Before Google Home came on the market I was able to use Google Assistant (and Google Home before that) to ask my phone to play particular songs or albums for instance I could say "OK Google play Iggy Pop - The Passenger" or "OK Google play Queens of the Stone Age - Villains (Album name)" and it would happily select it and play it.
Now since Google Home has appeared on the market if I ask the above I get a response saying that "Sorry the (insert Song title or Album name) isn't available in your area".
However this music is in my Google Play Music library and cached onto my phone so I don't see why I should pay for a subscription just to be able to get Google Assistant to play nicely with it.
In the end I have to ask Google Assistant to just play Iggy Pop (I can't select a particular album or track), then Google Play Music will try and play an Album I don't have and will usually have an error on the phone saying Offline playback not supported and then sometimes it will do nothing other times the whole app will crash.
I'm doing all of this whilst I'm driving so I can't have too much interaction with my phone, to try and manually select the music, so its a real pain.
I'm using a Google Pixel 2 XL, connected to my car via bluetooth.
Is anyone else seeing this problem and is there any remedy?
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After owning the MAXX for 2 months, I just discovered Motocast. It is pretty awesome, I can access files and music from my home computer. What I want to know is, is there an app from Google Play that works the same way? I have a friend who wants to stream her music files from her home computer while she is on the road.
Play Music, the default music app on the phone. You just need to install the Google Music Program on the computer and it will automatically make all music on the PC available for play and download from any devices synced to that Google account. You can also play all your music from your Google Music account anywhere you have internet access.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5tdXNpYyJd
Maybe I should have specified? She doesn't have a Motorola. I am looking for a Play app. Not what comes with my phone.
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She doesn't need a Motorola, just any Android phone and the Play Music App. Unless they've changed things the Play/Google Music app comes stock with Android phones. If not, she can download it in the Play Store. I gave you the link right there =p
Hey,
I am having an odd kind of problem with Google play music (version 5.01) on HTC Sensation running Elegancia Rom V 7.0.2
Initially when i install google play music and set it up by selecting my google account, it reads all the songs on my sd card and I am able to listen to all sd card music without any problems....but then on its own, after some time, the google play music app stops recognizing my songs and instead i see this screen(attached image 1) when i open the app.
(What you should normally see on opening the app should be something like attached image 2)
I am able to remedy this problem by going to clearing data in the app settings then opening app again and selecting account again...but i have to do it once almost every day, so its a drag..
Has any one else had this issue?
Hey.
I've got some difficulties understanding Google Play Music's behavior on Android.
When i put an album onto my external SD-card, Google Play Music correctly finds it and marks it with a blue, vertical pin, stating that this album is stored locally. I can neither pin it, nor unpin it because its not managed by the cloud. Makes sense so far.
But when i upload this same album into the Google Music-Cloud with my PC (using the Google Music Manager), Google Play Music on my Android device detects this and suddenly turns the album to a grey, angled pin...
When i click this pin it starts downloading the whole album. But this doesn't make sense, since it is already available offline.
I would say the pin should simply stay blue and thus prevent unnecessary downloading.
Another interesting thing is, that if I play this album while the pin is grey and angled, it seems to play the locally available ones without caching anything (I monitored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music ).
Am i doing something wrong or is this the desired behavior?
I would be glad about some comments on this.
Since 2 days i am getting this error, "Google Play services, which some of your applications rely on, is not supported by your device". Google play music, when i try to play the music it doesn't work, i found a work around open the google play store and then play the music it works, anyone else facing similar issue.
version : Google Play services 7.5.74 (1997312-438)
anything to do with the Greenify app, because i have opted to forcefully greenify google play service, when i manually open the google play store in the background it open the play service and music can be played.
eagledipesh said:
Since 2 days i am getting this error, "Google Play services, which some of your applications rely on, is not supported by your device". Google play music, when i try to play the music it doesn't work, i found a work around open the google play store and then play the music it works, anyone else facing similar issue.
version : Google Play services 7.5.74 (1997312-438)
anything to do with the Greenify app, because i have opted to forcefully greenify google play service, when i manually open the google play store in the background it open the play service and music can be played.
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Yes. Do not greenigy Play services, since a lot of apps rely them on. Use Privacy Guard do disable the features you do not want.
eagledipesh said:
Since 2 days i am getting this error, "Google Play services, which some of your applications rely on, is not supported by your device". Google play music, when i try to play the music it doesn't work, i found a work around open the google play store and then play the music it works, anyone else facing similar issue.
version : Google Play services 7.5.74 (1997312-438)
anything to do with the Greenify app, because i have opted to forcefully greenify google play service, when i manually open the google play store in the background it open the play service and music can be played.
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Seems obvious to me, don't Greenify apps like that. It's like Greenify-ing the phone app and then wondering why you're not receiving any calls.
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten any coverage from any android site thus far. If you have local music files (aka not streaming, files you've uploaded to google play music) you can no longer play these files with voice commands. Google claims to be looking into it but it hasn't been fixed in months.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/kFCECV935SU;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/category$3Aandroid%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
is the only place i can find talking about it.
is anyone else having this problem and unhappy about it?
knives of ice said:
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten any coverage from any android site thus far. If you have local music files (aka not streaming, files you've uploaded to google play music) you can no longer play these files with voice commands. Google claims to be looking into it but it hasn't been fixed in months.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/kFCECV935SU;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/category$3Aandroid%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
is the only place i can find talking about it.
is anyone else having this problem and unhappy about it?
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I just got a new phone and I guess my old Nexus 5 (which I had upgraded to Nougat) didn't seem to have a problem but my new LG V30 has it. I can't seem to call on music like I used to, just by saying an artist or an artist and a song. I am not playing locally stored music (although that would also be nice) but music that I uploaded to the Google Play Music library. A terrible decision if this is how it is going to be.
knives of ice said:
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten any coverage from any android site thus far. If you have local music files (aka not streaming, files you've uploaded to google play music) you can no longer play these files with voice commands. Google claims to be looking into it but it hasn't been fixed in months.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/kFCECV935SU;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/category$3Aandroid%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
is the only place i can find talking about it.
is anyone else having this problem and unhappy about it?
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I'm running Nougat on my Xperia Z5.
When I tell the Google Assistant «Play the song "track title"», it searches in YouTube and tries to open YouTube app. However, sometimes it plays it from my local storage using Google Play Music app.
But whenever I disconnect my phone from internet, Google Assistant always plays the song from phone's local storage using the same command.
By the way, it's very irritating that I have to turn off Wi-Fi and mobile data whenever I wanna play a song from my phone's storage.