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Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or somethi

by IanCal 3y ago

Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.

philshem 3y ago
I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.
- usui 3y ago
  It is, or at least facetious
- djjzjshdhhd 3y ago
  It's a joke. Google Assistant is notoriously awful and at home we often kid that if we ask it to play 90's rock on Spotify it will play some animal documentary on Netflix. It's not too far from the truth.
  - IanCal 3y ago
    Oh I love that, you ask it for a song, it gets it wrong and thinks you want some video. Then it tries to play the video, can't and acts like you were daft for asking it to do that.
  - pgeorgi 3y ago
    > play 90's rock ... some animal documentary ... not too far from the truth Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?
- jaggederest 3y ago
  only somewhat sarcastic. At least once a week Alexa will play an off the wall unrelated song or a crazy cover of the desired song.
- IanCal 3y ago
  Semi-serious. It regularly picks up an entirely bizarre song, however in doing so it's also found some bangers. My kid loves diggy-diggy hole and it played the wind rose version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU) which is awesome. I asked for I wanna be like you for the kids and got the expected one a few times. Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0VpmaSBjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0VpmaSBjs) which became the new version for running around the room pretending to be a rollercoaster. These are covers at least, but it will also just play the weirdest mishearings of something. So semi-serious as I'm mocking it getting things wildly wrong, but also legitimately we discover new music this way.
  - scns 3y ago
    > Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAgWKuhIxDH1p8Z https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg... Allready diggin the first one of 100. Thank you sooo much!
  - scns 3y ago
    > Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAgWKuhIxDH1p8Z https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg... Allready diggin the first one of 100, 95 to go. Thank you!
    - IanCal 3y ago
      If you like this kind of thing, also checkout the radio 1 live lounge stuff. Been going for a long time so I think there's playlists with a couple of hundred songs and they'll be a small amount of the full sets. Often tends towards more acoustic but you can find some great covers.
- donor20 3y ago
  Somehow people have polluted and/or the assistants are too stupid to play well known songs from voice prompts. You get weird covers with clearly synthesized backing or random crap. It’s honestly weird. The covers shouldn’t even be on system half the time.
gwd 3y ago
Siri has been helpful for increasing my 3-year-old's vocabulary: he'll ask it to play a song he knows, and Siri will pick out an explicit R&B piece full of all sorts of words he's never been exposed to.</s> (Seriously -- there's a song with the title "The ABC Song", which as one might expect, is about the ABCs. But it's impossible to get it to play that via voice control; it only wants to play "abcdefu", which is not the same song at all, and has a very clear F-bomb 5 seconds in.)
- IanCal 3y ago
  Haha, the speed at which you need to be able to get it to stop is a key parenting skill. Saying that 4 seconds into a Tom Cardy song as my son says "but I love this one". Maybe this is why some people are so good at the intro round at pub quizzes, you've got a few seconds to identify the exact song that's playing and mentally run through the lyrics before making a call.
- manmal 3y ago
  I asked Siri today about the current week number (in German), and it failed. Just when I thought I've lowered my expectations enough, Siri can do one "better".
  - schoen 3y ago
    It might be a European vs. American cultural thing because week number is much less used in America, and Siri was developed by Americans. Maybe this is more of a localization failure than a generic functionality failure. If it gave you an answer that seemed wrong, well, there are also several slightly different definitions of week number, so it could be that it chose one that wasn't the one you expected (maybe also a localization failure).
  - 3c0 3y ago
    siri is honestly only good for basic question/answers. like "how is the weather going to be later" or "play X song", or "how old is X". i wish they integrated LLMs into personal assistants to truly have a conversational type experience
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by IanCal 3y ago

Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.

philshem 3y ago

I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.

usui 3y ago
It is, or at least facetious
djjzjshdhhd 3y ago
It's a joke. Google Assistant is notoriously awful and at home we often kid that if we ask it to play 90's rock on Spotify it will play some animal documentary on Netflix. It's not too far from the truth.
- IanCal 3y ago
  Oh I love that, you ask it for a song, it gets it wrong and thinks you want some video. Then it tries to play the video, can't and acts like you were daft for asking it to do that.
- pgeorgi 3y ago
  > play 90's rock ... some animal documentary ... not too far from the truth Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?
jaggederest 3y ago
only somewhat sarcastic. At least once a week Alexa will play an off the wall unrelated song or a crazy cover of the desired song.
IanCal 3y ago
Semi-serious. It regularly picks up an entirely bizarre song, however in doing so it's also found some bangers. My kid loves diggy-diggy hole and it played the wind rose version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU) which is awesome. I asked for I wanna be like you for the kids and got the expected one a few times. Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0VpmaSBjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0VpmaSBjs) which became the new version for running around the room pretending to be a rollercoaster. These are covers at least, but it will also just play the weirdest mishearings of something. So semi-serious as I'm mocking it getting things wildly wrong, but also legitimately we discover new music this way.
- scns 3y ago
  > Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAgWKuhIxDH1p8Z https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg... Allready diggin the first one of 100. Thank you sooo much!
- scns 3y ago
  > Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAgWKuhIxDH1p8Z https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg... Allready diggin the first one of 100, 95 to go. Thank you!
  - IanCal 3y ago
    If you like this kind of thing, also checkout the radio 1 live lounge stuff. Been going for a long time so I think there's playlists with a couple of hundred songs and they'll be a small amount of the full sets. Often tends towards more acoustic but you can find some great covers.
donor20 3y ago
Somehow people have polluted and/or the assistants are too stupid to play well known songs from voice prompts. You get weird covers with clearly synthesized backing or random crap. It’s honestly weird. The covers shouldn’t even be on system half the time.

gwd 3y ago

Siri has been helpful for increasing my 3-year-old's vocabulary: he'll ask it to play a song he knows, and Siri will pick out an explicit R&B piece full of all sorts of words he's never been exposed to.</s> (Seriously -- there's a song with the title "The ABC Song", which as one might expect, is about the ABCs. But it's impossible to get it to play that via voice control; it only wants to play "abcdefu", which is not the same song at all, and has a very clear F-bomb 5 seconds in.)

IanCal 3y ago
Haha, the speed at which you need to be able to get it to stop is a key parenting skill. Saying that 4 seconds into a Tom Cardy song as my son says "but I love this one". Maybe this is why some people are so good at the intro round at pub quizzes, you've got a few seconds to identify the exact song that's playing and mentally run through the lyrics before making a call.
manmal 3y ago
I asked Siri today about the current week number (in German), and it failed. Just when I thought I've lowered my expectations enough, Siri can do one "better".
- schoen 3y ago
  It might be a European vs. American cultural thing because week number is much less used in America, and Siri was developed by Americans. Maybe this is more of a localization failure than a generic functionality failure. If it gave you an answer that seemed wrong, well, there are also several slightly different definitions of week number, so it could be that it chose one that wasn't the one you expected (maybe also a localization failure).
- 3c0 3y ago
  siri is honestly only good for basic question/answers. like "how is the weather going to be later" or "play X song", or "how old is X". i wish they integrated LLMs into personal assistants to truly have a conversational type experience

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