Replacing Google Play Music

[boyse7en]

sideways sid said:

Its quite possible that I have misunderstood, but your music remains on your phone to be played without streaming, but to change track you need to use the screen instead of talking to it?

Yes that pretty much the problem.

The phone has got about 25 albums stored on it in MP3 format

I used to play these through Google Play Music using voice control via Google Assistant - "Hey Google, play songs by placebo" for example. Would auto open Play Music and start playing tracks.

Google has more-or-less shut down Play Music and has switched over to Youtube Music. In doing this, they have disabled the ability to play stored music using voice control - YTM will only stream music by voice control.
Google has also switched off the ability to use voice control to request music be played on any other app - "Hey google, play Placebo on Bitplayer" just opens YTM instead and it tries to stream stuff.

[boyse7en]

paulrockliffe said:

Media Monkey is good too.

Actually OP, Media Money works to play local content via voice, certainly from within Android Auto, I've never tried it directly from Assistant. If you have Android Auto open the Voice Search runs from there and can respond to "Play Oasis from Media Monkey".

I *think* with Auto open Hey Google defaults to using that search rather than the usual thing, so this might work for you. Though it will mean the screen is on the whole time and maybe some other drawbacks.

Tried this...doesn't work.

I've set Mediamonkey as my default player in android auto, and if I navigate using screen button it will play tracks.
I press the button to activate the voice assistant (while in Android Auto) and ask "Play Gary Numan from Mediamonkey" just gets "no track found" despite me looking at the screen which shows two whole albums! Even if I ask for the track by name ("play Mercy by Gary Numan from Mediamonkey") it still says no such track found even if it is on the screen showing as the next track to play.

If I just say "play mercy by Gary Numan" it replaces "sure. Playing Girl you know its true by Milli Vanilli in Youtube Music" then tells me I need to have a premium account to do that. Not even close!

[paulrockliffe]

boyse7en said:

paulrockliffe said:

Media Monkey is good too.

Actually OP, Media Money works to play local content via voice, certainly from within Android Auto, I've never tried it directly from Assistant. If you have Android Auto open the Voice Search runs from there and can respond to "Play Oasis from Media Monkey".

I *think* with Auto open Hey Google defaults to using that search rather than the usual thing, so this might work for you. Though it will mean the screen is on the whole time and maybe some other drawbacks.

Tried this...doesn't work.

I've set Mediamonkey as my default player in android auto, and if I navigate using screen button it will play tracks.
I press the button to activate the voice assistant (while in Android Auto) and ask "Play Gary Numan from Mediamonkey" just gets "no track found" despite me looking at the screen which shows two whole albums! Even if I ask for the track by name ("play Mercy by Gary Numan from Mediamonkey") it still says no such track found even if it is on the screen showing as the next track to play.

If I just say "play mercy by Gary Numan" it replaces "sure. Playing Girl you know its true by Milli Vanilli in Youtube Music" then tells me I need to have a premium account to do that. Not even close!

Then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid, all I know i it did work once!