So now that we have AW2 and you can press and hold for the assistant, this is a real help for when in the car and I want to play some music without pulling the phone out of the pocket. All great, until I installed TuneIn, and now all of the "Play such and such" gets diverted to that app.
How do you customise which App a command in assistant gets opened up with?
Interested in this too, as I've always had the same problem on my phone. I use Google Play Music, but when I use Google Assistant on my phone, it assumes I want to use spotify, which I don't even have an account for. So when I say "play xxx", it just brings up the sign in to account screen for spotify. I have to say "Play xxx on google play music". I also have a Google Home, and the app for that lets you define a default music service. Can't find a similar setting for Assistant. I do have the Google Home app set up on my phone, but the setting in that doesn't carry over to Assistant.
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Music beta, the Google Android app that supports Google Music Beta, autostarts whenever it detects a BT audio connection that isn't being used. So, for instance, if I shut off Poweramp or another streaming player before I disconnect BT, it will instantly pop up and start playing, sometimes even before the other app has shut down.
There is no settings menu to prevent it from "reacting" to headset commands in the app, and I'd like to be able to control whether it autostarts or not from another application. I downloaded Autostarts, but it doesn't even recognize the event as a trigger for the application.
Any other suggestions? I'd uninstall the damn program, but it's the only app out there now that will play music stored in Google Music beta.
interesting. Have never had it auto-play on bt connect. Are you using the widget as-well?
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interesting. Have never had it auto-play on bt connect. Are you using the widget as-well?
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Nope. I only run the app when I want to play music on Google Music Beta. Otherwise I run Poweramp. What's annoying is that I'll have Pocketcasts up and running and even playing, and suddenly Music will decide it wants to play, too. I had this problem with Winamp and I had it with the stock Music app.
I froze the stock Music app in Titanium, and I could always remove this one, but then there aren't any other apps that play music stored in Google Music.
haven't tried it (trashed google music) but something called 'phantom' (appbrain) claims to play google music in the pro version. I THOUGHT I saw another one that did it but can't find it now. Look around; keep eye out.
Anyone know exactly what I can use to get S-Voice or Google Now to open upon a long click of the headset/headphone button?
I am a recent Android user and came over from iPhone, one simple feature I loved about my iPhone 4 (with had basic voice controls but not Siri) was the ability to hold the headset button while biking and just say "play Nirvana" or "play album Nevermind" and it would go into the music player and play what I requested.
For some reason I haven't been able to replicate the same function with my S3. It works find if I am looking at the phone and press S-Voice or Google Now, but not when I have no access to the screen/screen lock.
Any ideas?
anyone?
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?
I have had my Z play for awhile and until recently it will now randomly make that Google assistant sound when you say OK, Google..
When I pull out my phone from my pocket it is on the Google white pop up with a little icon that says Listening for music. This pop up is listening and greyed out from my lock screen. I have to unlock the phone and cancel the listenig
I never setup OK google in the Google app. I use the Moto app and trained my phone to wake to OK Computer.
I can't figure out whats wrong and it will open randomly at work or the movies and that OK google sound is embarassing sometimes.
Any suggestions?
This last weekend Google pushed a new Version of Google Voice to my Gemini PDA.
Since then I have been unable to get the Voice Assistant Button to work
I cannot find in settings or Google Voice a setting to associate the hardware button to Google Voice.
How do I do that?
Can you still hear the sound when you press the button? If so, have you just tried speaking, maybe google changed something in ui with last update.
The button is now unresponsive - no sound when pushed, no application enabled, etc.
If you open "Gemini Voice Assistant" app and press mic image, do you get any response?
I have this problem too -- the voice assistant button is completely unresponsive after Android update. If I open Gemini Voice Assistant app and press the green microphone icon then that appears to work as intended -- a "zwipzwip" sound is played, the screen is screenshotted, and Google Assistant opens. I'd like the button to at least open google assistant so that I can call people by voice dialing without opening the screen.
Hey guys,
Try downloading Google Assistant from Play Store. Mine went through a few screens and then everything seemed to transfer from Voice Search in the regular Google App to Assistant.
no luck installing assistant
I installed the Google Assistant app from the play store but this had no effect on reenabling the button on the right side of the gemini near the usb port.
Strange. I'd just reflash and start from scratch if it's not a massive hassle.
Hi, has anyone found a solution to this? I am having the same issue.
Have you tried updating Gemini voice assistant manually from play store? Search for gem. voice assistant and it will install as an update to existing app.
unistalling and reinstalling the gemini voice assistant app from the play store solved the problem for me
This still does not work for me when the device is closed, can anyone confirm if they've found a fix for it?