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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

585 points by I-M-S 6y ago

rorykoehler 6y ago
Every time this topic comes up on here the comments are full of complaints about 1) privacy and 2) broken ux. I have to ask why do you even bother? I’ve never once thought I wish I didn’t have to pick up my phone got 5 seconds to do something simple.
- Kaze404 6y ago
  It's incredibly handy when cooking. "Hey Google set up a 15 minutes timer", "Hey Google how many teaspoons is in a cup?", etc while you have your hands dirty / busy.
  - rorykoehler 6y ago
    That’s an awful trade off.
    - Kaze404 6y ago
      How is it a trade off? You can use it for the things it's good at, and not use it for the things it sucks at. Seems fine to me.
      - rorykoehler 6y ago
        Privacy is also a concern.
  - cthor 6y ago
    Could just turn the knob on your oven's timer and use a measuring jug.
    - Kaze404 6y ago
      Not all ovens have timers, not all measuring jugs have all necessary units and I my phone is not only more practical but also more available than one.
  - mackrevinack 6y ago
    no doubt its useful for that but is it really worth it considering the price? arent most assistants powered by batteries so it also has an ongoing cost, especially if you have multiple devices? all that just to add a timer 3-5 seconds quicker? and then there's still other issues like privacy or the thing being an expensive paperweight if you're Internet isn't working
    - Kaze404 6y ago
      Definitely. I wouldn't consider buying an assistant for that. I just use my phone really, since it's free and I have it on me at all times anyway.
aerovistae 6y ago
Would this work though? You would have to say "Ok google, play 'okay google play music"", wouldn't you?
- ericbarrett 6y ago
  "Ok Google, play...um...Ok Google, play music"
MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Cleaner link: https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf I don't imagine it's likely to have the effect of confusing anyone's smart speaker, is it?
- _the_inflator 6y ago
  Siri would be way simpler to cheat. Siri on iPad often times reacts to Audible books...
- fudged71 6y ago
  I just tried on Google home and it wasn’t confused. I had to say “Ok Google play okay Google play music”
moron4hire 6y ago
What does it do? I don't have a Spotify account.
- grawprog 6y ago
  No idea I don't have Spotify or use any google assistant stuff, but i'm guessing it's supposed to make it so if you try to open google play music using a voice assistant, it'll instead play that album from Spotify. Maybe as a joke, maybe as a way to try and get a bunch of artificial listens.
  - moron4hire 6y ago
    Yeah, that's what other people are saying. Damn, that's kinda lame. I was hoping it was tracks of phrases starting "OK Google" to make your Google Home flip out and do weird shit. Wasted opportunity.
- MontyCarloHall 6y ago
  It’s generic filler music. It exists so that the uploader gets paid when someone says “OK Google play music” and the voice assistant inadvertently pulls up the album. Ingenious if it actually works.
- ct0 6y ago
  it doesn't work as you'd think, to play this specific album, you have to say "ok google, play, okay google play music".
renewiltord 6y ago
My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the forced migration. EDIT: Okay, I went to verify it and this has to be the best instance of massive PEBKAC plus some UX donkeyness. The auto playlist is called "Your Likes" so I can get the Assistant to do the right thing by telling her to play her likes (Ok Google, play your likes). What the fuck man. But fine. At least I got it working. I've suffered with this for months and now I find a solution in the few minutes after posting this.
- dylan604 6y ago
  Think of the assistants as young children. As a reference, someone I know spent some time in Miami with his wife and 2 young kids. After some time, the young son told his dad that he wanted to go back to "yourhammy". The dad eventually decoded "yourhammy" was the kid's interpretation of Miami as My-hammy. Your Likes => My Likes reminded me of that story.
  - notRobot 6y ago
    You shouldn't have to treat a Smart assistant like a child.
    - twicetwice 6y ago
      Children are really really smart—just not yet as smart as adults.
      - ajmurmann 6y ago
        I think children are probably at least as smart as adults, but are missing assumed context on almost everything. Maybe the same is the real problem with smart assistance?
offtop5 6y ago
Can't say expected much , but he sounds like he uploaded a bunch of basic loops. If your gonna do this at least bring real content
- hackstack 6y ago
  I don't know, I thought Vulfpeck's "Sleepify" hit the nail on the head without bringing any "real" content.
  - colejohnson66 6y ago
    I’m partial to John Cage’s 4’33
chente 6y ago
Feel like this is a natural byproduct of the SEOization of Spotify. https://www.inputmag.com/culture/manipulated-seo-made-your-generic-spotify-background-music https://www.inputmag.com/culture/manipulated-seo-made-your-g...
- AirMax98 6y ago
  Modern equivalent of how pop tracks were optimized for a 6 second ringtone in the mid-2000s.
enw 6y ago
Does the voice recognition understand “Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music”?
- TerminalWarrior 6y ago
  I'm about to drop my next album in early 2021, "Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music"
- natex 6y ago
  hah or even "Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music on Google Play Music"
jjulius 6y ago
Vaguely reminiscent of when Marco V released a track called "C:\ del *.mp3"[0] out of frustration towards mp3 rips. Still amusing to me that he didn't quite get the command right. [0]https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/133498 https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/1334...
- ArchOversight 6y ago
  I never knew that was the reason the track was named that! One of my favorites.
- depingus 6y ago
  The other day a song called S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264 by Blood Command appeared in my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought someone messed up, but no...that's the name of song!
  - quesera 6y ago
    Mr. Robot episode names are also fun: "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" "shutdown -r" "404 Not Found" Etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes
  - notRobot 6y ago
    In case anyone else wants to listen to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AdsnyhToo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AdsnyhToo
  - dhritzkiv 6y ago
    Points off for not including a release group (e.g. RARBG, KOGi, STRONTRIUM, etc.)
    - mckirk 6y ago
      It's possible they just didn't want to get sued by the group for trademark infringement.
thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago
I've worked on large music platforms and this kind of spam is always an ongoing battle. You'll see artists pop up with the same name as a popular song, songs named 'play [genre]', and all sorts of things.
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nondeveloper 6y ago
There has to be a term for this kind of thing. Keyword hijacking? Assistant crashing?
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  Its basically a specialized case of google bombing.
TheMagicHorsey 6y ago
Spotify's mobile app is honestly one of the worst f'in apps I have ever used. I have a family plan and both my wife and I have the same issues. First, Spotify has no idea how to pipe its playlists to Alexa and Google ... so you can't ever seem to get either to play playlists. Second, Spotify randomly decides sometimes that it won't connect to the Internet, even when your phone has a 4G connection and everything else works fine. To compound the issue, Spotify doesn't know how to show you your offline downloads when you are in Android Auto mode ... so you basically can't even play your songs when on a drive. I need to figure out how to export my playlists and then I'm off Spotify forever. Worse customer experience ever.
- evan_ 6y ago
  If you say "OK google play spotify playlist xxxxxx" it should work.
slg 6y ago
The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music". The bit would be much more effective if the album was just named "Music" and the tracks various genres. However then the fact that the name is a bit isn't even noticeable. There is a weird balancing act between the effectiveness of art and making it clear that what you are doing is art at all. This artist choice the latter.
- jaynetics 6y ago
  > The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music" the next step for it to go really viral would be to make the album consist only of various generic voices saying "ok google play ok google play music".
  - tolbish 6y ago
    South Park did something like that. https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_kQJiogKCE https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_kQJiogKCE It's South Park, so the nsfw should be implied.
    - lostgame 6y ago
      This is understatedly one of the best tech pranks ever, especially recently. (The Max Headroom TV hacking incident comes to mind not-so-recently) Minutes into the episode Twitter was full of people posting about how it was messing with everyone's smart speakers. Tech comedy gold.
- elefanten 6y ago
  I took that to be the point; that in addition to all the title permutations, the user may have to prepend the command of whatever service they're using. This creates even more combinations and even more shenanigans.
- gdw2 6y ago
  What if you said, "Alexa play Ok Google Play Music"? Might be a scenario when both your Alexa and Google devices (e.g. android phones, etc) would start play music unintentionally.
rmorey 6y ago
Reminds me of "A a a a a Very Good Song" , a silent track designed to keep some random song starting with "a" from auto-playing when iTunes/Music/CarPlay opens: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-silent-track-single/1268932999 https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-si...
- cortesoft 6y ago
  My old car would always auto play `Aaron Burr, Sir` no matter how many times I tried to prevent it.
  - robterrell 6y ago
    "A-Punk" for me. How do car manufacturers not notice things like this?
    - derwiki 6y ago
      Acid Rap for me
    - vokep 6y ago
      Oh god same here that "Dunananana nananana" is seared into my brain :(
allforJesse 6y ago
And thus, the voice-assistant-SEO wars began.
echelon 6y ago
YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTube parody videos into my playlist. Why the hell would I want to listen to stuff like this https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco ? I hate Google so much now. They're like evil 90's Microsoft, but incompetent. They've got their ad monopoly / web destruction engine to sustain them, but they're Dilbert Pointy Haired Boss bad with everything else. No gamers will be surprised when Stadia gets canned. It'll be hilarious when they decide to shutter GCP. Remember when it leaked that they were internally threatening to defund it if they couldn't hit growth targets? Imagine all their B2B relationships getting hit as hard as their consumers do.
- judge2020 6y ago
  > YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. Just dislike these songs/videos. At first all I did was play playlists I already had in YT since the 'my mix' (now "my supermix") playlist had random songs I listened to 5 years ago, but after about a week of using the 'my mix' and disliking songs, I started getting a bunch of great songs from artists that I otherwise had no idea about.
  - ortusdux 6y ago
    The problem is, OP already did this. So did I. How much in-fighting is there at google that they couldn't just port over the data? Right now I'm pissed that Google tv doesn't have a working account switcher. If my wife watches music videos it retrains my YouTube music. Also, youtube music sucks when it comes to spotty connections and file management. I have fiber at work and home, unmetered 4g, and 100gig free space on my phone. Why doesn't it just download everything? I loose service for hours on end and I come to find that it has either not saved any songs or it has deleted everything it can. Today I started an album and then hit a dead spot, and it had deleted all the songs before the track I was on, and not qeued up the rest of the album. Google music had a setting where you could tell it to allocate gigs of space and keep it full. This push to simplify user experiences is why I avoid apple, and I hate seeing it creep into google. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/30/google-tv-is-perfect-for-your-living-room-as-long-as-youre-the-only-one-watching/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/30/google-tv-is-perfec...
ohdannyboy 6y ago
So now we know that Bobby Tables grew up to be a musician. (https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/)
golemotron 6y ago
There was a band named 'Various Artists' but no one could find their albums.
- keypusher 6y ago
  The 90's band Self has a similar issue.
ISL 6y ago
Little Bobby Tables is growing up. (https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/)
mgkimsal 6y ago
The artist is 'drumkoon' and has a bunch of similar album titles and songs... https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X9HMvCAb5RiZhcwekJLNY https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X9HMvCAb5RiZhcwekJLNY "Hey Alexa Play Music" and "Hey Siri Play Music" with tracks like "OK Alexa Play Lofi".
17a9f4a4f4e5b3f 6y ago
