Re: My Google Home Max adventures
Re: My Google Home Max adventures Hi.Thanks for your replies. I'm so glad to see apps being made specially to the assistant as well. I look forward to see where it goes. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359748#p359748 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My Google Home Max adventures
Re: My Google Home Max adventures As far as I know Google Assistant supports all their games. There is a limitation to this for the home. For example I can only play the Emoji movie game on my phone with the Google Assistant app. Google Home will not read out the emoji’s and says I need to connect to a screen. This is the same for Hang Man as well. So if you want all of the games you might be better off just downloading the free app. I have seen a few more games come to google so they have a good amount. Strangest Day, Jungle Adventure, Bell’s Talking Castle, HP Trivia, Sorting Hat, HP Jokes, A riddle game, and more. I can't get the Pac Man game to work though. Check here to see what's new.https://assistant.google.com/explore/g/5?hl=enHere's a list of games.https://assistant.google.com/explore/i? … =en URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359740#p359740 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My Google Home Max adventures
Re: My Google Home Max adventures As far as I know Google Assistant supports all their games. There is a limitation to this for the home. For example I can only play the Emoji movie game on my phone with the Google Assistant app. Google Home will not read out the emoji’s and says I need to connect to a screen. This is the same for Hang Man as well. So if you want all of the games you might be better off just downloading the free app. I have seen a few more games come to google so they have a good amount. Strangest Day, Jungle Adventure, Bell’s Talking Castle, HP Trivia, Sorting Hat, HP Jokes, A riddle game, and more. Check here to see what's new.https://assistant.google.com/explore/g/5?hl=en URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359740#p359740 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures You could be right about that, but also consider that Alexa has been around at least a year longer than Google Home, I'm sure that there was a time when there weren't many games on the Alexa platform either.For me though, I don't miss the games as there was only two that I played on Alexa and I wasn't into those two games all that much as I played them only on occasion.If Google Home is focused on streaming, that's fine by me because 90% of what I did with Alexa was streaming services. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359736#p359736 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Hi.Thanks a lot for such interesting and informative topic. I've just read through the whole topic with huge interest, since Google Home is currently being translated into my language, and it's going to be officially released in my country later this year.I have reasonly got a Sonos One speaker, which supports Alexa. Alexa is not officially supported in my country, but I found a workaround, so I got it up and running. The thing I really enjoy regarding to Alexa is how every skills (apps) are fully accessible, because it's all controlled by the voice. That include games as well. I fear that's not the case with Google Home, meaning that only a few games, for example, will support Google Assistance. Any opinions on this? I have no experiences with Google Home at all. I'm currently pretty excited about Alexa, because of all those accessible games. I'm not trying to make a Google Home vs. Alexa. It just seems like Alexa is great for gaming, and Google Home is great for streaming services etc. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359698#p359698 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures @Jeff, yeah, a jailbreak is the only possible way I can see an app like tasker working on IOS. But to integrate Tasker with something like the Google Home, I'm not sure if Apple's hardware will allow that kind of interfacing with non apple products. But we shall see. I'm just glad I'm out of the garden now, though I won't deny it still has its merits. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359500#p359500 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures IOS is gradually beginning to open more and more of the system to developers. I was firmly against this in the beginning, but it does have its uses. I hope they will eventually open enough to allow changes to the UI sounds. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359495#p359495 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Yeah but maybe on a jailbreak? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359475#p359475 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I doubt it will ever come to IOS for one simple reason. It would require customization and a level of access to the OS's root that Apple doesn't want people to have. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359331#p359331 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I really wish Tasker was on IOS although IFTTT has a lot of cool things you can do I'd still like to try out Tasker with Google Home. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359195#p359195 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures @jack thanks I thought so but was not 100% sure.@Orko make sure that the app on your phone has permission to use the mic, and make sure that the mic on the max is not muted. If that doesn't work maybe try clearing the current voice profile. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359193#p359193 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Thanks, Jack!This unit is going back for an exchange, hopefully the new one won't have this Voice Match problem, but if it does, that would pretty much mean it's a software problem that will hopefully be fixed in a future update, but since I can't find anything on the internet about the problem, I suspect that this unit is defective and a new one will resolve the problem.Fingers crossed. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359194#p359194 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures @jack thanks I thought so but was not 100% sure.@Orko make sure that the app on your phone has permission to use the mic, and make sure that the mic on the max is not muted. If that doesn't work maybe try clearing the current voice profile. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359193#p359193 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Google Play Music and Youtube Red are under the same umbrella, so you are paying $10 for one package containing all the services. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359185#p359185 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures OK, as long as they are not going to charge me $10 a month for each one, if they do that, I'll cancel and sign up with Spotify.Now I have another problem that actually started yesterday before the power outage, and that is I can't get it to store any Voice Match profiles, I go through the process of training the Max to my voice, but when it's time to save the profile, the Google Home app just sits there until it times out with a "something went wrong" error message, I have tried a number of times to resolve this, including searching the internet but haven't gotten anywhere.If I don't have an answer to this by Monday, this unit is going back, whether for a brand new replacement or a refund, I don't yet know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359124#p359124 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures As far as I know both Youtube Red and Google Play music are a packaged deal. You pay 1 price for both and I don't think you can just pay for 1. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359105#p359105 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Well, I wonder where that fly in the ointment came from, I did the no power test to see if the settings would stay put, and this time they did. Whew! For a second there I thought I might have to go back to Alexa.One thing I did notice though, before the power outage I had signed up for a 30 day trial of Google Play Music and so far I like it, it may not have all the bells and whistles of Pandora or Spotify, but then I don't really need all that stuff. Anyway, I noticed that both Google Play Music and Youtube Red had subscriptions active, but I never signed up for Youtube Red! Is this a part of Google Play Music? And will I be billed separately for it? If so, can I cancel out of Youtube Red without canceling Google Play Music?Thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359098#p359098 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I had to do a master reset, then set it up all over again, but I got it working, for now. Tomorrow I will unplug it for an hour, then plug it back in. If it loses its settings again, it's going back, whether for replacement or a refund I haven't yet decided. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359040#p359040 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Well, I have hit my first stumbling block that makes me glad I decided to hold on to the Echo until I was sure I was keeping the Google Home Max.We just had a hour long power outage, and when power came back on and I plugged the Max back in, it had lost all of it's setup information. That's crazy! The Echo always remembered its set up information even after being unplugged for a day.So I grabbed my phone and tried to go through the set up again, but when it came time to reconnect to my WiFi, it couldn't connect. The only thing it does is it keeps repeating that it can't connect to WiFi, yada yada yada. I tried my Trek and checked my phone and both had no problem connecting to the WiFi.So, I switched the phone's Bluetooth off and connected to the Max via WiFi, still the exact same behavior.It seems to me the phone can't connect to the Max because after a wait of several minutes it times out and asks if I want to try again. I've tried via both Bluetooth and WiFi numerous times with no luck.A couple of days ago I wanted to retrain Voice Match and ran into the same thing, after saying the training phrases, the Google Home app would attempt to connect to the Max to retrain it, but after several minutes, it would time out with no success.So it seems to me that once initial set up is complete, you can't redo any part of it if needed. Again, that's crazy! If I needed or wanted to re set up the Echo, no problem!So now I have a $400 brick! If I can't find a way to resolve this, it's going back to where it came from for a refund, and I'm going back to the Echo, it at least works. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=359028#p359028 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I like how you can make short cuts or even new commands with Google Home. For example I could set the phrase to party time and have Google home play my favorite music. There are also a few things you can do with IFTTT If This Than That my favorite being find my phone. If I tell Google home to find my phone it will use IFTTT to call my phone. Since it can make phone calls as well I could just tell it to call my phone but I do like this little feature. You can use IFTTT to send texts although you have to enter each number manually for each contact which is a bit tedious. If you are an Android user you can also use , Tasker to do a lot with Google Home , Tasker is not available for IOS and I do not know if it is accessible or not. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358958#p358958 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures My response about the Trek GPS is in the Victor Reader Stream's big brother thread.The devil is in the details. Something else I've noticed, though is probably more of a problem with Amazon music than with the Echo or Alexa. Often when playing a playlist or a station from Amazon music, I'd have to adjust the volume because the tracks being played vary in their volume level. The previous track played was fine at volume 4, but the current track is too loud requiring that I change the volume level to 3, then the next track is too quiet, requiring me to raise the volume level back up to 4, really annoying. That annoyance doesn't seem to occur at all with Google play music. I can simply set the volume where I want it and it's fine all day long.One thing I've considered about the various music services, it's kind of like email, before I discovered the convenience of never having to go through changing email addresses by using an email service that is independent of the internet service provider, every time my internet provider changed, I'd get a new email address, and just like moving, would have to tell everyone my new email address, what a pain. Using a music service tied to Amazon or Google could be the same, if I change assistants, I'll have to re set up the music service all over again, but if I sign up with an independent music service like Pandora or Spotify, then, just like an independent email service, as long as the new assistant supports the music service, I'm good to go. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358807#p358807 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I have a Vizio SB-4551D sound bar and it has Chromecast built into it. The bar is a 5.1 with wireless subwoofer and rear speakers. Thought I'd mention this since this is about Chromecast and GOogle etc. I don't have a Home speaker, so I couldn't test how useful it actually is, but thought I'd throw this out there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358806#p358806 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures My response about the Trek GPS is in the Victor Reader Stream's big brother thread. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358800#p358800 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Orco, that must be hit or miss. I generally don't have much of a problem getting satellite signal. Although I will say that sometimes, particularly when you're indoors obviously, it takes much longer to get signal, usually when outdoors once you get a signal it typically stays fixed. I remember when my original Breeze wouldn't have much of a problem acquiring them, but there would be a fallout every so often. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358773#p358773 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Although we are getting a little off track here, I will say that I am rather disappointed in the Trek in several areas, I'm hoping its just kinks in a new system that need working out, but considering all the success they've had with the Victor Reader Stream, I tend to have doubts.I've noticed that if you leave the Trek on for an extended period of time, such as over night when I forget to turn it off before going to bed, the speech synthesizer quits working and it takes a 30 second power cycle to get the voice working again, this never happened with the Stream. I've also noticed that conditions have to be nearly perfect, which is rare in the real world, for the GPS system to aquire all of the satellite signals. It doesn't take much to completely block the GPS system from getting the signal that they need. What good is a supposedly first map from TomTom when getting the satellite signals is so iffy? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358721#p358721 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Although we are getting a little off track here, I will say that I am rather disappointed in the Trek in several areas, I'm hoping its just kinks in a new system that need working out, but considering all the success they've had with the Victor Reader Stream, I tend to have doubts.I've noticed that if you leave the Trek on for an extended period of time, such as over night when I forget to turn it off before going to bed, the speech synthesizer quits working and it takes a 30 second power cycle to get the voice working again, this never happened with the Stream. I've also noticed that conditions have to be nearly perfect, which is rare in the real world, for the GPS system to aquire all of the satellite signals. It doesn't take much to completely block the GPS system from getting the signal that they need. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358721#p358721 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The Trek runs Android? I wonder what version it is? I don't understand why the Trek won't communicate with some Bluetooth devices. As long as it's using the SBC codec, it should be compatible with pretty much every device that utilizes Bluetooth audio via A2DP. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358697#p358697 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The amplified speaker I use for theTrek is also a Bluetooth speaker as well as a wired one and the Trek won't pair with it either.I take back what I said in my previous message, if the Trek could pair with just one of these, then I could have it at my computer desk and still play my music library through a decent speaker in the living room.If the dedicated speaker had worked, I wouldn't care about pairing it with the Max. For what it's worth, the dedicated speaker is a Tewel Retro Rock speaker, nice looking from the way it feels, and nice sounding. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358691#p358691 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures @Chris: The Trek works with a lot of other bluetooth audio devices that I have, the mini jambox as well as my Aftershokz. Just not the home for whatever reason. Either device is using a different Bluetooth codec. Chromecast support is probably more technically possible in the Trek than it is the Stream2 as the Trek is an android-powered device. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358683#p358683 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The Trek did work with the Max through an audio cable, it just wasn't as loud as I'd have thought, raising the Trek's or Max's volume would have fixed it, but I didn't bother. The whole purpose of doing this was to determine whether the 3.5 mm jack was audio in or out.I'm not going to try pairing one to the other through Bluetooth because I'm not interested in using them that way. I already have a dedicated amplified speaker for the Trek, so I don't need the Max to be a speaker for it too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358665#p358665 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Threk did work with the Max though an audio cable, it just wasn't as loud as I'd have thought, however raising the Trek's or Max's volume would have resolved the problem. I haven't tried pair one to the other through Bluetooth yet because I'm not interested in using them that way. I already have a dedicated amplified speaker for the Trek. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358665#p358665 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures You might want to contact Humanware about the Bluetooth issue. I have no idea what they're using, but it must be some really weird proprietary radio or protocol if it won't communicate with the Google Max or other Bluetooth headphones and speakers. Then again, it might be better if they simply built Chromecast support into the Stream and Trek. This would let the second generation Stream communicate wirelessly via Wi-Fi and skip Bluetooth altogether. I personally want to see this become a reality, so the more people that suggest this to Humanware, the more likely it is to happen. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358662#p358662 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Here it is, confirmation by an actual physical test, no guessing.I connected the headphone jack of my Victor Reader Trek to the Google Home Max's 3.5 mm jack, when I plugged the cord into the jack on the back of the Max, it confirmed the connection with a bleep. Then I turned on the Trek, and lo and behold, I could hear it coming from the Max, though at a very low volume level, which is understandable, because when I have the Max playing music, it is usually at a low, background music, volume level.So, this little test confirms that the 3.5 mm jack is an audio in, not out, jack. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358625#p358625 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I looked at Google Play Music, Spotify, and Pandora, and since I couldn't see any real difference, even in price, since I already had a Google account because I use GMail, I decided to go with Google Play Music. All three services start you off with a free 30 day trial, so I'm not committed. I found irritation with Google Play Music, when I signed up, it asked me to choose my favorite genres and artists, I decided to give that some thought, and figuring that I could always come back to it later, skipped it, only to find out later that there seems to be no way back to those settings.I found it, on a web page with an article about Google Play Music tips & tricks, was a link that allows you to repeat those set up questions about your favorite genres and artists. Her it is:https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/uqg URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358501#p358501 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I looked at Google Play Music, Spotify, and Pandora, and since I couldn't see any real difference, even in price, since I already had a Google account because I use GMail, I decided to go with Google Play Music. All three services start you off with a free 30 day trial, so I'm not committed. I found irritation with Google Play Music, when I signed up, it asked me to choose my favorite genres and artists, I decided to give that some thought, and figuring that I could always come back to it later, skipped it, only to find out later that there seems to be no way back to those settings, that may be reason enough to make me go somewhere else for music. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358501#p358501 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Thanks Jack, I really apreciate that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358388#p358388 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures socheat, check your private messages URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358380#p358380 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Sorry, I'd have answered the question about the layout of the Mini, except I haven't opened mine yet, I'm planning to do that once I have a handle on the Max. One thing at a time. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358327#p358327 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Thanks for the input everybody.OK! Unless I hear different, I have been corrected and the 3.5 mm jack is for audio in.Unfortunately, my music library is on a Victor Reader Trek. The Max isn't the only speaker the Trek won't connect to, I bought a Retro Rock Bluetooth speaker specifically to use with the Trek, but the Trek won't pair with it. Fortunately the speaker does have a 3.5 mm audio in jack, so that's what I'm using now, but I'd like to be able to use Bluetooth so I'm not chained down. I wonder what Humanware is doing that causes the Trek not to connect to Bluetooth devices like most other Bluetooth devices will?I looked online for the offers, and found them, but the free year of Google Play Music wasn't listed, a year of Youtube Red was though, whatever that is.Well, I guess I'm lucky I don't want to hook up another speaker to the Max, that's just ridiculous, I imagine that will turn off most people to the idea as well, so in the end, Google looses out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358310#p358310 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Ok, Google Home Mini layout. Fabric covering that actually isn't too much to worry about cleaning unless you have, say, your home mini in the kitchen. Two touch sensors on the sides for controlling volume, and holding down either one of them ill control music play/stop, hang up calls and what have you. With either home device, you can control music playback remotely with your phone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358320#p358320 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The year of youtube red is exactly what you're looking for. Youtube Red just happens to be a catch-all for one price, i.e you get ad-free youtube and all-access for music all in one subscription. As for the Trek, my guess is that the Bluetooth protocols are incompatible, though they don't really tell you what Bluetooth antenna they're using in that speaker to be honest. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358319#p358319 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Gentleman just buy cheap Google audio cast & plug them in to any speakers. Surround. Hifi or portable speaker with aux And just tell Google to cast to it I have one every room & garden URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358312#p358312 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Thanks for the input everybody.OK! Unless I hear different, I have been corrected and the 3.5 mm jack is for audio in.Unfortunately, my music library is on a Victor Reader Trek. The Max isn't the only speaker the Trek won't connect to, I bought a Retro Rock Bluetooth speaker specifically to use with the Trek, but the Trek won't pair with it. Fortunately the speaker does have a 3.5 mm audio in jack, so that's what I'm using now, but I'd like to be able to use Bluetooth so I'm not chained down. I wonder what Humanware is doing that causes the Trek not to connect to Bluetooth devices like most other Bluetooth devices will?I looked online for the offers, and found them, but the free year of Google Play Music wasn't listed, a year of Youtube Read was though, whatever that is.Well, I guess I'm lucky I don't want to hook up another speaker to the Max, that's just ridiculous, I imagine that will turn off most people to the idea as well, so in the end, Google looses out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358310#p358310 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I know it is most likely not the case, but it's really sounding like GOogle is just as bad as the others when it comes to using their and only their products.I wonder if there's a PC server app that you could ue with Google's speakers to allow for streaming of your library from your PC. I Know the workaround is something like having a web server stored to your phone like mentioned in previous posts. I know Echo has or had something like that where I could stream my library from my PC. Anyways, I hope this google max thing works out for ya. I am certain that with anything else out there, there will always be pros and cons. But as surely as that is, it should still be enjoyable.As for listening to music, I think we all do that to dome degree where we listen to "new" music until it gets to a certain point in our lives. After which we're just like "That's it, I'm not going any further" I found mself doing this with some stuff too and I'm probably nowhere near as old as you are. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358309#p358309 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures so i have just learnedamazon echo dot has an aux port that outputs audio to whatever speaker you'd likebut google home mini does not, and you have to buy a chrome cast audio dungle device.so if you're looking for a way to connect your home max to other speakers, invest in a "chromecast audio". it's $35 URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358305#p358305 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Hi there.Just curious, what is the layout of the google home mini?I know only it is a donut, but I do not know alot of other things about it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358284#p358284 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures If you can afford it, you should buy another google home max in the future to pare it with your existing one to have a nice stereo separation. , this is what google wants you to do. and I'm not sure if you can do anything else besides buying chromecast speakers to pare it with your home max.Now, I don't know about google home mini, but with amazon echo dot you are able to connect it to other speakers that you already own to have a stereo system.And for sonos you have no choice, You have to buy more sonos products down the line to complete your sound system. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358283#p358283 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures @Orko you wouldn't need an SD card if you have songs on your phone you can just play them on Google Home with bluetooth. Works with iPod touch and other devices with bluetooth. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358273#p358273 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I certainly wasn't trying to be argumentative. Just pointing out what I've heard that differs from the information you seem to have... I simply went off Pitermach's post, as well as all the other articles I've read. 3.5 MM jacks on the backs of speakers are usually aux ins, not outs. Mostly, anyway, probably with exceptions that I don't know of... as most stereo pairing of speakers is done wirelessly, and in a very specific way as to be able to recreate the proper stereo image.The Google Assistant is the more conversational of the two, by far. Your commands don't have to be word for word accurate either, unlike Alexa, which is awesome. Much more fun, not to mention easier, to be able to just tel the assistant to do things using an easier and more natural syntax.Jack, like Orco said in post 20, the promoton is onger htere, as that was an introductory thing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358271#p358271 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Why are people being so argumentative these past few days? The unfriendliness is enough to make one decide to quit this community for one that is a whole lot friendlier.Really? I thought that saying "I think" or "I thought" as pitermach did means that you aren't certain.Now that I've had the Max for two days and am using it as a rather expensive radio while I learn more about it's capabilities, pretty much the same way I got started with the Amazon Echo, I've noticed a couple of things, subtly different, but nice, about the Max compared to the Echos.The first is speed, the Max responds to my requests almost instantly while there is always a pause for several seconds for processing before Alexa responds.The second is the response itself, on the Max the response is always bright and cheerful compared to Alexa's rather dry and matter of fact responses. Personally I like the Max's response style better than Alexa's.Apparently the year of free Google Play Music with a purchase of Google Home Max was an introductory promotion that has now expired. No matter, at least I got a free Google Home Mini with the Max. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358257#p358257 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I actually do remember hearing something about the aux jack being line-in. Needless to say, I'd try connecting the trek to it and see if it plays. On a somewhat related note, I will say that my Trek will not connect to my google home mini when it's in Bluetooth mode, so I wouldn't get your hopes up as far as being able to listen to it through the max. Hey Google, activate Bluetooth. That will activate the speaker's pairing mode so you can use the home as a bluetooth speaker. You might not get smart-sound with this approach, but at least you'll be able to play your own music library. By the way, did you check the offers section of the google home app? If there's anything about 12months of all-access, it would definitely be in there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358262#p358262 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Really? I don't know where you learned English, but where I learned, saying "I think" or "I thought" means that you aren't certain. So how do you get that he confirmed what the function of the 3.5 mm jack is?Now that I've had the Max for two days and am using it as a rather expensive radio while I learn more about it's capabilities, pretty much the same way I got started with the Amazon Echo, I've noticed a couple of things, subtly different, but nice, about the Max compared to the Echos.The first is speed, the Max responds to my requests almost instantly while there is always a pause for several seconds for processing before Alexa responds.The second is the response itself, on the Max the response is always bright and cheerful compared to Alexa's rather dry and matter of fact responses. Personally I like the Max's response style better than Alexa's. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358257#p358257 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Now that I've had the Max for two days and am using it as a rather expensive radio while I learn more about it's capabilities, pretty much the same way I got started with the Amazon Echo, I've noticed a couple of things, subtly different, but nice, about the Max compared to the Echos.The first is speed, the Max responds to my requests almost instantly while there is always a pause for several seconds for processing before Alexa responds.The second is the response itself, on the Max the response is always bright and cheerful compared to Alexa's rather dry and matter of fact responses. Personally I like the Max's response style better than Alexa's. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358257#p358257 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures IF you read the post just above yours, pitermach confirms that it's a line in, not out. And if you wanted a second stereo speaker for a stereo pair, it wouldn't be just for being a speaker. The two units would essentially dvide the audio between them, so they'd become complimentary halves of the same thing. So in this case, the idea of buying one extra speaker just for being a speaker isn't entirely right. And again as pitermach said, you probably wouldn't be able to do it with anything but another max anyway. But I could and will probably do the same with two sonos 1's... if the home doesn't come out in Canada soon and if sonos does indeed plan to launch Google Assistant, since there's little to no information about when that is coming. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358256#p358256 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Maybe so, I was just curious, so I looked. The set up I have has no room for a second speaker, so it's not like I was looking for one to buy, and even if I was looking to buy, I'm not buying another Max just to be a speaker, that's just plain crazy.I am guessing about the 3.5 mm jack on the back, but I've never heard of any version of these assistants that could be used as a speaker for another device, so I assume it's an audio out, but I could be wrong.I do notice that besides the 3.5 mm jack, you can also connect speakers via Bluetooth or chromecast.I am new to this thing and Google documentation isn't exactly the greatest.I'll have to look online for information about this free year of Google Play music because there was absolutely no imformation included with the Max. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358211#p358211 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Maybe so, I was just curious, so I looked. The set up I have has no room for a second speaker, so it's not like I was looking for one to buy, and even if I was looking to buy, I'm not buying another Max just to be a speaker, that's just plain crazy.I am guessing about the 3.5 mm jack on the back, but I've never heard of any version of these assistants that could be used as a speaker for another device, so I assume it's an audio out, but I could be wrong.I do notice that besides the 3.5 mm jack, you can also connect speakers via Bluetooth or chromecast.I am new to this thing and Google documentation isn't exactly the greatest. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358211#p358211 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I am guessing about the 3.5 mm jack on the back, but I've never heard of any version of these assistants that could be used as a speaker for another device, so I assume it's an audio out, but I could be wrong.I do notice that besides the 3.5 mm jack, you can also connect speakers via Bluetooth or chromecast.I am new to this thing and Google documentation isn't exactly the greatest. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358211#p358211 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Google play does actually allow you to upload up to I think 5 songs to your account if you have a play music subscription, which you got 12 months for free with the home max. I'm not sure how you do this but if you look on-line it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. In any case if there are missing tracks which you bought elsewhere, you should be able to fill the gaps in Google's catalog easily enough.Needing 2 identical speakers for stereo pairing isn't really too unusual, it makes sense from a physics point of view. If you'd have a large and a smaller speaker playing the left and right channels of a song that makes a lot of use from stereo separation, it would sound completely wrong with one side overpowering the other. Every company that lets you make a stereo pair from 2 wireless speakers (Google, Amazon, Sonos, JBL, Bose) all only let you do it with 2 identical speakers. That being said, as far as I know every Google home is stereo. Because the left and right speakers are in one unit you probably have to be sitting in front of it at a very particular point to even notice it, and the stereo image won't be as wide as having 2 separate units. But you should still notice a bit of stereo separation. Try playing something like Money by Pink Floid which makes for a good test.The audio jack on the Home max is Line-in. It's the only Google home that has one. It allows you to connect older analog sources to it, like your computer or TV for example. All the other stuff like Stereo Pairing is probably all done wirelessly URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358210#p358210 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures So, my mother got the dot, but if you are saying the mini is that good, I will convince her to buy one too to have 2 assistants in the house, cause I can not get the google assistant on the phone to work. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358201#p358201 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Another money ploy, so if you want separate stereo channels you have to get two maxes apparently. I thought that 3.5 mm jack was an aux input, not a speaker output. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358189#p358189 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I know what you mean about phasing out music libraries. Amazon allows you to upload up to 250 tracks from your music library for the Echo to stream as part of your Prime membership, and for $25 a year you could expand that to 250,000, or some huge number, of tracks, but as of April 30th, they are discontinuing both the free and paid music storage services.Man! Google is missing out on a bet here! If you want full stereo sound from your Home Max, you can pair it with a second speaker to have separate left and right channels. With that in mind you'd think they'd be selling a matching companion speaker for the Max, but so far I've found nothing. If I am going to set up separate left and right channel speakers, I'd want them to be matching for some symmetry. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358187#p358187 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I know what you mean about phasing out music libraries. Amazon allows you to upload up to 250 tracks from your music library for the Echo to stream as part of your Prime membership, and for $25 a year you could expand that to 250,000, or some huge number, of tracks, but as of April 30th, they are discontinuing both the free and paid music storage services. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358187#p358187 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures They wouldn't let you do that, the same reason they don't allow yu to stream your own music library to them directly. Google wants you to buy into one of its services, and even with spotify they wouldn't let you link it unless they get something back from it. They're trying to phase out people using their old music libraries and just use streaming, so unfortunately things like you mentioned probably won't happen for a while, if at all. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358172#p358172 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Oh! I almost forgot! In the box with the Max is a round magnetic rubber pad, this is the Max's foot, you stick this on either the Max's bottom, or right side if you want the Max more vertical than horizontal, then set the Max on it. Being made of rubber has two benefits as I see it, one, the Max won't slide around, and two, the rubber will dampen vibrations preventing them from being transmitted to what ever the Max is sitting on.The music I listen to most is classical, and sometimes I'll listen to easy listening, which is basically popular music that is not aggressive or wild.When I do specifically sit down to just listen to music, what I listen to most are the top 100 hits from the 70s, my growing up years, and the 80s, young adult years. After the 80s, music started changing in a way that I didn't like, so I sort of lost interest and just enjoyed the music I grew up with by listening to oldies stations, though there were some artists, like Elton John, that still produced music I liked, that turned me on to easy listening stations.For music accounts, I'll have to compare them, their features, how much music is available, and cost. Acording to Google, a Google Music account has something like 440,000,000 individual available tracks, that's a lot of music!One thing I'd really like to see is either the ability to plug in something like a micro HD memory card with your music library on it, or an online service where you could upload your library, then connect your assistant to it, then it could use that or the memory card as one of your music accounts. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358154#p358154 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The music I listen to most is classical, and sometimes I'll listen to easy listening, which is basically popular music that is not aggressive or wild.When I do specifically sit down to just listen to music, what I listen to most are the top 100 hits from the 70s, my growing up years, and the 80s, young adult years. After the 80s, music started changing in a way that I didn't like, so I sort of lost interest and just enjoyed the music I grew up with, though there were some artists, like Elton John, that still produced music I liked.Oh! I almost forgot! In the box with the Max is a round magnetic rubber pad, this is the Max's foot, you stick this on either the Max's bottom, or right side if you want the Max more vertical than horizontal, then set the Max on it. Being made of rubber has two benefits as I see it, one, the Max won't slide around, and two, the rubber will dampen vibrations preventing them from being transmitted to what ever the Max is sitting on. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358154#p358154 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures The music I listen to most is classical, and sometimes I'll listen to easy listening, which is basically popular music that is not aggressive or wild. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358154#p358154 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures just get spotify. forget bout google music and pandoraThere is absolutely no reason to choose pandora over spotify, as spotify's library of songs is 20-30 times bigger than pandora.and as for google music, I really don't know about its features, but if there's a certain feature that interests you that spotify doesn't have, then consider it. otherwise, spotify has the best music library, A good music matching algorithm, and you'll have a lot of fun with the community playlists, and the weekly playlist that spotify generates for you based on the music you played for yourself.Another fact to consider is the genre of music you listen to.If you listen to rock / or metal, Spotify is your only best bet, As all the rock/metal production companies start with spotify when releasing their new song. I say this from my own experience, as i'm a progressive metal fan and all the new songs will be on spotify the minute they get released.update: apparently at the end of 2017 pandora tried to catch up to spotify and signed a huge amount of labels, therefore my saying that spotify has 20 times songs as pandora is false.See this link for more info: https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/spotify-vs-pandora/ URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358151#p358151 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures just get spotify. forget bout google music and pandoraThere is absolutely no reason to choose pandora over spotify, as spotify's library of songs is 20-30 times bigger than pandora.and as for google music, I really don't know about its features, but if there's a certain feature that interests you that spotify doesn't have, then consider it. otherwise, spotify has the best music library, A good music matching algorithm, and you'll have a lot of fun with the community playlists, and the weekly playlist that spotify generates for you based on the music you played for yourself.Another fact to consider is the genre of music you listen to.If you listen to rock / or metal, Spotify is your only best bet, As all the rock/metal production companies start with spotify when releasing their new song. I say this from my own experience, as i'm a progressive metal fan and all the new songs will be on spotify the minute they get released. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358151#p358151 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Contact google and ask them about your 12month youtube promotion. It's possible they could've missed it or had some policy for buying it from a reseller other than google, but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358150#p358150 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures First of all after reviewing my opening message, I found an error and fixed it, it was, that connecting to your online Google account is the step that most of Google Home's features depend on, not Voice Match as I had indicated.I also found the purpose for the USB and 3.5 mm audio connectors and added them. As someone else has noted, the USB connector is so you can connect a USB to Ethernet adaptor, and the audio jack is so you can add a second speaker to get full stereo sound.Unfortunately, those free accounts were apparently promotions that are now over as there was no information about them included, nor did the Max automatically connect to them as it did the free Google Music account. Oh well, at least I got a free Google Home Mini.sirpdex, LOL! my Max heard your message with the Hey Google in it and sang some humorous version of happy birthday.I've heard a lot about Spotify and Pandora. I don't know much about either one, but I may have to learn because if I decide to pay for a music account, I'll want to compare them to Google Music, before I buy in Google Music, it might turn out that one of the other two is a better fit for me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358149#p358149 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My Google Home Max adventures
Re: My Google Home Max adventures First of all after reviewing my opening message, I found an error and fixed it, it was, that connecting to your online Google account is the step that most of Google Home's features depend on, not Voice Match as I had indicated.I also found the purpose for the USB and 3.5 mm audio connectors and added them. As someone else has noted, the USB connector is so you can connect a USB to Ethernet adaptor, and the audio jack is so you can add a second speaker to get full stereo sound.Unfortunately, those free accounts were apparently promotions that are now over as there was no information about them included, nor did the Max automatically connect to them as it did the free Google Music account. Oh well, at least I got a free Google Home Mini.sirpdex, LOL! my Max heard your message with the Hey Google in it and sang some a humorous version of happy birthday.I've heard a lot about Spotify and Pandora. I don't know much about either one, but I may have to learn because if I decide on to pay for a music account, I'll want to compare them to Google Music, before I buy in Google Music, it might turn out that one of the other two is a better fit for me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358149#p358149 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Hey Google. Good morning Is the first thing that I say to it every morning And it greets me & tells me the weather & the morning news & sports news URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358135#p358135 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Nice deal on the Google Home bundle! Regarding the usb-c jack, that can actually be used for a usb-c to ethernet converter. To be honest, you should really only need to wire the home up to ethernet if your wireless latency is really that bad, or it starts buffering. That being said, the restrictions with a free account are that you can't play any album on command unless it's one you own, but you can play radio playlists that are, generally speaking, free of ads. You should get a 12month all access pass with the purchase of your max though, which includes all-access for google play music, as well as ad-free youtube. And with your unlimited music subscription, typically as long as it's in google play's library, you can stream it on unlimited. The service I believe is still at 10bucks a month. I think you missed the opportunity to get a free audiobook, but they might still have the 50% off your first audiobook deal. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358123#p358123 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Wish I have money to buy this sort of stuff. Sounds really cool. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358122#p358122 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures For the Google Play account you also get Youtube Red as well. I think its like $12 a month that I'm paying for it. Google Home also works with Spotify and Pandora. I'm loving my Google Home too! You can ask it to play podcasts news from all sorts of sources. BBC, Sky News, ABC, Fox etc. It works with Pizza Hut now and so much more! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358112#p358112 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures Congrats on the max. I'm eagerly waiting for it to come out in Canada... and the free account and paid accounts have the same amount of music. You will simply get ads, lower audio quality, and probably some other thngs if you stick with a free account. You can also link to spotify, which I've done on the home mini I have, so I can simply play off spotify premium as I don't use google play music. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358107#p358107 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures I've had my Google Home now for about 6 months or so, and I'm pretty happy with it. Not that Amazon isn't doing great work when it comes to smart speakers, but Google and its line of smart speakers is underrated in my opinion. I really haven't had any problems with the device, and it's always fun just to explore what services are constantly added to it. Exploring the development platform for the Google Assistant has been fascinating, and it's pretty cool how easy it is to create a service that can be accessed by anyone with a device supporting the Assistant. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358104#p358104 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: My Google Home Max adventures nice post and congratz on your new speaker.btw I read in some review, that i can't find out right now, is that google home max comes with one year of free youtube music? or youtube red, I don't know what the exact name is. Is it also the case with your max purchase? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358103#p358103 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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My Google Home Max adventures As noted in another thread, I have pretty much given up on Alexa and the Amazon Echo. The Echo hardware was fine, it looked good, had good sound, and worked well, but the Alexa service had many problems that weren't being fixed, and had terrible voice recognition or interpretation. So,, since I had heard a lot of good reviews of it, I decided to switch to the Google Home assistant, only I decided to go whole hog and get the Google Home Max. The offer of a free Google Home Mini helped me make that decision, it can go in the bedroom.Anyway, it arrived today in a rather big box, Best Buy did a good job packing it so that it would arrive undamaged. The box for the Max was big compared to the box the Echo came in, but then the Max is kind of big itself, and heavy.The Max basically looks like a speaker, it's not round like the Echos or the Google Home, it's basically a box 13.5 inches wide, 7.5 inches tall, 6.5 inches deep, and weighs about 13 pounds. For power it has just a simple power cord, not an adaptor like the Echo used.For controls, I called Aira and they helped me explore all the controls and connections. First off, there are no controls in front or on the sides. The only control on top is a silver bar. The center of the bar is a play/stop button. There is actually no physical button, the bar is touch sensitive, and the center area is the paly/stop. To lower the volume, you just slide your finger on the bar from right to left, to raise the volume, slide your finger left to right. On the back, there are only two controls, a tiny little reset button that is so stiff, you have to push it with a finger nail, and a switch, not a button, to turn off the microphone. The nice thing about the switch versus a button is, that by its position you know whether the microphone is off or on. For connections, it has three, one if for the power cord, another is a USB-C connector, and the third is a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack. I don't know yet what the USB connector is for, or whether the hack is for audio in or out.Set up itself was pretty easy. Just put it on top of the bookshelf in the living room and plug it in. In about a minute, just like the Echo, it announced itself. Next I downloaded the Google Home app to my iPhone and proceeded with initial set up, which was very similar to the Echo's initial set up except that the Google Home app was fully accessible with Voice Over with none of the accessibility problems the Amazon Alexa app had, so going through all the steps was a sinch. For this initial run through I just did the basic set up of connecting it to my WiFi and entering my address so it would have its location for things like weather. I also went ahead and went through the Voice Match set up. Voice Match allows Google Home to create a profile of each person in your house, which it identifies using their voice, this allows it to learn about them so it can be more useful to them. I'm not yet sure how I feel about this obvious data gathering, but you are warned that most of Google Home's features depend on the feature if you try to skip it. Whether skipping it would affect the assistants usefulness, I don't know, but since I've come to like the idea of voice activated assistants, I decided not to risk loosing features by skipping the Voice Match set up.At this point I decided to do any additional set up over time as needed and start using it. Even though I've done very little with it, I already like it better than the Echo. To get the Echo to stream a radio station, you have to tell it to play something from Tune In, like this, "Alexa, play WSMR from Tune In", But with Google Home all you do is say, "Hey Google, play WSMR", and off you go.When you asked the Echo to play a radio station, it searched Tune In's entire worldwide database, so if it misunderstood you, which happens often enough, heaven only knows where the radio station you'll get is from. But with Google Home, if you don't give a location, it restricts it's search to your local radio stations, so I could have said, "Hey Google, play 89.1", I would have gotten WSMR, because it does a worldwide search, you simply can't play radio stations by frequency with an Echo. If I wanted to listen to a radio station somewhere else, "Hey Google, play 105.9 in Chicago" and it would play the FM simulcast of WBBM 780 news radio out of Chicago. All without ever telling it to play from Tune In.I haven't explored it yet to see what's available, but Google Home automatically links to a free Google Music account, so I could stream music from that. I'll have to see if I can find out how many songs are included in the free account versus a paid account and how many songs are in the paid account, and what a paid account costs. I frequently liked to tell the Echo to play music from one artist or another and I'm hoping the Google and the free Google Music account can do the same, if not, I may consid
