Android Auto versus Cortana

True story: I bought a new car with Android Auto. On the way home from work, I told it, “Play Put it There by Paul McCartney”. Spotify did not play the song. Instead it, played some (sort of) random Paul McCartney songs with some Kanye West intermingled. (I’m not joking about Kanye). I tried the same thing at home with my Cortana Invoke speaker. It played the correct song.

Both Android Auto and Contana used Spotify but for whatever reason, the Cortana played the right song.

Conversation 5 comments

  • Daekar

    04 May, 2018 - 7:57 pm

    <p>I am generally pleased with Cortana on the occasions I have to call for her. </p><p><br></p><p>I think it's interesting the playing music is the killer app for these voice assistants, because I am invariably frustrated whenever I try to use one instead of just picking the music myself. The success rate of all the assistants tends to be pretty poor with my music collection, for whatever reason.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      05 May, 2018 - 4:44 am

      <blockquote><a href="#271880"><em>In reply to Daekar:</em></a></blockquote><p>That's your problem. Haven't you heard, you aren't supposed to have your own music collection, you should stream it these days using Spotify &amp; company!</p><p>For security reasons, Cortana and Google assistant are disabled on my devices. My employer is a security company and anything that phones home is disabled by policy.</p>

      • dcdevito

        06 May, 2018 - 11:43 am

        <blockquote><a href="#272032"><em>In reply to wright_is:</em></a></blockquote><p>Google Music streams "their" music alongside yours that you upload.</p>

  • wunderbar

    Premium Member
    04 May, 2018 - 10:13 pm

    <p>Have you considered that maybe it was just the microphone in the car that didn't pick it up correctly?</p>

  • Bats

    05 May, 2018 - 12:53 pm

    <p>I just did this using Google Home with the Google Assistant (not Android Auto) and it played perfectly. I don't have a Android Auto on my car built into it. However, I used the Android Auto App on my phone, since they are the same thing, and that worked fine too. The only thing I can think of that happened to you is that there may be some noise interference involving your car.</p>

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