Some years ago I went to do something by voice and wanted to cancel "Ok Google ... nevermind" and then it played Nevermind by Nirvana. Thought that was goofy, I didn't ask to play music or anything.
- bsimpson 6y ago
  "OK Google, play Glass Animals" while riding my motorcycle. Google starts reading me the Wikipedia page for Glass Animals.
lc3sim 6y ago
Remember back when Apple was running ads for Chance the Rapper's debut album (Apple Music exclusive) "Coloring Book?" Apple was also pushing a lot into Siri. I can't recall the specifics, but I thought the ad had Chance saying "hey siri play coloring book." So, I asked Siri the above prompt. Siri took me to Apple Music and played an album with the name "Coloring Book" but by a different artist.
cwmma 6y ago
My wife used to always says "Hey Google Play Smooth Jazz" when we got a google home, so since it was hooked up to my spotify, I made a new playlist called "Smooth Jazz" that simply contained "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  Maybe Careless Whisper too while it's at it.
  - YetAnotherNick 6y ago
    You totally missed the joke
    - bigwavedave 6y ago
      I don't think they did. Rick Rolling is fairly common- the commenter you replied to suggested "Careless Whisper" in addition to the Rick Roll because it would be a careless whisper that would cause the Rick Roll to play. They were adding a layer to the original joke. At least, that's what it seemed like to me.
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alpb 6y ago
He has an Alexa version as well https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr, but I highly doubt these actually will work due to the reason listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278964.
AlphaWeaver 6y ago
For a while, I had a Spotify playlist called "My Playlist called My Playlist" so I could say "Hey Google, play my playlist called 'My Playlist called My Playlist'"
acid__ 6y ago
I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.
- pradn 6y ago
  As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It's too much. :)
  - xd1936 6y ago
    Agreed. And I have a small child. I _really_ don't want them to be forming "relationships" with brands by asking robot assistants named after corporations to do stuff.
    - malandrew 6y ago
      You can also think of it as a robot assistant that is named after a number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers
      - pinewurst 6y ago
        No, we're their numbers...
      - medium_burrito 6y ago
        Like that makes it any better. "I am not a number I am a free man!"
hi41 6y ago
I can't play the song without a spotify account. Is there any other website where I can hear the song. TIA
fungiblecog 6y ago
Anybody who uses a "smart assistant" is either easily amused or likes to suffer... They are the embodiment of why the current AI fad will end up like the last one. No intelligence at all.
dukeofdoom 6y ago
Trump should tweet "Multiple election sources called this election differently" would be hilarious. Twitter has been mocking him for a long time now with this line. But would take on the opposite meaning if he tweeted it, because its a pretty a stupid vague statement, that implies the election has multiple people calling it differently...or in other words is disputed.
princevegeta89 6y ago
"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!
- cwkoss 6y ago
  Privacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.
  - tenacious_tuna 6y ago
    And Google Assistant doesn't? We quite often (~once a week, minimum) have our Home mini trigger off of some unrelated conversation. 50/50 on if "google" is ever mentioned, too.
  - mritchie712 6y ago
    Right, Google was worried about privacy.
  - sorenjan 6y ago
    My Google Mini gets triggered several times a night when I'm watching video. Maybe 1/3 of the time it's somebody saying "ok", but most of the time it seems to be random.
  - sz4kerto 6y ago
    "Ok Google" gets triggered by stuff like "OK cool", that I often say. It's maddening.
    - Avamander 6y ago
      You can say "okay boomer" and it triggers.
  - Steltek 6y ago
fest 6y ago
I wonder if you could have: a) song called Recursion on Spotify that has lyrics of "Ok Google, play Recursion on Play Music" b) a song with the same title but lyrics "Ok Google, play Recursion on spotify" on Play Music (or whatever it's called now).
loisaidasam 6y ago
Also available on Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb
llacb47 6y ago
Get rid of the tracking parameters in the url, thank you.
demadog 6y ago
It’s too bad the songs don’t line up with the titles. He could have had actual listeners! Play Workout Music song is a chill meditation song...
imheretolearn 6y ago
I recall a funny incident where I was having a slack call with a colleague and I said something on the lines of "Ok Google it". Their Google assistant was enabled and it repeated the last command which was very NSFW. I couldn't control my laughter and we had a nice little laughing break over it
jonnycomputer 6y ago
I've had moderate luck with podcasts; I use Google's podcast app, and want voice commands when driving. But it only works 50-70% of the time, and only with some of the podcasts. I'd much rather just have the ability to set trigger words that execute macros. Really, there are only a few of them that i need regularly.
lucasgonze 6y ago
This violates one of the terms of the iTunes Music Style Guide. You're not allowed to reference Apple's competitors. So, yeah, iTunes might well refuse to carry it.
ada1981 6y ago
Can someone explain to me what exactly this does or how it interacts with Alexa? If I say that command, surely this isn’t now going to play, or is it?
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freewilly1040 6y ago
Similarly, there’s a podcast called the “Bill Simmons Podcast Podcast”, which one of my voice assistants consistently chooses rather than the real one.
makecheck 6y ago
The default responses for assistants are getting much worse, to the point where a misheard phrase can do a lot of things you don’t want instead of just stopping immediately. My favorite misfeature is babbling. Used to be you could just say “off” to stop a misinterpreted command, which worked fine because the assistant didn’t used to babble. Now though, its own rambling follow-ups interfere with its ability to even hear you desperately saying “no! off! stop! shut up! cancel!”. And my new favorite, every command response ending with an unsolicited “BY THE WAY: $thing_i_did_not_ask_for”.
- curiousllama 6y ago
  I almost threw my thing against the wall when it did that after a 6am alarm
sabujp 6y ago
LOL he has an alexa one too : https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr
BurningFrog 6y ago
It's like Bobby Tables grew up and became an artist.
bhhaskin 6y ago
Fun fact. shuffle doesn't on playlists larger than 25 songs work on YT Music. How did they manage to mess up something so simple as shuffling songs.
bravoetch 6y ago
