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Google assistant plays alternative versions of songs such as remixes

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Google assistant plays alternative versions of songs such as remixes

When I try and play songs on Android using Google Assistant i get non studio versions. For example, if I ask for Diamonds by Rhianna I instead get a incredibly explicit song with Kayne West rapping for about a minute (it's a remix) instead of the expected studio version. The only solution I've found is to "hide" the songs that keep coming up instead of what I want.
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I'll give you an example. I found this thread after searching for the same problem that I encountered. I asked it to play Rocket Queen by guns n' roses - and it instead wanted to play rocket Queen by a tribute band called roses and guns - it did this whether or not I specified guns n' roses as the band I wanted, and it does it consistently 

To me it shouldn't be a mysterious problem: it shouldn't, for example treat rocket Queen by guns, n' roses and rocket Queen by roses and guns as two equal things. First of all, the overall popularity of the guns n' roses song should be a clue as to which one a person might be asking for. Second of all there should be some kind of meta tags or something else built into the back end where it can tell which one is a cover or a tribute and which one is by the actual band that made that song famous

Almost 3 years on and this is worse than ever.

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