Can Google Home Play Music From My Computer
Do y'all remember March 2018? We initially published this post with all the Google music commands starting with: "Hey Google, play the album with a diving infant and a dollar beak on its cover." Back then, Google replied: "Alright, here's the album Nevermind on Google Play Music." We were impressed, what a Google music command!
Today, early on 2021, Google Play Music no longer exists. And with Google'due south Youtube Music service equally a replacement for Google Play Music, our little vocalism banana simply forgot some music features. Today, he unremarkably responds with a random vocal, when we describe an album comprehend.
Never mind? Well, we practise mind, hence this update, where we've tested new and unlearned music services and features for our Google Assistant.
In this post, we will explore all the Google music commands to relish all the music services supported by our Google Habitation and Nest devices. From basic playback commands and playing our favorite music, to setting sleep timers, music alarms, and creating our own music commands with Google Routines.
Please note, you lot've establish a living post. We published this post initially in March 2018and added four big and many smaller updates since then. A BIG THANK Y'all goes to all of you who take the fourth dimension and share their Google Music experiences, questions, and answers in our thoughts section below! We are continuously updating this post based on your feedback.
Thank you lot (in alphabetical order): ANONYMOUS, all iii Brians, Bryan, Claire, Don, Eddie, Gayle, George, Joe, Julie, K., Ken, LC, Lynn, Mark, nickodemus, Roshan, S, Sean, Shamrock, Travis and zkam!
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- Do you have time? Great, but read on. This mail is quite detailed equally it has evolved over the years. You volition go a good overview of all Google music services and features.
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Tabular array of contents
- Google'southward Music Services
- YouTube Music Free and Premium
- YouTube Music Costless (advertizing-supported)
- YouTube Music Premium
- Apple Music
- Spotify Free and Premium
- Spotify Free (ad-supported)
- Spotify Premium
- Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services
- YouTube Music Free and Premium
- How to fix Google Music Services?
- Google Music Commands Jump Tabular array
- How to control Google's Music Volume?
- How to control Google'south Music Playback?
- How to control Google's Equalizer?
- How to navigate Google's Music Databases?
- How to play Music by Title/Anthology/Artist?
- How to play Music by Genre?
- How to play Music past Mood?
- How to combine Moods and Genres in Google Music Commands?
- How to play New Music?
- How to play Popular Music?
- How to play Similar Music?
- Recommendations from Spotify (Premium) & YouTube Music (Premium)
- How to play your Favorites and how to similar/dislike Songs?
- How to play Songs past Lyrics?
- How to play Songs by describing the Anthology Encompass?
- How to play Music by Location?
- How to control your Music Library and Playlists?
- How to heed to Google's Stations?
- How to become Music Data?
- How to listen to Podcasts?
- How to control Music Playback on another Speaker?
- How to create Google Speaker Groups
- How to "Move" Music to another Speaker or Group?
- How to ready a Slumber Timer and Music Alarm?
- How to create Your Own Google Music Commands with Google Routines?
- How to control your Music in Multiple Languages?
- But I Withal Haven't Found What I'm Looking For!
- What songs can Google sing?
- Decision
Google's Music Services
Google supports many music services nowadays: YouTube Music, Apple tree Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Pandora, Deezer. It mostly depends on your location, which music services you will find in your Google Home app.
YouTube Music Free and Premium
Google Play Music is history, only nosotros left it in our Music Control Jump Table as a reference for what used to work with Google Music Services. Google nowadays provides an ad-supported, free YouTube Music service and if you're not into ads, you can subscribe to Youtube Music Premium.
With thefree, ad-supported YouTube Musicservice, our listening experience depends on which Google device we use.
On Google Dwelling house / Nestspeakers, some genre, mood, and activity-related stations are attainable, others will remind y'all: "It looks like … music is but bachelor for YouTube Music Premium subscribers, but hither is a like station". Requesting songs or albums yous'll hear: "Choosing songs/albums is only available for YouTube Music Premium members, but you might like this station."
Googlebrandish devices, like the Nest Hub, Chromecast, or your Google Home app, currently play those restricted stations, songs, and albums without a notification. But, they will interrupt music playback from time to time with 3rd-party video ads.