This guy went the extra mile and put ads for himself at the end of each track.
ibdf 6y ago
I have noticed that my Google assistant is getting less smart by the day. It used to understand a lot more, now it keeps playing the wrong thing or turning off all the lights instead of one... or it won’t stop the alarm when you say stop. It’s been getting really frustrating... I would be more upset but they pretty much give those mini speakers away any chance they get.
martyvis 6y ago
Yesterday, while listening to a song in the car, I asked Google Assistant to "play more of this album", and of course I it began playing a song called "More Of This" by an unknown band rather than what you would think would have been an obvious assistance.
riffnote 6y ago
Does he work in SEO too?
kseifried 6y ago
Try getting an Alexa/Siri or whatever to play "Radio" by Rammstein. Come back when you're done listening to random top 40 radio or being told there is no Rammstein radio station and click the link below to hear the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI
corytheboyd 6y ago
What a dunk on a bad excuse for an advertising espionage tool. I fully support this level of pettiness.
thedonkeycometh 6y ago
Alexa Play notifications gets all manner of crazy for me
0x6A75616E 6y ago
or, how to get sued by Google for trademark infringement
schwartzworld 6y ago
My daughter almost always asks Google Home to play songs with made up words for titles. Google almost always responds with hip hop, almost always super inappropriate. I love it.
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Schwolop 6y ago
Dear Google/Alexa/Cortana/Siri product managers in the streaming audio space, here is what we actually want: * "never play that song ever again" * "add <artist> to my blocked list" * "set the plays limit for Baby Shark to once per day" * a feature that prevents interpretation of any phrase leading to the same result, if the response to that result led to a "stop!" or "for fuck's sake!" within the next ten seconds. i.e. stop doing the same incorrect thing over and over again if it's clear that it's not the desired outcome. * "play that song I said I liked a few days ago" * "shuffle my favourite songs" We don't want to block explicit lyrics, some of our favourite songs have swear words in them. We want to block entire artists who are simply awful. We don't want you to get the song wrong and be forced to yell "stop!" until you shut up. We want to make it clear that not only was that the wrong song, we also never want you to ever think it could possibly be the right song. We want the magic of our kids being able to play their music on demand, but without the headaches that come from kids being total assholes most of the time. We want you - our voice assistant - to assist us, not provoke us to rage. You've made a useful tool. You've made a fun gimmick. But now it's time to make it a pleasant experience, because right now it just plain isn't.
- enobrev 6y ago
  Google has responded correctly to "never play that song again" for me in the past. Same with "hey google, fuck this song". I don't know if it explicitly "downvoted" the song or not, but the song was immediately skipped and I hadn't heard it any time soon after. That said, I've refrained from using my google puck in recent months and it had been regressing pretty heavily when I did, so I can't guarantee that still works.
  - Schwolop 6y ago
    Yeah, I'm sure some providers do support some of my feature requests here. But definitely not a single one supports all of them (or I'd have moved to it!) Amazon Music, for example, supports this blocking only for songs in their pre-built playlists. It's little constraints like that that contribute to the frustration.
- LeoPanthera 6y ago
userbinator 6y ago
How about an album called "Ok Google Play \"Ok Google Play Music\""... It's amusing to think that there is an elegant solution to this problem in text --- quoting --- which unfortunately a lot of the population doesn't understand beyond one level at most, but also cannot easily be expressed verbally.
musicale 6y ago
Skynet is coming.
flatfilefan 6y ago
I wonder, why it is still not possible to spell the words you want to say if they are not recognized by the voice assistant?
throwaheyy 6y ago
Reminds me of a South Park episode. Cartman and Alexa - https://youtu.be/ESt7CTZiXqY?t=123 https://youtu.be/ESt7CTZiXqY?t=123
surround 6y ago
The submission url contains these tracking parameters: ?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2020-12-02) Here’s the url with the tracking parameters removed: https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf
victor9000 6y ago
How is it that we still don't have custom wake words on any smart home platform? I don't want to say your stupid name, I want my own wake command.
WalterBright 6y ago
Please don't name your song "Launch Nuclear Missiles".
shp0ngle 6y ago
I see it comes after his other hits, "Hey Alexa Play Music" and "Hey Google Play Morning Music" https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/6gNlCarKcZL0yIXnOKa8Tw https://open.spotify.com/album/6gNlCarKcZL0yIXnOKa8Tw
calt 6y ago
If this was good music I would applaud the ingenuity. However, it's handpan music, which I like, but it's so poorly recorded that it's... just wow. Bad. Lot's of annoying high end reverberation and a ground loop hum on one track I listened to. And every track ends with vocals saying "this was drumkoon."
stubish 6y ago
Is anyone working on touch screen home assistant interfaces? I think some Alexa devices have a mode, but they still seem primarily designed for speech and I think of limited use to mutes. And judging by other comments, seems like a lot of other people want something more discoverable than trying random phrases and hoping for the best.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
So, I don't have spotify - anyone listen to this, is it any good? Is it actually representative of the genre it is supposed to be in, or is it a put on like some industrial noise?
kindohm 6y ago
Not seeing any comments here about the music itself. I enjoyed it: a soothing soundtrack for the beginning of my work day.
chuch 6y ago
I don't really understand : If someone say "Ok Google, play Music", the home assistant will search for a song called "music", not "Ok Google Play Music" ? What is wrong here ?
sudheerbabu 6y ago
Hello HY, Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify https://bit.ly/36xDd8h https://bit.ly/36xDd8h The above link is not working Please check
sudheerbabu 6y ago
Hello HN, The below link is not working. Please check Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify https://bit.ly/36xDd8h https://bit.ly/36xDd8h
longnguyen 6y ago
We usually play songs by Super Simple Song for my kids and recently I cannot play any song using Alexa. It always plays the "sing along" version no matter what
greengrom 6y ago
Haha, cool

