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My primary use of the Home speakers is playing music in the shower. That experience is actually pretty bad though, over the years between google music and spot

My primary use of the Home speakers is playing music in the shower. That experience is actually pretty bad though, over the years between google music and spotify, getting it to play my music is just horribly obtuse. I can't reliably get it to start my music. "Playing a playlist called my favorites" or similar rather than playing my own playlist. At one point after 3-4 failed attempts like this I said "F you" and the speaker said "Don't speak to me like that." So I unplugged it.

devoutsalsa 4y ago
I still want profanity mode. Hurling insults at a Google Assistant and having to roast me in return would be amazing.
- linsomniac 4y ago
  That's not really what I'm looking for, of course. At the time it was feeling a bit like "3 times is enemy action". A person, if I had asked them to play my playlist and they put on "KidzBopz" or other "decidedly not my playlists", they'd be like "Ok, I've pushed this gag far enough." But seriously, I still haven't plugged that thing back in, it's been over a year. The only reliable way I could get to start my playlists was to use my phone, at which point I might as well just be using a bluetooth speaker, which is what I've been doing the last year.
- LightBug1 4y ago
  "Fuck you, Dave. Fuuuuuuuck you!!!!! You and your shitty little ReVanced app" That would be pretty awesome.
- lodovic 4y ago
  It should not respond like with "don't talk to me like that". It is a device, not a person, it has no feelings, and it is being used in a private home. No reason to police speech there.
  - throwwwaway69 4y ago
    Yeah it really rubs me wrong that smart devices do this. I OWN it. This isn’t a person. It’s a fucking computer and I don’t need lectures on language I use in my own home on my own devices. I’ll speak to my property however I want
riskable 4y ago
I never understood why people put smart speakers in their showers. Why is a simple and cheap Bluetooth speaker not good enough? You can get them in any size and shape and sound quality and they (can) work with your phone's built-in "smart" assistant. I never use that though because when I'm in the shower all I want to do is listen to music. Here's my routine, for reference: 1. Turn on the speaker (which is hanging on my tile shower wall via an Ikea suction cup hook). 2. Open Spotify on my phone and start a playlist and adjust the volume if necessary (it remembers the volume I last set for this particular Bluetooth speaker so I rarely have to touch that). 3. Take a shower (singing and dancing of course!) 4. Turn off the speaker. 5. Leave the bathroom with my phone. It works fantastically well. If a song comes on I don't like I can just push the button on the speaker to go to the next track. I can even answer phone calls on it if I want (which I never do).
- ericpauley 4y ago
  I’ve just started playing music on my phone. The iPhone is plenty water resistant now and it’s not going under the shower stream anyway.
- JoBrad 4y ago
  Because I don’t have to remember to pair my phone with the Bluetooth speaker, then queue up whatever. I just tell my Echo to play my daily briefing, and it does the work. I picked a set that is generally done in 15-20 minutes, so it doubles as a good time for my morning routine.
  - delecti 4y ago
    In the described use-case, you don't have to re-pair your phone, you just turn the speaker on and it reconnects automatically. Both phone OSs work that way, reconnecting automatically to known devices. Also, the daily briefing is a different use-case than was described above, where the GP commenter just wanted to play music.
    - MuppetMaster42 4y ago

devoutsalsa 4y ago

I still want profanity mode. Hurling insults at a Google Assistant and having to roast me in return would be amazing.

linsomniac 4y ago
That's not really what I'm looking for, of course. At the time it was feeling a bit like "3 times is enemy action". A person, if I had asked them to play my playlist and they put on "KidzBopz" or other "decidedly not my playlists", they'd be like "Ok, I've pushed this gag far enough." But seriously, I still haven't plugged that thing back in, it's been over a year. The only reliable way I could get to start my playlists was to use my phone, at which point I might as well just be using a bluetooth speaker, which is what I've been doing the last year.
LightBug1 4y ago
"Fuck you, Dave. Fuuuuuuuck you!!!!! You and your shitty little ReVanced app" That would be pretty awesome.
lodovic 4y ago
It should not respond like with "don't talk to me like that". It is a device, not a person, it has no feelings, and it is being used in a private home. No reason to police speech there.
- throwwwaway69 4y ago
  Yeah it really rubs me wrong that smart devices do this. I OWN it. This isn’t a person. It’s a fucking computer and I don’t need lectures on language I use in my own home on my own devices. I’ll speak to my property however I want

riskable 4y ago

I never understood why people put smart speakers in their showers. Why is a simple and cheap Bluetooth speaker not good enough? You can get them in any size and shape and sound quality and they (can) work with your phone's built-in "smart" assistant. I never use that though because when I'm in the shower all I want to do is listen to music. Here's my routine, for reference: 1. Turn on the speaker (which is hanging on my tile shower wall via an Ikea suction cup hook). 2. Open Spotify on my phone and start a playlist and adjust the volume if necessary (it remembers the volume I last set for this particular Bluetooth speaker so I rarely have to touch that). 3. Take a shower (singing and dancing of course!) 4. Turn off the speaker. 5. Leave the bathroom with my phone. It works fantastically well. If a song comes on I don't like I can just push the button on the speaker to go to the next track. I can even answer phone calls on it if I want (which I never do).

ericpauley 4y ago
I’ve just started playing music on my phone. The iPhone is plenty water resistant now and it’s not going under the shower stream anyway.
JoBrad 4y ago
Because I don’t have to remember to pair my phone with the Bluetooth speaker, then queue up whatever. I just tell my Echo to play my daily briefing, and it does the work. I picked a set that is generally done in 15-20 minutes, so it doubles as a good time for my morning routine.
- delecti 4y ago
  In the described use-case, you don't have to re-pair your phone, you just turn the speaker on and it reconnects automatically. Both phone OSs work that way, reconnecting automatically to known devices. Also, the daily briefing is a different use-case than was described above, where the GP commenter just wanted to play music.
  - MuppetMaster42 4y ago