YouTube Music Premium
YouTube Music Premium, which offers more than 60 meg songs gives you lot access to your personalized stations. You lot can play whatsoever vocal and also track your favorites (likes) from Youtube. WithYouTube Premium, which includes YouTube Music Premium, you tin additionally play your Youtube videos ads-free. You can play music in the background on your android device and download music and videos for an offline mixtape.
You lot can subscribe to an private plan, a family unit program for upwardly to six family members, or a student plan. Google offers a xxx-mean solar day costless trial of YouTube Music Premium, which you can extend to three months if you provide payment information.
Pro-Tip: the first time yous sign into the YouTube Music app with your Google business relationship and cancel the 30 day trial offer, Google might suggest a 14 days trial without payment information.
Apple Music
Apple Music streams over 70 million songs. You tin can pick betwixt an "Individual programme" or a "Family unit programme" for upwards to 6 people. If yous're a higher student yous can subscribe to the Student program (50% off).
You can heed to Apple tree Music across all your Apple devices and every bit long as you're living in the U.S., U.Chiliad., France, Germany, or Japan, as well on your Google devices.
Apple Music includes many local live radio stations around the earth. You can relish Apple Music on your Apple Sentinel when you're away from your iPhone or in your automobile with CarPlay. Apple offers free Apple Music trials from thirty days to 3 months.
Note: With Google, you won't be able to play your Apple tree Music favorites or music library, heed to Apple tree Music Radio stations, or play like music. You'll miss some features, where Siri could assist.
Spotify Free and Premium
Spotify supportsSpotify Free, an ad-supported streaming tier. For ad-free music, you tin subscribe toSpotify Premium available with Individual, Duo, Family, and Educatee plans. All Spotify services can stream the music directly from the Spotify app on your smartphone to whatsoever Google Cast Device.
Amazingly, yous take access to over 50 meg songs and over 700,000 podcasts, that is, if you tin can live with ads in your listening experience or just similar stations to what you've requested. You can download songs for up to 14 days for offline listening.
For Spotify Free it depends which Google device you lot are using:
On Google Dwelling / Nestspeakerssome genre, mood, and activity-related stations are accessible, others will remind you: "Playing albums is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers, but give this … station a listen." Requesting songs you lot'll hear: "Choosing songs is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers, but attempt this … station." Additionally, you'll encounter a skip limit of six skips within an hour.
Googlebrandish devices, like the Nest Hub or Chromecast, currently play those restricted stations, songs, and albums without notification from Spotify. But, they will interrupt the music playback from time to time with ads. And no, at that place is no skip-limit for Spotify Free on Google display devices.
Spotify Premium
Spotify Premium has the same over 50 Meg songs in its library, but this time without advertizement-interruptions. Yous tin can set the audio quality to very high (up to 320 kbit/s) and download songs in the Spotify app to listen without an internet connexion.
You can choice betwixt "Premium Individual", for one person, "Premium Duo" for 2 people living together for i discounted price, and "Premium Family", for up to 6 people living together. If you're currently enrolled at an accredited higher or university you tin can become 50% off a Premium subscription with the Premium Student plan.
Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio Services
TuneIn and iHeartRadio come up preinstalled as radio-like services, Pandora requires account linking. With radio services, nosotros'll find natural limitations around music playback control and selecting specific music.
How to set Google Music Services?
To link a music service in the Google Home app and set a default music provider:
- Open the Google Home app and tap on the "⚙️" Settings push
- Select "Music" and then the music service you'd like to link
- Tap on "Link Account" and enter your music service business relationship information
- Provide Two-factor authentication, if required.
- Tap on "Allow" to allow Google access your music service, its library, and your listening activity.
- Tap on your favorite service nether "Your music services" to set it every bit the default music service.