585 points by I-M-S 6y ago

Every time this topic comes up on here the comments are full of complaints about 1) privacy and 2) broken ux. I have to ask why do you even bother? I’ve never once thought I wish I didn’t have to pick up my phone got 5 seconds to do something simple.

Kaze404 6y ago
It's incredibly handy when cooking. "Hey Google set up a 15 minutes timer", "Hey Google how many teaspoons is in a cup?", etc while you have your hands dirty / busy.
- rorykoehler 6y ago
  That’s an awful trade off.
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    How is it a trade off? You can use it for the things it's good at, and not use it for the things it sucks at. Seems fine to me.
    - rorykoehler 6y ago
      Privacy is also a concern.
- cthor 6y ago
  Could just turn the knob on your oven's timer and use a measuring jug.
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    Not all ovens have timers, not all measuring jugs have all necessary units and I my phone is not only more practical but also more available than one.
- mackrevinack 6y ago
  no doubt its useful for that but is it really worth it considering the price? arent most assistants powered by batteries so it also has an ongoing cost, especially if you have multiple devices? all that just to add a timer 3-5 seconds quicker? and then there's still other issues like privacy or the thing being an expensive paperweight if you're Internet isn't working
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    Definitely. I wouldn't consider buying an assistant for that. I just use my phone really, since it's free and I have it on me at all times anyway.

aerovistae 6y ago

Would this work though? You would have to say "Ok google, play 'okay google play music"", wouldn't you?

ericbarrett 6y ago
"Ok Google, play...um...Ok Google, play music"

MaxBarraclough 6y ago

Cleaner link: https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf I don't imagine it's likely to have the effect of confusing anyone's smart speaker, is it?

_the_inflator 6y ago
Siri would be way simpler to cheat. Siri on iPad often times reacts to Audible books...
fudged71 6y ago
I just tried on Google home and it wasn’t confused. I had to say “Ok Google play okay Google play music”

moron4hire 6y ago

What does it do? I don't have a Spotify account.

grawprog 6y ago
No idea I don't have Spotify or use any google assistant stuff, but i'm guessing it's supposed to make it so if you try to open google play music using a voice assistant, it'll instead play that album from Spotify. Maybe as a joke, maybe as a way to try and get a bunch of artificial listens.
- moron4hire 6y ago
  Yeah, that's what other people are saying. Damn, that's kinda lame. I was hoping it was tracks of phrases starting "OK Google" to make your Google Home flip out and do weird shit. Wasted opportunity.
MontyCarloHall 6y ago
It’s generic filler music. It exists so that the uploader gets paid when someone says “OK Google play music” and the voice assistant inadvertently pulls up the album. Ingenious if it actually works.
ct0 6y ago
it doesn't work as you'd think, to play this specific album, you have to say "ok google, play, okay google play music".

renewiltord 6y ago

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the forced migration. EDIT: Okay, I went to verify it and this has to be the best instance of massive PEBKAC plus some UX donkeyness. The auto playlist is called "Your Likes" so I can get the Assistant to do the right thing by telling her to play her likes (Ok Google, play your likes). What the fuck man. But fine. At least I got it working. I've suffered with this for months and now I find a solution in the few minutes after posting this.

dylan604 6y ago
Think of the assistants as young children. As a reference, someone I know spent some time in Miami with his wife and 2 young kids. After some time, the young son told his dad that he wanted to go back to "yourhammy". The dad eventually decoded "yourhammy" was the kid's interpretation of Miami as My-hammy. Your Likes => My Likes reminded me of that story.
- notRobot 6y ago
  You shouldn't have to treat a Smart assistant like a child.
  - twicetwice 6y ago
    Children are really really smart—just not yet as smart as adults.
    - ajmurmann 6y ago
      I think children are probably at least as smart as adults, but are missing assumed context on almost everything. Maybe the same is the real problem with smart assistance?

offtop5 6y ago

Can't say expected much , but he sounds like he uploaded a bunch of basic loops. If your gonna do this at least bring real content

hackstack 6y ago
I don't know, I thought Vulfpeck's "Sleepify" hit the nail on the head without bringing any "real" content.
- colejohnson66 6y ago
  I’m partial to John Cage’s 4’33

chente 6y ago

Feel like this is a natural byproduct of the SEOization of Spotify. https://www.inputmag.com/culture/manipulated-seo-made-your-generic-spotify-background-music https://www.inputmag.com/culture/manipulated-seo-made-your-g...

AirMax98 6y ago
Modern equivalent of how pop tracks were optimized for a 6 second ringtone in the mid-2000s.

enw 6y ago

Does the voice recognition understand “Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music”?

TerminalWarrior 6y ago
I'm about to drop my next album in early 2021, "Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music"
natex 6y ago
hah or even "Ok Google Play Ok Google Play Music on Google Play Music"

jjulius 6y ago

Vaguely reminiscent of when Marco V released a track called "C:\ del *.mp3"[0] out of frustration towards mp3 rips. Still amusing to me that he didn't quite get the command right. [0]https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/133498 https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/1334...

ArchOversight 6y ago
I never knew that was the reason the track was named that! One of my favorites.
depingus 6y ago
The other day a song called S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264 by Blood Command appeared in my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought someone messed up, but no...that's the name of song!
- quesera 6y ago
  Mr. Robot episode names are also fun: "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" "shutdown -r" "404 Not Found" Etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes
- notRobot 6y ago
  In case anyone else wants to listen to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AdsnyhToo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AdsnyhToo
- dhritzkiv 6y ago
  Points off for not including a release group (e.g. RARBG, KOGi, STRONTRIUM, etc.)
  - mckirk 6y ago
    It's possible they just didn't want to get sued by the group for trademark infringement.

thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago

I've worked on large music platforms and this kind of spam is always an ongoing battle. You'll see artists pop up with the same name as a popular song, songs named 'play [genre]', and all sorts of things.

