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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by Ansil849 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:32PM (#25278828)
Why would a live version of a song pay less royalties than the studio version? Similarly for the instrumental version. The only one that seems like it would pay less royalties is maybe the cover, if the cover band has a weaker royalty rate with the provider.

I think the far more likely explanation is just that these home assistant products suck.

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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by iforgotpassword on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:41PM (#25278938)
But how do you mess that up? Let an intern code that shit up?

Assuming the voice recognition part worked perfectly:

1) query song database for input 2) play result that is most popular (most plays by manual selection in eg desktop client etc)

The only tricky part is to determine whether the query is an artist or a title but again in most cases this will be solved by checking popularity.

What's a plausible explanation that they mess this up so badly?

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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:58PM (#25279176)
My assumption has always been that Alexa, Assistant etc. just have really naive sorting of results - if I search on Spotify, the song results for 'War Pigs' are returned with the album version second, but I know that's what I meant.
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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by aidenn0 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:46PM (#25280641)
Play the most recently released result? Covers and live versions are often more recently released than the album version.
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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by stubish on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:44PM (#25285476)
Because the studio version is a top 200 of all time album, and the live version from the 50th anniversary "Still Kickin'" Tour with 30% of the original lineup and 20% of the original vocal range?
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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by deelowe on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:10PM (#25279326)
YTM seems to prefer youtube over their music catalog. It's not hard to extrapolate from there. Wouldn't a live cover recorded and uploaded by some random person pay less than the official version from WB?
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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by dylan604 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:30PM (#25279598)
The live version and the studio version are not always the same owners.
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