You tin can now utilize all the music services you've linked to, merely by adding the service to your asking:
- Ok Google, play music on Spotify
- Hey Google, play music on Apple Music
- Ok Google, play a jazz station on Spotify
For your default music service, e.g. "YouTube Music", y'all can omit the service in your voice command:
- Ok Google, play a jazz station
Google Music Commands Leap Tabular array
This is an overview of all the Google music features across selected Google music services. We've added Google Play Music for historical reference. The colored boxes signal whether a feature is supported for a music service. You cantap on the colored boxes to jump directly to the Google Home music commands you're interested in.
| 🟥 not supported 🟧 kind of supported 🟩 fully supported tap for more | (RIP: Google Play Music) | YouTube Music Premium | YouTube Music Free | Apple Music | Spotify Premium | Spotify Free | Pandora | TuneIn | iHeartRadio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decision-making the Volume | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 |
| Controlling the Playback | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Navigating the Music Database | |||||||||
| Playing by Championship/Anthology/Artist | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing by Genre | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing Music by Mood | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Combining Mood and Genres | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing New Music | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing Popular Music | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Favorites and Like/Dislike | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing past lyrics | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing past Describing the Album Cover | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Playing by Location | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Managing your library and playlists | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Listening to radio stations | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 |
| Getting Music Information | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟥 |
| Manage and Listen to Podcasts | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟧 |
| Controlling Music on another Speaker | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 |
| Setting a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟧 | 🟧 | 🟧 |
Note, if y'all have not ready your preferred service as default music service in the Google Home app, make certain to add together "… from YouTube Music", "… on Spotify", "… on TuneIn", etc. at the end of your Google Home music commands.
How to command Google'south Music Volume?
Following music commands will modify Google's volume in x% increments:
- Ok Google, (change/make/turn the) volume up / down
- Hey Google, (make it) softer/louder
- Ok Google, lower/raise (the) volume
- Ok Google, increase/decrease (the) volume
- Hey Google, plough information technology up/down
If y'all'd like to prepare the volume to a specific level:
- Ok Google, (set the) volume (to level) <ane-10>
- Ok Google, book 3 (Note, that'southward the snappy, short control)
- Hey Google, (set up/plow the book to) 50 percent
Note, you can check the book with the command:
- Ok Google, what'due south the volume?
And for extremes (level ten and level i):
- Ok Google, volume max/minimum
For muting Google Home, we have the following commands:
- Ok Google, mute/unmute
🟩 Decision-making the Book is a Google characteristic and bachelor for all music services.
How to command Google's Music Playback?
We can stop and resume playback by saying:
- Ok Google, play/resume/continue (the music)
- Ok Google, stop/pause (the music)
Annotation, resume, and continue times out (forgets what has been played) after around 20 minutes.
Only we can likewise listen to some music we might like:
- Ok Google, play/shuffle some music
To navigate within an album or playlist, we just need to say:
- Ok Google, next/previous (song/track/tune)
- Hey Google, skip (this song)
To navigate within a vocal, we tin say:
- Ok Google, play (this song) from (the) kickoff
- Ok Google, restart/repeat (this) song
- Ok Google, jump/skip back/forrad (x seconds/infinitesimal(s))
For shuffling and echo we can use:
- Ok Google, (turn) echo/loop on/off
- Hey Google, shuffle
🟧 YouTube Music Premium, Apple Music, Spotify Premium currently don't support the repeat/loop style. Spotify Premium currently doesn't support shuffle. Note, Google will come back with: "Got it, music volition start shuffling" and "All right, this volition keep repeating", but with no effect.
🟧 With YouTube Music Gratuitous and Spotify Free, the repeat mode does non work. Skipping songs is limited to half-dozen skips per hr for Spotify Free on a Google speaker, simply not on a Google display device. Skipping within and restarting a song is non supported on a Google speaker, just works on a Google brandish device.
🟧 YouTube Music Free treats Google speaker groups as "speaker" devices – fifty-fifty if there are but display devices in the group – and therefore shows all the speaker limitations, regardless of which device type you inquire. (Thanks, Bryan!)
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing most of the music control features.
How to control Google's Blaster?
Though there are no Google Abode music commands to command the blaster, information technology's worth to mention, that there is an equalizer settings folio in the Google Home app. Tap on your Google device, then on the Settings icon on the top right. You tin notice the Blaster setting under Sound settings.
In the equalizer settings page, y'all can command bass and treble in the range of +/- 6 dB in 0.5 steps.
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How to play Music past Title/Anthology/Creative person?