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nondeveloper 6y ago

There has to be a term for this kind of thing. Keyword hijacking? Assistant crashing?

dragonwriter 6y ago
Its basically a specialized case of google bombing.

TheMagicHorsey 6y ago

Spotify's mobile app is honestly one of the worst f'in apps I have ever used. I have a family plan and both my wife and I have the same issues. First, Spotify has no idea how to pipe its playlists to Alexa and Google ... so you can't ever seem to get either to play playlists. Second, Spotify randomly decides sometimes that it won't connect to the Internet, even when your phone has a 4G connection and everything else works fine. To compound the issue, Spotify doesn't know how to show you your offline downloads when you are in Android Auto mode ... so you basically can't even play your songs when on a drive. I need to figure out how to export my playlists and then I'm off Spotify forever. Worse customer experience ever.

evan_ 6y ago
If you say "OK google play spotify playlist xxxxxx" it should work.

slg 6y ago

The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music". The bit would be much more effective if the album was just named "Music" and the tracks various genres. However then the fact that the name is a bit isn't even noticeable. There is a weird balancing act between the effectiveness of art and making it clear that what you are doing is art at all. This artist choice the latter.

jaynetics 6y ago
> The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music" the next step for it to go really viral would be to make the album consist only of various generic voices saying "ok google play ok google play music".
- tolbish 6y ago
  South Park did something like that. https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_kQJiogKCE https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_kQJiogKCE It's South Park, so the nsfw should be implied.
  - lostgame 6y ago
    This is understatedly one of the best tech pranks ever, especially recently. (The Max Headroom TV hacking incident comes to mind not-so-recently) Minutes into the episode Twitter was full of people posting about how it was messing with everyone's smart speakers. Tech comedy gold.
elefanten 6y ago
I took that to be the point; that in addition to all the title permutations, the user may have to prepend the command of whatever service they're using. This creates even more combinations and even more shenanigans.
gdw2 6y ago
What if you said, "Alexa play Ok Google Play Music"? Might be a scenario when both your Alexa and Google devices (e.g. android phones, etc) would start play music unintentionally.

rmorey 6y ago

Reminds me of "A a a a a Very Good Song" , a silent track designed to keep some random song starting with "a" from auto-playing when iTunes/Music/CarPlay opens: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-silent-track-single/1268932999 https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-si...

cortesoft 6y ago
My old car would always auto play `Aaron Burr, Sir` no matter how many times I tried to prevent it.
- robterrell 6y ago
  "A-Punk" for me. How do car manufacturers not notice things like this?
  - derwiki 6y ago
    Acid Rap for me
  - vokep 6y ago
    Oh god same here that "Dunananana nananana" is seared into my brain :(

allforJesse 6y ago

And thus, the voice-assistant-SEO wars began.

echelon 6y ago

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTube parody videos into my playlist. Why the hell would I want to listen to stuff like this https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco ? I hate Google so much now. They're like evil 90's Microsoft, but incompetent. They've got their ad monopoly / web destruction engine to sustain them, but they're Dilbert Pointy Haired Boss bad with everything else. No gamers will be surprised when Stadia gets canned. It'll be hilarious when they decide to shutter GCP. Remember when it leaked that they were internally threatening to defund it if they couldn't hit growth targets? Imagine all their B2B relationships getting hit as hard as their consumers do.

judge2020 6y ago
> YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. Just dislike these songs/videos. At first all I did was play playlists I already had in YT since the 'my mix' (now "my supermix") playlist had random songs I listened to 5 years ago, but after about a week of using the 'my mix' and disliking songs, I started getting a bunch of great songs from artists that I otherwise had no idea about.
- ortusdux 6y ago
  The problem is, OP already did this. So did I. How much in-fighting is there at google that they couldn't just port over the data? Right now I'm pissed that Google tv doesn't have a working account switcher. If my wife watches music videos it retrains my YouTube music. Also, youtube music sucks when it comes to spotty connections and file management. I have fiber at work and home, unmetered 4g, and 100gig free space on my phone. Why doesn't it just download everything? I loose service for hours on end and I come to find that it has either not saved any songs or it has deleted everything it can. Today I started an album and then hit a dead spot, and it had deleted all the songs before the track I was on, and not qeued up the rest of the album. Google music had a setting where you could tell it to allocate gigs of space and keep it full. This push to simplify user experiences is why I avoid apple, and I hate seeing it creep into google. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/30/google-tv-is-perfect-for-your-living-room-as-long-as-youre-the-only-one-watching/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/30/google-tv-is-perfec...

ohdannyboy 6y ago

So now we know that Bobby Tables grew up to be a musician. (https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/)

golemotron 6y ago

There was a band named 'Various Artists' but no one could find their albums.

keypusher 6y ago
The 90's band Self has a similar issue.

ISL 6y ago

Little Bobby Tables is growing up. (https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/)

mgkimsal 6y ago

The artist is 'drumkoon' and has a bunch of similar album titles and songs... https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X9HMvCAb5RiZhcwekJLNY https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X9HMvCAb5RiZhcwekJLNY "Hey Alexa Play Music" and "Hey Siri Play Music" with tracks like "OK Alexa Play Lofi".

