Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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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