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I just want to play a song Google home!

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  • 16-04-2017 2:22pm
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    Access
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    Have had the G home for about a week, and one aspect i am not liking is the non-ability to play music when asked.

    I dont want to pay a google music or spotify premium. I have a lot of music locally on a NAS and between youtube and VEVO i can get any song i can think of via those on my laptop/android box etc.

    But simply asking G home to "play ACDC on youtube" results in her telling me that i need to sign up for the premium account on youtube Red.

    Anyway around this that anyone has found? as its a let down for me.


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    wexfordman2
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    Access wrote: »
    Have had the G home for about a week, and one aspect i am not liking is the non-ability to play music when asked.

    I dont want to pay a google music or spotify premium. I have a lot of music locally on a NAS and between youtube and VEVO i can get any song i can think of via those on my laptop/android box etc.

    But simply asking G home to "play ACDC on youtube" results in her telling me that i need to sign up for the premium account on youtube Red.

    Anyway around this that anyone has found? as its a let down for me.

    Use Spotify or google play music


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    Access
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    wexfordman2 wrote: »
    Use Spotify or google play music

    Point being i dont want to pay for a subscription to either. There has to be other options surely?


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    wexfordman2
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    Access wrote: »
    Point being i dont want to pay for a subscription to either. There has to be other options surely?

    Spotify free?


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    The high horse brigade
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    Upload some music to Google Play Music, it's free to play your own music, you can upload 50,000 songs


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    Access
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Upload some music to Google Play Music, it's free to play your own music, you can upload 50,000 songs

    Spotted this, but it seems you cant play single files... only playlsits according to the IOT G home FAQ


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    bk
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    You only good options are paid options, simple as that, unfortunately.

    You can play radio with Tunein

    And as The high horse brigade mentions, you can upload music to Google Play Music for free. You can then create playlists from this music and play the playlist, however it is still a bit limited.

    The thing is, Spotify Premium is so awesome, it is worth every penny. If you look on the Bargain Alerts forum you will find a thread on how to get Spotify Premium for ridiculously cheap. Get that deal and never bother again with storing your own music and these workarounds.


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    OldBean
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    As far as I know, Spotify Free works on the GHome. It's worth signing up to the paid versions though, especially if you're going to be playing a lot of music.

    Scratch that, you'll need a paid account to work on Google Home.


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    The high horse brigade
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    Google play music do a family deal for €15 a month, that's 5 gmail users, can be anyone. The playlists are just as good as Spotify and they mix your own uploaded songs into them. Thumbs up a few songs and your lists will get better. For a time I used hop between Spotify and Google music for playlist variety but not anymore, I stick with Google now.


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    él statutorio
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    I think you can have GH play from a Plex media server via something called "Phlex".

    I use Plex for Movies but also pay for Google Music so haven't tried it.


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    eamonnq
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Google play music do a family deal for €15 a month, that's 5 gmail users, can be anyone. The playlists are just as good as Spotify and they mix your own uploaded songs into them. Thumbs up a few songs and your lists will get better. For a time I used hop between Spotify and Google music for playlist variety but not anymore, I stick with Google now.

    6 I think, the main account plus 5 'family' members.


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