If nosotros know, what we desire to hear, we tin say:
- Ok Google, play (the song/track/title) <title>
- Ok Google, play/shuffle (the album/record) <album>
- Ok Google, play/shuffle (songs/music by) <artist>
- Hey Google, play (the song/rails/title) <championship> by <artist>
- Ok Google, play (the anthology/tape) <album> by <creative person>
🟧 The 'gratis' services YouTube Music Free and Spotify Complimentary will mostly play a station with music like to what you've requested. Unless you lot use a display device like Google Nest Hub or asking to "play … on" a Chromecast.
🟧 YouTube Music Free treats Google speaker groups as "speaker" devices – fifty-fifty if in that location are only display devices in the group – and therefore shows all the speaker limitations, regardless of which device type y'all ask. (Thanks, Bryan!)
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing these features. Still, y'all can mostly request or create an "artist radio" station. For TuneIn, you need to specify the radio station proper noun.
How to play Music past Genre?
- Ok Google, play <genre> music
The following genre list comes from YouTube Music: Moods and Genres:
Annotation, while Google Play Music asked for 'genres', we at present demand to allow Google know which 'artists' we similar in the YouTube Music app.
- African
- Arabic
- Blues
- Bollywood & Indian
- Christmas
- Classical
- Country & American
- Dance & Electronic
- Decades
- Folk & Audio-visual
- Howdy-Hop
- Indie & Culling
- Jazz
- G-Popular & Asian
- Kids & Family
- Latin
- Metal
- Pop
- R&B & Soul
- Reggae & Caribean
- Rock
- Schlager
- Soundtracks & Musicals
🟧 With Pandora, it seems to be a hit or miss which genre station is played.
🟥 TuneIn and iHeartRadio merely back up radio station names or callsigns.
YouTube Music has some divers moods, which we tin request to play the music that fits what we are up to. These are mapped to (curated) playlists and stations.
- Ok Google, play (some) <mood> music
- Chill
- Commute
- Free energy Boosters
- Feel Good
- Focus
- Party
- Romance
- Sleep
- Workout
🟧 The "complimentary" services YouTube Gratis and Spotify Gratis will mostly play a station like to what you've requested.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.
How to combine Moods and Genres in Google Music Commands?
Nosotros can combine some moods and genres. If in that location is a matching station, Google will play it:
- Aroused Workout->station Angry Workout on YouTube Music
- Romantic Dinner Party-> station Dinner Music on YouTube Music
- Sad Blues-> station Dejection Sorry on YouTube
- Classical Music for Sleeping-> station Classical Music for Sleeping on YouTube Music
- Relaxed Country Music-> station Soothing Country Music on YouTube Music
🟧 YouTube Free volition more often than not play a station with music similar to what you've requested (vs. curated playlists with paid services).
🟥 Spotify is peculiarly weak in finding combined stations, it will mostly play similar sounding albums.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this feature.
How to play New Music?
To play a station from our "new music" suggestions, we can just say:
- Ok Google, play (brand) new music
If you want to hear some fresh tracks from your favorite artist, you can say:
- Ok Google, play new songs past <artist>
- Ok Google, play new <genre> music
A nice feature, which works with YouTube Music Premium – thanks Joe for sharing it with us – is to request the latest album by artist:
- Ok Google, play <artist>'due south new album.
🟧 Apple Music doesn't support new genre and new artist music. However, you tin can play your "New Music Mix".
🟧 YouTube Music Free and Spotify Free will mostly play a station with music similar to what you lot've requested unless yous use a display device similar Google Nest Hub or asking to "play … on" a Chromecast.
🟧 Spotify Premium hardly finds new music.
🟥 Radio-like services (Pandora, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc.) are naturally missing this characteristic.
How to play Popular Music?
- Hey Google, play the top hits
- Ok Google, play the top <genre> songs
- Hey Google, play the peak songs from the 80s
🟧 YouTube Music Free volition generally play a station with music similar to what you lot've requested unless y'all use a display device like Google Nest Hub or request to "play … on" a Chromecast.
How to play Similar Music?
A very nice characteristic that works with YouTube Music and Spotify Premium. (Cheers a lot, Roshan for sharing!)
- We have already seen that we can play the music of simply one artist:
- Ok Google, play/shuffle (songs/music by) <artist>
- BUT we can also play a mixed station for an creative person, including the creative person'due south and like music from other artists
- Ok Google, play songs like <creative person> Note, Google will answer "playing <artist> radio mix".
