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It's infuriating when I ask Siri to play a song and it decides to pick an obscure remix of the song one day, the actual song another day, then another remix ano

It's infuriating when I ask Siri to play a song and it decides to pick an obscure remix of the song one day, the actual song another day, then another remix another day. Did they test this at all? Why would you ever pick a more complex/verbose option from the results list?

ryanjshaw 3y ago
You get the same issues on Android. There is zero intelligence, it's embarrassing. You can have a song in your library that you've listened to every day of your life, but it'll still decide you actually want to listen to some weird track you've never heard of just because the names are similar.
- naravara 3y ago
  It gets real bad if you listen to music in a language other than the language you have Siri set to. It's attempts at deciphering Japanese punk or Bollywood song titles are terrible. It also has a habit of invoking whenever I say "Hi sweetie" to my neighbor's dog.
ciroduran 3y ago
I stopped using Siri because it does recognise the artist/song I want, and then it plays a completely different thing, not even a related genre.
wincy 3y ago
I understand this isn’t necessarily Apple’s fault, but I bought a HomePod (which are very expensive smart speakers!) because I assumed it’d be the most convenient “smart” speaker with good audio quality. It does deliver on audio quality, but despite supporting literally every other smart speaker under the sun Spotify has no support for HomePod and instead you have to AirPlay from your phone. So my kid can’t listen to Spotify, and the HomePod is useless to anyone but me or my wife.
- mostlysimilar 3y ago
  I think this is Spotify's fault. They're in a weird feud with Apple and won't properly support their app on all of Apple's platforms. I don't know who they think they're winning over but it just makes me dislike them more, I'll pick the Apple ecosystem over their app if push comes to shove.
khazhoux 3y ago
I wound up in a screaming match with my Homepod recently. “Siri, play Beethoven” <plays a Beethoven-derived hiphop track> !!!
- wincy 3y ago
  Hahah yeah I said “Siri play classical music on Spotify” and siri said “I’m afraid I can’t do that” and then starting playing Sabaton (which is Power metal and the exact opposite of classical music). Then Siri had the gall to claim NO MUSIC WAS PLAYING as this super loud music was assaulting our eardrums. My wife thought my exasperated struggles were the funniest thing, it felt like HAL-9000 with the “I’m sorry I can’t do that Dave” moment.
  - sofixa 3y ago
    > Hahah yeah I said “Siri play classical music on Spotify” and siri said “I’m afraid I can’t do that” and then starting playing Sabaton (which is Power metal and the exact opposite of classical music). As a Sabaton fan, I laughed out loud. Technically they have classic music sounding (roughly) songs, e.g. Christmas Truce, but yeah, that's a massive fail.
  - strix_varius 3y ago
    I've had the exact same experience with Google Home. "Play music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker starts blaring music at high volume) "Turn down dining room speaker." (No response) "HEY, GOOGLE. Stop music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker music volume decreases) (from the dining room speaker) "Can't find dining room speaker." (dining room speaker volume increases, blaring music) I did follow the advice here to rename all my speakers lowercase, since google home's VOICE interface seems case-sensitive: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_understand_you_but_i_dont_understand_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_unders... And since the Google Home android app is, literally, the worst and least-reliable mobile application I've ever used, the voice interface is pretty much all I've got.
- dxhdr 3y ago
  Had the same experience at a friends house trying to get Alexa to play Bach. I gave up after a half dozen attempts. These products are just hilariously bad.
dabluecaboose 3y ago
One of the most infuriating things about any voice assistant, IMO, is the absolute clunkiness with which you have to try and control music. I use Android Auto in my car for safety. God forbid I'm listening to a song and want to queue up another one right after. I don't think I've ever gotten that behavior to work without either skipping the current song or adding the second song to the end of the queue. And even that's assuming that it even recognized the proper song out of my library and didn't try to go to Youtube or something. Meanwhile, if my buddy is riding shotgun, I can just say "Hey, put on Peace of Mind next"
- wincy 3y ago
  I switched from Apple Music to Spotify and have yet to figure out how to get it to play a playlist. So it’s either “tap on the screen while hurtling down the highway” or “awkwardly tell it to play each individual song after each one completes”.
ergocoder 3y ago
Ok Google doesn't work well either. 20% of the time it can't play songs on Spotify, and I have no idea why.
- wincy 3y ago
  I think part of this might be Spotify’s fault. I moved from Apple Music to Spotify Premium and my biggest complaint (aside from literally one SPECIFIC song I really love not being on Spotify at all) is that there is no HomePod support (you have to airplay the music to the HomePod) and Siri support is shoddy.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
  I assume it’s because as the number of features increased, the accuracy of recognising specific phrases went down. The eggcorn in the machine.
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ryanjshaw 3y ago

