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Using google voice to play music?

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.

[Q] Backup playlists from crashing Google Play Music app?

Hi! I used Google Play Music app great for months.
Today, I opened it. It didn't find any of my music, except the one song I bought from Google Play (all the music is still on the phone, taking up 6GB of space). Consistently, the app will crash about 10 seconds after I open it. It will lock up and then a few seconds later display "Unfortunately, Google Play Music has stopped."
Any ideas of what's up?
And, if not, I guess uninstall/reinstall is the best option. Do you know if the "thumbs up" / ratings are saved somewhere if I uninstall/reinstall it? Basically, are the playlists backed up somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
P.S. Stock, no root.

ikjadoon said:
Hi! I used Google Play Music app great for months.
Today, I opened it. It didn't find any of my music, except the one song I bought from Google Play (all the music is still on the phone, taking up 6GB of space). Consistently, the app will crash about 10 seconds after I open it. It will lock up and then a few seconds later display "Unfortunately, Google Play Music has stopped."
Any ideas of what's up?
And, if not, I guess uninstall/reinstall is the best option. Do you know if the "thumbs up" / ratings are saved somewhere if I uninstall/reinstall it? Basically, are the playlists backed up somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
P.S. Stock, no root.
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No idea how to save/recover playlists, so I said fudge it. Uninstalled, reinstalled: nothing.
Found out you can call Google for support on Play apps: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy&policy=apps
They don't know what's up, either, but they're investigating and will get back.
Will update when I hear,

Just heard yesterday:
"We're aware of an issue with the Google Music app and are working on a fix. This issue will be resolved in the next update release."
Yeah! You go, Google!

Well, I got tired of using other players, so I diagnosed some more.
I removed all my music, edited since tags of the FLAC files I had, and imported my music back, but into my SD card this time.
Now, Google Music works perfectly! Unsure on the problem or whatever Google is attempting to fix, but it's all solid now.

Had similar issue but got so bad i reflashed rom and gapps lol, turn music up in the music app caused music fx to stop, then music app stopped then settings stopped then launcher stopped, even third party apps stopped like audio manager and doubletwist. Had been playing with pimp my rom app so thought maybe that and its interaction with my PA rom (v2.99b6) (thanks to molesarecoming) was a possible cause, but i did update google music yesterday so maybe it was that. After reflash all seems ok now no glitches, made me have a full noob panic attack though so thanks google
sent via xda app from my yakju gnex 4.2.1 paranoid android 2.99 beta 6

Google Now - "Listen To" command

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?

iLeopard said:
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?

Launching PowerAmp from Android Wear

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?

issues with google play music - auto skipping songs

Ok, so i looked in the forums and found no one had this... but I launch the google play music app, pick ANY radio station, start a tune, it will play just fine.
Now, once the song is over, OR if I decide to skip a song, the app will start playing the next track as expected however, after 4 ~ 7 seconds of playback, the song skips, and goes to the next song again. I have seen the phone do this, while unlocked, I was just looking at it, nothing touching it and the skip occurs.
Uninstalled the app, the cache, all the play store updates/cache/data as well - same thing.
spotify, radiotunes, etc -- all work fine
poweramp for local content -= same thing, no issues.
google play support has so far been unable to help me.
anyone else experience this?
running stock 3.2.1 not rooted.