Recommendations from Spotify (Premium) & YouTube Music (Premium)
- Ok Google, play recommended music
- Hey Google, recommend some music
- Ok Google, try something else
- Hey Google, play something different
🟩 With YouTube Music on a Google speaker, Google will try to go a amend thought which music you like. He will play some songs and ask you to tell him what you 'like' along the mode. On a Google brandish device, Google will display recommended videos.
🟩 With Spotify Premium on a Google speaker, Google volition play recommended songs from Spotify. On a Google display device, Spotify will display a list of recommended songs.
🟧 Apple Music cannot recommend music.
🟧 Spotify Complimentary will recommend some music only on a Google Nest Hub or if you request it to "play … on a Chromecast."
How to play your Favorites and how to like/dislike Songs?
To listen to your favorites on YouTube Music, just say:
- Ok Google, play (my) thumbs-upwards (playlist)
For Spotify:
- Hey Google, play the songs I like (on Spotify)
To tell Google, what to put into the thumbs-upwardly motorcar-playlist, merely say:
- Ok Google, thumbs upward
- Ok Google, I like/dear this song
If you want to let Google know, that y'all don't like a vocal, you tin can say:
- Ok Google, thumbs down
- Ok Google, I don't like this vocal
🟧 Apple tree Music will display your likes/dislikes only for songs in your library. We couldn't discover a voice command to play the songs we similar.
How to play Songs by Lyrics?
Some of us, rather call up some lyrics (snippets) than the title of our favorite songs:
- Ok Google, play (the song that goes) <lyrics>
🟧 YouTube Music Free and Spotify Free volition mostly play a station with music similar to what you've asked for. Unless you lot use a display device like Google'south Nest Hub or asking to "play … on" a Chromecast.
How to play Songs by describing the Album Comprehend?
Aye, we can draw an album cover, and Google can (sometimes) find the right record:
- Ok Google, play the anthology with <cover-description> (on its cover).
Here are some examples:
- Ok Google, play the album with four men crossing a street
- Hey Google, play the album with a prism and rainbow-colored low-cal rays
- Ok Google, play the album with two stone faces, facing each other
- Hey Google, play the album with a banana
- Ok Google, play the album with neon ice-foam
- Ok Google, play the album with red lips and a ruby natural language
🟧 Spotify Free will play on a Google speaker a station with music similar to what you lot've requested unless you use a Google brandish device like the Google Nest Hub or request to "play … on" a Chromecast.
🟥 YouTube Music Gratis & Premium do not recognize album art.
How to play Music by Location?
Google Nest is always at domicile, why expect into location-based music? Well, locations (from your smartphone) are but one case of the data, that Google can take into business relationship when personalizing music suggestions for you. To enable this feature, you lot'll need to turn on location-based recommendations in the YouTube Music app.
Google has a novel approach to figure out your activities. You don't need to tell Google where you are and what yous are up to. Google tin can have all the information information technology has collected from you to personalize your Google Assistant and music feel:
This includes:
- Web & App Action: Your search activity on apps and in browsers to make searches faster and get customized experiences in Search, Maps, Now, and other Google products. This includesPhonation and Sound activeness, which helps to recognize your vocalism and improve speech recognition by storing your vox and audio inputs to your account (for example, when you say "Ok Google" to exercise a voice search).
- Location History: A private map of where you go with your signed-in devices to provide improved map searches, commute routes, and more.
- YouTube History: Your YouTubesearches to make your hereafter searches faster and amend your recommendations and your YouTube sentry history,to brand it easier to find your recently watched videos on YouTube and better your recommendations.
- Please annotation, earlier we also instituteDevice Informationhere: Your contacts, calendars, apps, and other device data to better your feel across Google. This section is removed now and we couldn't find equivalent settings in Google'south privacy and personalization section.
How to control your Music Library and Playlists?
You can control what goes into your music library past saying:
- Ok Google, add this vocal to my library
And y'all tin can command what you'd similar to hear from your library:
- Hey Google, play <song/album/creative person> from my library
To listen to your own playlists, you can say:
- Ok Google, play my playlist <playlist>
- Ok Google, heed to my <playlist> playlist
- Ok Google, shuffle my <playlist> playlist
🟧 Apple tree Music won't play songs from your library.
