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Voice control on Android

fLukeozade — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:57:34 GMT

Ride a motorcycle and would like to be able to change songs etc by voice control over bluetooth. Spotify will start playing a track of my choice when I start up, but if I request a new track "play xxx by xxx in Spotify" I get the Android voice acknowledgement but the current track keeps playing.

It works occasionally, but mostly just does nothing. Experimenting, I can occasionally get it to switch tracks after giving a null command to google (i.e. press to talk, say nothing, then it finishes, then Spotify plays the next track) or by telling Spotify to "stop music", and it then starts the new track. Very inconsistent though.

Recently switched from Google Play Music All Access which worked perfectly. Will switch back if can't get this 100% operational in the next 30 days (premium trial period).

Any out there any help?

Luke

Re: Voice control on Android

mbarna — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:32:03 GMT

I'd just like to confirm having the same issue on a Nexus 5x running Android 7.0, and Spotify version 6.3.0.882. Also, as per the thread below, there appear to be several other people having the same issue, across a number of devices (including the Galaxy S7), and other Android versions (Marshmallow specifically). See: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Google-Now-doesn-t-play-Spotify-music/td-p/1421087

Re: Voice control on Android

heathjabs — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 02:20:32 GMT

The problem I'm having is that the google viuce feature completely hijacks spitify once i plug in the headphones. Even when i listen in offline mode google voice cistantly interrupts asking me 'if i just said something' often ti the point where i can't listen at all because google voice is so out of control it is interruptung itself, skipping tracks, turning volume all the way down, shutting music off entirely, etc. It's maddening. Please help.

Re: Voice control on Android

j4ck13 — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:41:56 GMT

I am having the same issue. However, when I issue a voice command over my bluetooh headset, Google Voice recognize and processes the command. For example, "Play [artist] on Spotify". But it will not actually start playing the music. I have to wake up the screen / unlock the phone then it works. That defeats the whole point of handsfree.

Re: Voice control on Android

Sairadowney — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:35:38 GMT

This is happening to me too. So maddening!!! I'm nearly ready to quit Spotify. Even when I disable Google voice commands it still hijacks Spotify. Any luck solving the problem??? "If you just said something, I didn't understand" driving me mad.

Re: Voice control on Android

bbrennan — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:45:00 GMT

Bump. It's frustrating for someone who drives as much as I do. Google Play Music does this very well.

When I ask Google to "play la la land soundtrack," The search result correctly matches this to "La La Land (Original Soundtrack)."

When it opens Spotify, however, it has only searched for "la la land." It sometimes won't play at all, or it will just play songs from the list of results.

If Google can match this with Spotify, it should be able to open directly to that matched result rather than opening the search page.

Re: Voice control on Android

asdfas564dfasdf — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:50:07 GMT

same issue here, please spotify fix your darn app

Re: Voice control on Android

asdfas564dfasdf — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:50:31 GMT

same !!

Re: Voice control on Android

__asd__ — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:53:02 GMT

Same here .(

Re: Voice control on Android

kor_renm — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:54:54 GMT

please fix

Re: Voice control on Android

BeerAndPies — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:41:47 GMT

Same here moto G4 plus marshmallow

Re: Voice control on Android

Henry_Gadabru — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:25:24 GMT

More than 6 months after original post, still no answer from a spotify employee... 😕

Re: Voice control on Android

Sairadowney — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:17:20 GMT

Nope. Seems like they don't care too much about my $10/month.

Re: Voice control on Android

bhavin-gb — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:18:26 GMT

Melody Voice Assistant can now do this for you (full disclaimer: I work here). Once you start the app and connnect it to your Spotify account - you can play a song, artist, album, genre, mood, playlist and also control your music simply using your voice.

Re: Voice control on Android

MadmanOnWheels — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 06:31:17 GMT

Here's something, for you, since you ride. Cool idea

https://open.spotify.com/user/madmanonwheels/playlist/3HRTvOSZbmBVk7UAUoNuHK?context=spotify%3Auser%3Amadmanonwheels%3Aplaylist%3A3HRTvOSZbmBVk7UAUoNuHK

Re: Voice control on Android

williew705 — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:32:10 GMT

Thanks for the tip on this app. I will definitely use it. I actually had a screen pop up when I opened Spotify on my phone yesterday that said something like "Now you can control Spotify with your voice. Tap to learn more". When I tapped my screen nothing happened though and I never saw anything else about it. It looked like Spotify was anouncing native voice capabilities, from the screen.

Re: Voice control on Android

mirandaeddye — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 08:40:18 GMT

Woooaahh I have the same problem.I NEED to find a way to fix this because of how maddening it becomes when you can't even listen to music by yourself quietly.

Re: Voice control on Android

Michael1322 — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:30:47 GMT

I'm an app developer, and I've made an app that allows you to use voice commands to control Spotify on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmacstudios.spotifyvoice

Re: Voice control on Android

fLukeozade — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:04:30 GMT

Original poster here back a year later to see whether this is still a problem. Would consider moving back to Spotify if they've now fixed it, any idea?

Luke

Re: Voice control on Android

Sairadowney — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:42:51 GMT

They haven't fixed it. 😞