You get the same issues on Android. There is zero intelligence, it's embarrassing. You can have a song in your library that you've listened to every day of your life, but it'll still decide you actually want to listen to some weird track you've never heard of just because the names are similar.

naravara 3y ago
It gets real bad if you listen to music in a language other than the language you have Siri set to. It's attempts at deciphering Japanese punk or Bollywood song titles are terrible. It also has a habit of invoking whenever I say "Hi sweetie" to my neighbor's dog.

ciroduran 3y ago

I stopped using Siri because it does recognise the artist/song I want, and then it plays a completely different thing, not even a related genre.

wincy 3y ago

I understand this isn’t necessarily Apple’s fault, but I bought a HomePod (which are very expensive smart speakers!) because I assumed it’d be the most convenient “smart” speaker with good audio quality. It does deliver on audio quality, but despite supporting literally every other smart speaker under the sun Spotify has no support for HomePod and instead you have to AirPlay from your phone. So my kid can’t listen to Spotify, and the HomePod is useless to anyone but me or my wife.

mostlysimilar 3y ago
I think this is Spotify's fault. They're in a weird feud with Apple and won't properly support their app on all of Apple's platforms. I don't know who they think they're winning over but it just makes me dislike them more, I'll pick the Apple ecosystem over their app if push comes to shove.

khazhoux 3y ago

I wound up in a screaming match with my Homepod recently. “Siri, play Beethoven” <plays a Beethoven-derived hiphop track> !!!

wincy 3y ago
Hahah yeah I said “Siri play classical music on Spotify” and siri said “I’m afraid I can’t do that” and then starting playing Sabaton (which is Power metal and the exact opposite of classical music). Then Siri had the gall to claim NO MUSIC WAS PLAYING as this super loud music was assaulting our eardrums. My wife thought my exasperated struggles were the funniest thing, it felt like HAL-9000 with the “I’m sorry I can’t do that Dave” moment.
- sofixa 3y ago
  > Hahah yeah I said “Siri play classical music on Spotify” and siri said “I’m afraid I can’t do that” and then starting playing Sabaton (which is Power metal and the exact opposite of classical music). As a Sabaton fan, I laughed out loud. Technically they have classic music sounding (roughly) songs, e.g. Christmas Truce, but yeah, that's a massive fail.
- strix_varius 3y ago
  I've had the exact same experience with Google Home. "Play music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker starts blaring music at high volume) "Turn down dining room speaker." (No response) "HEY, GOOGLE. Stop music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker music volume decreases) (from the dining room speaker) "Can't find dining room speaker." (dining room speaker volume increases, blaring music) I did follow the advice here to rename all my speakers lowercase, since google home's VOICE interface seems case-sensitive: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_understand_you_but_i_dont_understand_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_unders... And since the Google Home android app is, literally, the worst and least-reliable mobile application I've ever used, the voice interface is pretty much all I've got.
dxhdr 3y ago
Had the same experience at a friends house trying to get Alexa to play Bach. I gave up after a half dozen attempts. These products are just hilariously bad.

dabluecaboose 3y ago

One of the most infuriating things about any voice assistant, IMO, is the absolute clunkiness with which you have to try and control music. I use Android Auto in my car for safety. God forbid I'm listening to a song and want to queue up another one right after. I don't think I've ever gotten that behavior to work without either skipping the current song or adding the second song to the end of the queue. And even that's assuming that it even recognized the proper song out of my library and didn't try to go to Youtube or something. Meanwhile, if my buddy is riding shotgun, I can just say "Hey, put on Peace of Mind next"

wincy 3y ago
I switched from Apple Music to Spotify and have yet to figure out how to get it to play a playlist. So it’s either “tap on the screen while hurtling down the highway” or “awkwardly tell it to play each individual song after each one completes”.

ergocoder 3y ago

Ok Google doesn't work well either. 20% of the time it can't play songs on Spotify, and I have no idea why.

wincy 3y ago
I think part of this might be Spotify’s fault. I moved from Apple Music to Spotify Premium and my biggest complaint (aside from literally one SPECIFIC song I really love not being on Spotify at all) is that there is no HomePod support (you have to airplay the music to the HomePod) and Siri support is shoddy.
2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
I assume it’s because as the number of features increased, the accuracy of recognising specific phrases went down. The eggcorn in the machine.

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