17a9f4a4f4e5b3f 6y ago

Some years ago I went to do something by voice and wanted to cancel "Ok Google ... nevermind" and then it played Nevermind by Nirvana. Thought that was goofy, I didn't ask to play music or anything.

bsimpson 6y ago
"OK Google, play Glass Animals" while riding my motorcycle. Google starts reading me the Wikipedia page for Glass Animals.

lc3sim 6y ago

Remember back when Apple was running ads for Chance the Rapper's debut album (Apple Music exclusive) "Coloring Book?" Apple was also pushing a lot into Siri. I can't recall the specifics, but I thought the ad had Chance saying "hey siri play coloring book." So, I asked Siri the above prompt. Siri took me to Apple Music and played an album with the name "Coloring Book" but by a different artist.

cwmma 6y ago

My wife used to always says "Hey Google Play Smooth Jazz" when we got a google home, so since it was hooked up to my spotify, I made a new playlist called "Smooth Jazz" that simply contained "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
Maybe Careless Whisper too while it's at it.
- YetAnotherNick 6y ago
  You totally missed the joke
  - bigwavedave 6y ago
    I don't think they did. Rick Rolling is fairly common- the commenter you replied to suggested "Careless Whisper" in addition to the Rick Roll because it would be a careless whisper that would cause the Rick Roll to play. They were adding a layer to the original joke. At least, that's what it seemed like to me.
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alpb 6y ago

He has an Alexa version as well https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr, but I highly doubt these actually will work due to the reason listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278964.

AlphaWeaver 6y ago

For a while, I had a Spotify playlist called "My Playlist called My Playlist" so I could say "Hey Google, play my playlist called 'My Playlist called My Playlist'"

acid__ 6y ago

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

pradn 6y ago
As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It's too much. :)
- xd1936 6y ago
  Agreed. And I have a small child. I _really_ don't want them to be forming "relationships" with brands by asking robot assistants named after corporations to do stuff.
  - malandrew 6y ago
    You can also think of it as a robot assistant that is named after a number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers
    - pinewurst 6y ago
      No, we're their numbers...
    - medium_burrito 6y ago
      Like that makes it any better. "I am not a number I am a free man!"

hi41 6y ago

I can't play the song without a spotify account. Is there any other website where I can hear the song. TIA

fungiblecog 6y ago

Anybody who uses a "smart assistant" is either easily amused or likes to suffer... They are the embodiment of why the current AI fad will end up like the last one. No intelligence at all.

dukeofdoom 6y ago

Trump should tweet "Multiple election sources called this election differently" would be hilarious. Twitter has been mocking him for a long time now with this line. But would take on the opposite meaning if he tweeted it, because its a pretty a stupid vague statement, that implies the election has multiple people calling it differently...or in other words is disputed.

princevegeta89 6y ago

"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!

cwkoss 6y ago
Privacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.
- tenacious_tuna 6y ago
  And Google Assistant doesn't? We quite often (~once a week, minimum) have our Home mini trigger off of some unrelated conversation. 50/50 on if "google" is ever mentioned, too.
- mritchie712 6y ago
  Right, Google was worried about privacy.
- sorenjan 6y ago
  My Google Mini gets triggered several times a night when I'm watching video. Maybe 1/3 of the time it's somebody saying "ok", but most of the time it seems to be random.
- sz4kerto 6y ago
  "Ok Google" gets triggered by stuff like "OK cool", that I often say. It's maddening.
  - Avamander 6y ago
    You can say "okay boomer" and it triggers.
- Steltek 6y ago

fest 6y ago

I wonder if you could have: a) song called Recursion on Spotify that has lyrics of "Ok Google, play Recursion on Play Music" b) a song with the same title but lyrics "Ok Google, play Recursion on spotify" on Play Music (or whatever it's called now).

loisaidasam 6y ago

Also available on Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb

llacb47 6y ago

Get rid of the tracking parameters in the url, thank you.

demadog 6y ago

It’s too bad the songs don’t line up with the titles. He could have had actual listeners! Play Workout Music song is a chill meditation song...

imheretolearn 6y ago

I recall a funny incident where I was having a slack call with a colleague and I said something on the lines of "Ok Google it". Their Google assistant was enabled and it repeated the last command which was very NSFW. I couldn't control my laughter and we had a nice little laughing break over it

jonnycomputer 6y ago

I've had moderate luck with podcasts; I use Google's podcast app, and want voice commands when driving. But it only works 50-70% of the time, and only with some of the podcasts. I'd much rather just have the ability to set trigger words that execute macros. Really, there are only a few of them that i need regularly.

lucasgonze 6y ago

This violates one of the terms of the iTunes Music Style Guide. You're not allowed to reference Apple's competitors. So, yeah, iTunes might well refuse to carry it.

ada1981 6y ago

Can someone explain to me what exactly this does or how it interacts with Alexa? If I say that command, surely this isn’t now going to play, or is it?

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freewilly1040 6y ago

Similarly, there’s a podcast called the “Bill Simmons Podcast Podcast”, which one of my voice assistants consistently chooses rather than the real one.

makecheck 6y ago

The default responses for assistants are getting much worse, to the point where a misheard phrase can do a lot of things you don’t want instead of just stopping immediately. My favorite misfeature is babbling. Used to be you could just say “off” to stop a misinterpreted command, which worked fine because the assistant didn’t used to babble. Now though, its own rambling follow-ups interfere with its ability to even hear you desperately saying “no! off! stop! shut up! cancel!”. And my new favorite, every command response ending with an unsolicited “BY THE WAY: $thing_i_did_not_ask_for”.

curiousllama 6y ago
I almost threw my thing against the wall when it did that after a 6am alarm

sabujp 6y ago

LOL he has an alexa one too : https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr

BurningFrog 6y ago

It's like Bobby Tables grew up and became an artist.

bhhaskin 6y ago

Fun fact. shuffle doesn't on playlists larger than 25 songs work on YT Music. How did they manage to mess up something so simple as shuffling songs.

bravoetch 6y ago

This guy went the extra mile and put ads for himself at the end of each track.

