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Presumably you only listen to chart-topping american pop and music made by people with common english names? Because so far I've never had any luck whatsoever
by Nullabillity 10y ago
Presumably you only listen to chart-topping american pop and music made by people with common english names?
Because so far I've never had any luck whatsoever with anything else.
- Accacin 10y agoDownvoted but a very valid observation. I listen to a lot of Black Metal and as most of it isn't in English, it's hard for Siri to understand what I'm asking for, or to even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
- xforteversilov 10y agoI literally asked my Google home this morning: "Hey Google, play some Peruvian psychedelic cumbia" and it found exactly what I wanted (using Spotify). For me, these home assistants are the best thing I have bought since my first smartphone.
- Nullabillity 10y agoThat's still a genre with a relatively english name. Good luck searching for a specific artist/track.
- VLM 10y agoDoesn't that violate streamed discovery and all that? You should just be thumbs up thumbs down and trust the streaming service to take your advice as it DJs to you. "Alexa play what you think I need to hear"
- hokkos 10y agoNice find : spotify:album:1YCdKn5y7C99mM2sb3QTlo
- tyingq 10y agoYou can upload your own mp3s to Amazon Music and play them from the Echo. No cost until you go past 250 songs. http://www.voicedesigned.com/content/how-play-your-mp3s-echo-alexa http://www.voicedesigned.com/content/how-play-your-mp3s-echo...
- Trd 10y agoThe problem is not the availability of the music but Alexa's ability to understand names. If I tell an Echo to play, say, Zuntata, is it going to work? if I tell it japanese band names despite the overall language I speak being English or French, what will happen? Most voice assistants choke when you speak foreign-y names and can only understand them if you set the language of the device to the right language. A voice assistant is only as useful as its ability to understand speech. If it can't tell anything from half of my music library then it's not worth much to me.
- kalleboo 10y agoYeah I've resigned to not being able to use voice assistants since I use 3 different languages on a daily basis.
- iplaw 10y agoSick burn. In your situation, you can pre-program playlists with your funky foreign beats and command Alexa to play the playlist instead. It adds a step, but it's painless after that.
- fenwick67 10y ago"Hey Siri, play some Sun Oh Right Parentheses Right Parentheses Right Parentheses"
- jameshart 10y agoI don't know what you have in mind, but I was pretty impressed that when I asked Alexa to play 'Scherzo for X-Wings' she pulled up the right track from the Force Awakens soundtrack without a problem. Try it before you knock it.