🟧 Spotify Free volition merely play some music, non your playlists.
🟧 YouTube Music Free volition play on a Google speaker a station with music similar to what you've requested unless you apply a Google brandish device like the Google Nest Hub or request to "play … on" a Chromecast.
How to listen to Google's Stations?
Listening to radio is as straightforward every bit saying:
- Ok Google, play <radio station> (radio)
🟥 Apple Music Radio stations won't play on Google devices.
🟧 Spotify Free does not support creating radio stations based on artists, songs, playlists, or albums.
🟧 TuneIn does not support genres, but over 120,000 live radio stations.
Note: if you want to listen to a unlike service, add east.g. "… on TuneIn" to your command.
How to get Music Information?
Google has a scrap of information when asked about what's playing:
- Ok Google, who sings this?
- Ok Google, what song/tune/title is this?
- Ok Google, what'south the album?
- Ok Google, what'southward <artist's> latest album?
- Hey Google, what was the top vocal in <twelvemonth>
🟧 YouTube Music Complimentary and Premium rarely provide music information on a Google display device (seems it's missing for videos).
How to listen to Podcasts?
In that location are ii podcast services we can configure in our Google Habitation app: Google Podcasts (a split up app) and Spotify Podcasts. We tin utilize the following additional commands for podcasts:
- Ok Google, play the <podcast> podcast
- Ok Google, play the starting time episode of <podcast>
- Ok Google, play the <number> episode of <podcast>
- Hey Google, play the newest/latest episode of <podcast>
- Ok Google, skip back/forward 10 seconds/minutes
- Ok Google, previous/side by side episode
- Hey Google, what podcast is this?
🟧 Spotify Free does not back up "play the (number) episode of (podcast)."
🟧 YouTube Music does non support "play the (number) episode of (podcast). Yous might need to add "… on Google Podcasts" to avoid streaming from another service.
How to control Music Playback on another Speaker?
To play on another Google Home / Chromecast device, just say:
- Ok Google, play <song/album/artist/genre> on <device>
- Ok Google, stop (playing on <device>)
How to create Google Speaker Groups
To play your music throughout your domicile, on multiple devices, you need to create groups. In the Google Domicile app tap on your Google device, and so on the Settings icon at the top right. Tap on "group" to select a grouping or create a new 1.
- Ok Google, play <song/album/creative person/genre> in <group>
- Ok Google, next (<group>)
- Hey Google, stop (<group>)
- Ok Google, play <song/anthology/artist/genre> "everywhere"
🟩 Controlling playback on another speaker is a Google feature and available for all music services.
🟧 YouTube Music Free treats Google speaker groups as "speaker" devices – even if there are only display devices in the grouping – and therefore shows all the speaker limitations, regardless of which device type you ask. (Thanks, Bryan!)
Note, with YouTube Music Gratis a Google Nest Hub in a speaker group sometimes responds: "for display devices in a speaker group you demand a premium subscription" and interrupts playback.
How to "Move" Music to another Speaker or Group?
We can movement the music from a Google Dwelling house, Nest Hub, or Chromecast on which it is currently playing to some other device, room, or speaker grouping:
- Ok Google, move (the music) to <device name>
- Ok Google, movement (the music) to <grouping>
- Ok Google, move (the music) to <room> Annotation, your Google device needs to be mapped to the room.
🟩 Moving playback to another speaker is a Google characteristic and available for all music services.
Note, in the Google Home app y'all can tap on the cast push to choose where you'd like to movement your music or podcast to.
On the Google Nest Hub, you can also discover the cast button at the bottom left during playback. Tap on it to select some other Google device or group to go along the playback there. Furthermore, y'all tin move whatsoever YouTube clips from the Nest Hub to a Chromecast, by maxim: Hey Google, play it on <chromecast proper name>.
How to fix a Sleep Timer and Music Alarm?
