the cloud and it the UI is not bad either. it can also cache your streams for offline play
Hey All:
I'm having an issue with Google Now's "Listen To" command (likewise "Play" or "Play Music"). These commands only direct Now to do a search. I've made sure that Play Music is selected as a search source (as well as Winamp and Media Monkey), but the phone insists on web searches. Any tips on how to force it to behave the way it's supposed to (i.e. search my phone and play the requested song or artist)?
I'm in Canada (though with a valid Play Music account with ~2,000 songs uploaded); I don't know if that's part of the problem.
I've tried clearing the data for Google Search as well. Running the latest Google Search and 4.3.
Thanks for any help!
--Databoy2k
Mmmm, thats wierd. I don't think the amount of tracks on Play Music is a problem at all. I have a little bit under 2k songs in there as well and It prompts me with the option to select my music player (in this case spotify). The web search comes after the song hit. I can't say its 4.3 either, though I'm still rocking 4.2.2
Here is my Google Search Version: 2.6.7.721924.arm
Try uninstalling and reinstalling Google Search maybe that will do the trick. As a last resort I could pull my apk for you to download?
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Mmmm, thats wierd. I don't think the amount of tracks on Play Music is a problem at all. I have a little bit under 2k songs in there as well and It prompts me with the option to select my music player (in this case spotify). The web search comes after the song hit. I can't say its 4.3 either, though I'm still rocking 4.2.2
Here is my Google Search Version: 2.6.7.721924.arm
Try uninstalling and reinstalling Google Search maybe that will do the trick. As a last resort I could pull my apk for you to download?
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Thanks for looking. I'm on the same version (2.6.7.721924) and have uninstalled the updates/reinstalled. Still nothing. It's a weird issue, to be sure. From my research it looks like it's an intermittent issue that comes and goes to most people. I'd welcome any other advice.
--Databoy2k
I have the same issue. Some songs instantly played when named and others will bring me to the search engine. I thought it might be where the song resides that was the issue but I'm not 100% sure. Sometimes i can get it to work from songs on internal memory. And sometimes from my micro SD card, but not always. I thought it might have to do with whether the music was on Play Music...."all music", or "on device". But i cannot get it to work every time.
Edit: even stranger. ..i just tired both "play" and "listen to" commands for the song "Wish you were here". The song opens up with the image of the Pink Floyd album cover, and then the music plays. But it's not Pink Floyd. It's the Grateful Dead version. I then see album covers for those two versions and one for Incubus' version. If i use the "listen to" or "play" command and say, "Listen to Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd", it still plays the Dead's version. I have all three versions in my library.
If i use the"play" command and then name an artist, nothing happens. If i instead insert the word "Google" before the word "play", then it will play an artist. Wonkey!!!
Hi, I noticed that Listen and Play command does not launch the default music player any more. The list of apps in the Google Now Settings does not show any music player either. I don't have access to Play music in my region.
Anyone have the same experience? Can this be fixed at our end?
Does anyone else have this problem when trying to control google music from their android wear watch? I swear the thing hates me.
I can say "Play Stranglehold" and "Play Peanut Butter Conspiracy" and it will say "Playing on phone" or whatever and then start the music. But if I say "Play Pink Floyd" or "Play Led Zeppelin" or "Play driving playlist" it will show me those exact words and then it just googles them. They're all in my library.. and sometimes I can get it to play the playlist but shows those same exact words.
What all music voice commands work for you guys?
Does this thing just hate classic rock? =P
Hi All,
Anyone knows how to change default music player on KK Android? Alternatively how to make Android Wear open PowerAmp instead of Google Play Music when I say Open Music?
When I click open music player on phone using android wear it opens default music player Google Play. When I freeze that it opens YouTube, when I freeze that Tunein Radio and when I freeze that finally PowerAmp.
However I want to have Youtube and Tunein installed and working. Any suggestions?
Tried the clear defaults but all above mentioned apps have that option greyed out, tired assigning PowerAmp to MP3 files and I can and it now opens when I double click but Wear still opens google one.
Anything else?
Well, I can tell you how to change Google Now to open PowerAmp. Use your phone's voice search to play a title of a song in your library (so, "Play [title]"). When it speaks "Playing [title]," and shows the "Playing" card, quickly press the three dots menu icon in the upper right corner of that card. You'll see a new card with "Play music with..." and a list of apps. Pick PowerAmp. From then on, it should use PowerAmp whenever you ask it to play a title. Now, why did I tell you to play a title, and not simply "Play Music?" It seems that "Play Music" is hardwired to use Google Play Music to launch "I'm feeling lucky radio." You cannot change it. If you hit the three dots after that command, Google Play Music is all you'll see.
Now, for the watch. It's going to be a LOT more finicky. Asking for a song or album title, or even an artist SHOULD use the same app set in Google Now, but sometimes it will use Google Play Music anyway. If you don't have "All Access," it will sometimes fail, with some error about not being able to create a playlist (or something like that... I can't remember exactly). Sometimes, it will simply open a Google Search for no apparent reason.
The bottom line is: Opening music from the watch will only work a small percentage of the time, and that success rate will be cut even further if you're not using Google Play Music. Unfortunately, I doubt that Google is inclined to fix, or even improve, this anytime soon.
Having said that... there might be a workaround:
You need: Tasker (paid) and Tasker App Factory (free)
Create a task in tasker that does what you want it to do. Then give it an icon and use "Export to Application" to create an APK of it, name it what you want the voice command to be. Install the APK to your phone.
When you want to run the task, say "ok google, launch [app name]" into your watch.
It's possible to search, by voice control, an album...not a song? For example "Play [Album]" and then playing start from first track of the album
Is it possible with google now and poweramp?
is there any other app to play songs stored in watch directly like google play music?
Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this forum. I recently purchased a Moto 360 for myself and I must say, so far I'm in love with it. I had to switch from Spotify to Play Music, but that's not a big deal since I originally used to use Play Music. There is one thing I am having a problem with however.
With a lot of songs that I have on play music, when I issue the "Play Song" command on my moto 360, it will attempt to open up the Youtube video, as opposed to just playing the song on Play Music. I have the songs added to my library on Play music, but it continues to do this. It's not every song either, only certain ones.
Does anyone have any experience or fix for this? Is there a way to just block Youtube on my moto 360 all together? I'm never going to use it anyways.
Thank you!
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With a lot of songs that I have on play music, when I issue the "Play Song" command on my moto 360, it will attempt to open up the Youtube video, as opposed to just playing the song on Play Music. I have the songs added to my library on Play music, but it continues to do this. It's not every song either, only certain ones.
Thank you!
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I had a similar issue and found that it was AllCast app downloaded from the play store that was interfering with my voice commands. Do you have any apps that might be 'stealing' the voice action?
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I had a similar issue and found that it was AllCast app downloaded from the play store that was interfering with my voice commands. Do you have any apps that might be 'stealing' the voice action?
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Not that I know of. I even uninstalled Youtube from my phone, but I still run into the same issue. I can't play certain songs through play music. It recommends me Youtube music videos to watch instead.
Moto 360 second gen and I have the same issue.
im having the same issue, still have not found what is causing this....maybe google now settings ? cause ok google open google now on my phone when i issue voice commands..
I solved mine by factory resetting my phone and starting over. This time I didn't install the YouTube Music app and all now happens according to plan.