4 ms·
I'm invariably amused when my four year old gives up on "Alexa, play Justin Beaver on Spotify" and resorts to "Alexa, play whatever you want on Spotify", only t
by prawn 9y ago
I'm invariably amused when my four year old gives up on "Alexa, play Justin Beaver on Spotify" and resorts to "Alexa, play whatever you want on Spotify", only to get back this:
https://youtu.be/dG2jj-aIl-A?t=1m16s https://youtu.be/dG2jj-aIl-A?t=1m16s
- Darthy 9y agoThat's interesting. I wonder whether some artists are already exploiting this by creating tracks with names such as "a random song" and "some music"?
- markaius 9y agoI would be surprised if they weren't. I was trying to send a text message while driving recently and google played #text message radio.
- justusthane 9y agoYes: https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/youneedtohearthisthis-guy-made-23000-by-releasing-14000-songs-on-itunes-and-spotify https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/youneedtohearthisthis-...
- fudged71 9y ago"it is inevitable that they will type the word "poop" into the search bar. Once they do that, they'll find 9 albums by The Toilet Bowl Cleaners! It's impossible not to listen to these songs once you know they exist." Touche. I would absolutely do that.
- theptip 9y agoBets on the first band to troll Alexa by naming their album "Alexa, stop"?
- gavinpc 9y ago"[branded product] play [song or singer] on [branded service]." The device and the service are fixed parts of the incantation (as heard), but the artist's name is not. This is the logical conclusion of that. I suspect it's not about wanting to hear music as it is about exercising power. (As someone else commented here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375928)
- prawn 9y agoHe would have heard us use similar instructions relating to genres so knows he can explore options.