To prepare a slumber timer, y'all have the following phonation commands if the music is already playing:
- Ok Google, gear up a sleep timer for thirty seconds/minutes/hour(s)
- Ok Google, set a sleep timer at 9:xxx
- Ok Google, stop (playing) in <duration>
- Ok Google, stop (playing) at <time>
If you desire to specify the time, when starting the music:
- Ok Google, play music/artist/genre/playlist for <duration> seconds/minutes/hours
- Ok Google, play music/creative person/genre/playlist until <time>
To check how much time is left:
- Ok Google, how much time is left on the sleep timer?
To cancel your sleep timer, say:
- Hey Google, cancel the sleep timer
Note: If yous take not set the music service you'd like to hear as the default music service, or want to hear some different service, add e.m. "… on TuneIn" to your control.
Yous can command your music alarms with the following voice commands:
- Ok Google, wake me up to music at half dozen am (every weekday)
This will permit Google ask you, which music to play. You lot can also specify the music together with the time/weekday:
- Ok Google, wake me up at 8 am to <vocal/album/artist/genre/playlist/radio>
- Ok Google, set an alarm for 6 am, that plays song/album/creative person/playlist/radio, (every weekday)
- Hey Google, abolish/disable the 7 am warning
- Ok Google, cancel/disable (all) alert/south
And if nosotros want to stop a timer or alert, it's enough to say
- Stop
Aye, nosotros don't need to say "Hey/Ok Google" for that.
How to create Your Own Google Music Commands with Google Routines?
We have looked into the predefined music commands, merely what virtually creating our ain? Google Routines are a powerful feature, which supports this and much more than.
If you are completely new to Google Routines, you might enjoy our overview – Google Routines: How to Automate your Life with Google Assistant! Here's Google, explaining and creating his routines:
A Google Routine (yous can find them in your Google Assistant / Banana Settings or the domicile screen of your Google Dwelling house app) can exist activated by
- a required voice control/phrase, which you can define, or
- an optional schedule/time of mean solar day, which tin be reoccurring
Within a routine, we can combine many unlike actions
- either by typing in the usual voice command nosotros would say, or
- by selecting from many popular actions, like
- controlling our smart domicile devices
- planning our day with weather, commute, agenda, reminder, and alarm data
- communicating through broadcasts and text messages
- adjusting smartphone settings similar media book and silent fashion
- letting Google answer with a custom bulletin
- Last, but not least, we can specify what should exist played
- Music (by playlist, creative person, song, or genre from our default music service)
- News (by news sources we can select)
- Radio (by radio stations)
- Podcasts (final played or the latest episode of a specific podcast)
- Audiobooks (resumes the audiobook where we left off)
- Sleep sounds (Rain, Body of water, Beck, River, Thunderstorm, Woods, Country, Fireplace or White Noise)
Here's where y'all can get creative. You could specify your own phonation control for a radio station that is difficult to pronounce or set the right lighting scene with the right music for a romantic dinner. The just limit is your imagination!
How to control your Music in Multiple Languages?
Google Home supports setting a second Google Assistant language. If y'all exercise non see the choice (nether "Google Home / Settings / More Settings / Assistant / Languages" or "Google Assistant / Settings / Assistant / Languages", you could effort setting your smartphone region and language to English US and re-downloading the Google Dwelling house / Google Banana apps from the Us stores.
This has the advantage, that you lot can access all U.s.a. features/services and deportment, and select two from the currently supported languages and varieties: Danish, Dutch, English (Commonwealth of australia, Canada, Great britain, Indonesia, Republic of ireland, India, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the US), French (French republic and Canada), German (Deutschland and Austria), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Argentina, Chile, Republic of colombia, Kingdom of spain, Mexico, Peru, United states of america) and Swedish.
But I Notwithstanding Haven't Plant What I'k Looking For!
Sorry! At that place are then many interesting topics effectually music and though we – anybody who takes the time to contribute to this post – take climbed the highest mountains … nosotros might have missed what'southward important to you lot! Please join us, by taking the time to share your Google music experiences, questions, and answers in our give-and-take section below! You are helping to meliorate this post for everyone!
