How to get Assistant to look for music only on my phone

Question

I have about 60 gigs of music on my Samsung Galaxy S8. I normally uses Pi Music Player, and am very happy with it. But that's not so convenient while driving, so I'd like to control my music through Google Assistant.

However, when I ask Google assistant to say, "Play John Prine from my library", it's hit or miss whether it starts playing my John Prine collection or whether it offers up some random John Prine video from YouTube. I can't seem to find any way to tell it reliably that I only want music from my phone.

I was about to buy a new car and enjoy the pleasures of Bluetooth voice commands so I don't have to fiddle with my phone while driving (my existing ten-year-old car does not offer me this option). But it now appears that there's no way to do that; unless I pick up my phone and use the touch screen, the system is going to play whatever it feels like playing rather than the music that's right there on the phone. I've put the car purchase on hold until I figure out whether there's a solution to this. (I've also just spent an entire very frustrating day trying and failing to find settings I can adjust...) Is there in fact a solution?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by installing a different music player, namely Pulsar, which I believe is designed to play only local music. I also did a bunch of other stuff, like disabling YouTube and uninstalling Google Play Music, which might or might not have contributed to the solution. But Pi Music Player is still installed and the voice commands still fail to control it properly.

I (once only) told Google Assistant to "play Steve Goodman on Pulsar", it did what I asked, and ever since, it's been defaulting to Pulsar for all of my music requests, just as I wanted it to. Following the exact same strategy with Pi Music Player does not work.

Answer 2

Edit: 1/3 Music - Bose QC Buds - Google's Assistant - Android Enthusiast Website

Solved the problem:

I'm using Samsung Music Player

I say, "Hey Google, Play Samsung Music "

And it worked

I shall have to split my answer into probably 3 posts because I will have to take more than 2,500 limit to properly deal with the topic.

1: Probably, the problem isn't what car you are driving, but the quality of the installed radio system, earbuds, earphones, headphones, and apps being used.

2: Google Assistant doesn't know what music player you want to use -unless you are inside the correct music player that you want to use, and also the music player will actually play the music and also is compatible with the Google's Assistant that are compatible with the latest voice commands.

3: If you weren't inside the correct music player - Google Assistant will probably have to guess, which place to go to, for example, to play the music requested.

4: I shall tell you how I managed to solve the problem eventually, but you should replace the things that I use with the ones that you use.

5: But I don't know if the things that you are using are good enough (have the latest software) for Google Assistant to take advantage of the voice recognition commands.

6: Make sure that you are using the latest updates with products.

7: Replace my items with the ones that you use.

8: I use the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra phone - You should replace it with your phone each time that I mention my phone, S20 Ultra.

9: I've got the latest Android 11 version that should be good enough to operate Google Assistant voice.

10: I've got plenty of spare storage space on my phone, because as far as possible I save data onto my relatively fast read and write SanDisk Extreme Plus, V30 128GB, MicroSDXC Card inside my S20 Ultra's Phone (Ccleaner app may help to increase storage space).

11: I transferred data from my phone using Myfile that either came with my S20 Ultra's Phone or that I installed from Google's Playstore.

12: I then moved (cut and paste) data using Myfile inside my S20 to the SanDisk Extreme Plus 128GB MicroSDXC Card.

NB! (Note well)!

NB! If necessary used Samsung's (phone's) Technicians to solve any compatible problems with; Samsung Music Player, and Myfile, to allow Google Assistant to be able to automatically find all the relevant music, and play them.

I, shall check that commands work in 2 and 3.

Divide notes in Google's Doc App into half and hope that both halves are within the limit - copy and paste into this forum.

Hopefully, these 3 posts will help people to use voice commands within their products.