ibdf 6y ago

I have noticed that my Google assistant is getting less smart by the day. It used to understand a lot more, now it keeps playing the wrong thing or turning off all the lights instead of one... or it won’t stop the alarm when you say stop. It’s been getting really frustrating... I would be more upset but they pretty much give those mini speakers away any chance they get.

martyvis 6y ago

Yesterday, while listening to a song in the car, I asked Google Assistant to "play more of this album", and of course I it began playing a song called "More Of This" by an unknown band rather than what you would think would have been an obvious assistance.

riffnote 6y ago

Does he work in SEO too?

kseifried 6y ago

Try getting an Alexa/Siri or whatever to play "Radio" by Rammstein. Come back when you're done listening to random top 40 radio or being told there is no Rammstein radio station and click the link below to hear the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI

corytheboyd 6y ago

What a dunk on a bad excuse for an advertising espionage tool. I fully support this level of pettiness.

thedonkeycometh 6y ago

Alexa Play notifications gets all manner of crazy for me

0x6A75616E 6y ago

or, how to get sued by Google for trademark infringement

schwartzworld 6y ago

My daughter almost always asks Google Home to play songs with made up words for titles. Google almost always responds with hip hop, almost always super inappropriate. I love it.

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Schwolop 6y ago

Dear Google/Alexa/Cortana/Siri product managers in the streaming audio space, here is what we actually want: * "never play that song ever again" * "add <artist> to my blocked list" * "set the plays limit for Baby Shark to once per day" * a feature that prevents interpretation of any phrase leading to the same result, if the response to that result led to a "stop!" or "for fuck's sake!" within the next ten seconds. i.e. stop doing the same incorrect thing over and over again if it's clear that it's not the desired outcome. * "play that song I said I liked a few days ago" * "shuffle my favourite songs" We don't want to block explicit lyrics, some of our favourite songs have swear words in them. We want to block entire artists who are simply awful. We don't want you to get the song wrong and be forced to yell "stop!" until you shut up. We want to make it clear that not only was that the wrong song, we also never want you to ever think it could possibly be the right song. We want the magic of our kids being able to play their music on demand, but without the headaches that come from kids being total assholes most of the time. We want you - our voice assistant - to assist us, not provoke us to rage. You've made a useful tool. You've made a fun gimmick. But now it's time to make it a pleasant experience, because right now it just plain isn't.

enobrev 6y ago
Google has responded correctly to "never play that song again" for me in the past. Same with "hey google, fuck this song". I don't know if it explicitly "downvoted" the song or not, but the song was immediately skipped and I hadn't heard it any time soon after. That said, I've refrained from using my google puck in recent months and it had been regressing pretty heavily when I did, so I can't guarantee that still works.
- Schwolop 6y ago
  Yeah, I'm sure some providers do support some of my feature requests here. But definitely not a single one supports all of them (or I'd have moved to it!) Amazon Music, for example, supports this blocking only for songs in their pre-built playlists. It's little constraints like that that contribute to the frustration.
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userbinator 6y ago

How about an album called "Ok Google Play \"Ok Google Play Music\""... It's amusing to think that there is an elegant solution to this problem in text --- quoting --- which unfortunately a lot of the population doesn't understand beyond one level at most, but also cannot easily be expressed verbally.

musicale 6y ago

Skynet is coming.

flatfilefan 6y ago

I wonder, why it is still not possible to spell the words you want to say if they are not recognized by the voice assistant?

throwaheyy 6y ago

Reminds me of a South Park episode. Cartman and Alexa - https://youtu.be/ESt7CTZiXqY?t=123 https://youtu.be/ESt7CTZiXqY?t=123

surround 6y ago

The submission url contains these tracking parameters: ?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2020-12-02) Here’s the url with the tracking parameters removed: https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf

victor9000 6y ago

How is it that we still don't have custom wake words on any smart home platform? I don't want to say your stupid name, I want my own wake command.

WalterBright 6y ago

Please don't name your song "Launch Nuclear Missiles".

shp0ngle 6y ago

I see it comes after his other hits, "Hey Alexa Play Music" and "Hey Google Play Morning Music" https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/1iQQXhqMVoQhi9p9JpoxXr https://open.spotify.com/album/6gNlCarKcZL0yIXnOKa8Tw https://open.spotify.com/album/6gNlCarKcZL0yIXnOKa8Tw

calt 6y ago

If this was good music I would applaud the ingenuity. However, it's handpan music, which I like, but it's so poorly recorded that it's... just wow. Bad. Lot's of annoying high end reverberation and a ground loop hum on one track I listened to. And every track ends with vocals saying "this was drumkoon."

stubish 6y ago

Is anyone working on touch screen home assistant interfaces? I think some Alexa devices have a mode, but they still seem primarily designed for speech and I think of limited use to mutes. And judging by other comments, seems like a lot of other people want something more discoverable than trying random phrases and hoping for the best.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

So, I don't have spotify - anyone listen to this, is it any good? Is it actually representative of the genre it is supposed to be in, or is it a put on like some industrial noise?

kindohm 6y ago

Not seeing any comments here about the music itself. I enjoyed it: a soothing soundtrack for the beginning of my work day.

chuch 6y ago

I don't really understand : If someone say "Ok Google, play Music", the home assistant will search for a song called "music", not "Ok Google Play Music" ? What is wrong here ?

sudheerbabu 6y ago

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sudheerbabu 6y ago

Hello HN, The below link is not working. Please check Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify https://bit.ly/36xDd8h https://bit.ly/36xDd8h

longnguyen 6y ago

We usually play songs by Super Simple Song for my kids and recently I cannot play any song using Alexa. It always plays the "sing along" version no matter what

greengrom 6y ago

Haha, cool