Alphabet continuously develops and refines Google's music commands. They rely on statistical data based on our Google usage. But once you lot effort a control and it does not piece of work for you, you lot'll rarely try it again …
To support the development of the music commands we are missing, we need to ship feedback to Google! It'due south easy, we tin exercise it directly from the Google Home app:
- Select from the Card
- iOS: the 3 dots top right, then Feedback,
- Android: Side-Menu, select "Help & Feedback"
- Select the Device, eastward.thousand. Google Home
- On Android additionally, tap on "Submit Feedback Report" at the lesser
- Draw the music command that doesn't work for you lot, ideally by additionally providing an example
- Tap the "Ship" symbol at the top right
What songs tin Google sing?
Our Google Assistant has learned to sing some songs recently. We cannot ask for a specific song, merely there are dissimilar categories, and Google will come up with unlike songs and song snippets (where indicated):
- Hey Google, sing the mask song (Note, at that place are two unlike melodies)
- When in public, clothing a mask …
- Ok Google, help me wash my hands
- Now's the fourth dimension to launder your easily …
- Wash, wash, your easily …
- Ok Google, sing a love song
- I love helping you, and I wish I had the tech …
- Oh my darlin', oh my darlin' …
- You are my everything, my night and my moon
- My dear for yous knows no premises …
- Hey Google, sing a valentine's song (Annotation, Google ordinarily mixes some dearest songs in here)
- Across a 1000000 webpages …
- It's Valentine'due south Twenty-four hour period and all I want to do …
- Hey Google, sing a lullaby
- La, la, lullaby …
- Rockabye babe …
- Twinkle, twinkle piffling star …
- Hey Google, sing a birthday song
- Happy Birthday (Note, there are iii unlike versions)
- Hey Google, sing a Halloween vocal
- It's Halloween time, and I'm hither to help …
- Ok Google, sing a song (Notation, this full general asking commonly returns brusque song snippets)
- Yes, I can sing, I similar to help yous …
- I'm singing, I'm singing a song …
- Here information technology is! My big moment …
- I'thou singing you a vocal because songs are corking …
- La la la la la …
- Hey Google, sing the New year's day song
- Sing a vocal for the new year's day …
- Hey Google, sing a Christmas song
- Jingle Bells …
- Hey Google, tin you lot rap?
- Ode to search …
- Hey Google, can you beatbox?
- Beatbox (Note, there are iii beatbox versions)
We covered the "Ode to search" and Google's beatboxing in our Ai-News Episode 2, "The Epic Rap Battle." And if you're into more remixes with Google, Alexa and Siri, check out and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Conclusion
Here we are in 2022 and Google'south YouTube Music surprises united states with some unlearned features compared to Google Play Music: no loop mode across all music services, no music information (for YouTube Music videos), no podcast episode access, no more album comprehend art recognition.
Yet, it is surprising that there are many features available to Spotify and Apple tree Music users: We can like/dislike songs, search by lyrics, and fifty-fifty play a record by describing the album cover.
If you are interested in free music services, similar Spotify Costless and YouTube Music Gratuitous, you might enjoy them more on a Google display device. The v-2nd 3rd-party video ads on a Google brandish device announced less annoying than Spotify'south and YouTube's ads on a Google speaker device, which frequently remind you lot to subscribe to their premium services. (Update: nosotros've recently seen video ads with up to twenty seconds on YouTube Music Free.)
Surprisingly, you'll also find fewer restrictions for the complimentary music services on a Google Nest Hub: no skip limits, directly admission to artists, albums, and songs, playing by lyrics, skipping within songs, restarting songs, and more. Unfortunately, this does not employ to Google speaker groups with YouTube Music Gratis. Here y'all'll need Spotify Free to make employ of your Nest Hub in a group with speaker devices, e.k. Google Mini. (Thanks, Bryan!)
Google Routines are withal a powerful feature to customize vocalisation commands and integrate music and other media into simple or more than complex routines.
There are features just Google can offer, based on the vast amount of information it collects from us, similar our web search, YouTube history, or our location. This puts Google in the position to personalize our music suggestions to the fullest.
We hope y'all've enjoyed this all-encompassing list of Google's music commands. If yes, please consider helping this living post to grow past sharing information technology with friends and family.
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Happy Google, ahem, YouTube Music!
P.Due south. You can find more of our Google posts here: Google Assistant.
P.P.S. And here is Google's official help page: Listen to music on speakers and displays.
Source: https://www.smartenlight.com/google-music-voice-commands/
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