topic Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped in Speakers and Displays

Nest mini explicit music skipped

ldj1996 — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:37:44 GMT

Hi all,

Does anyone know why my nest is skipping explicit music. I have tried turning off filters/restrictions in digital and wellbeing but it keeps saying "something went wrong" when I try to force playback. I have also made sure YouTube Music is not stopping playback either via restrictions so don't know what it could be. Any ideas? Thanks.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

GothamNY — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 23:04:32 GMT

@ldj1996 not sure I have a solution yet, if at all, but the music you're playing, what is the source, meaning is it a curated station or is it music you own from your library, or are you asking for the device to randomly play a song?

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

ldj1996 — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 04:22:17 GMT

Hi thanks for the reply, I always cast my music from an online medium primarily YouTube Music. The Music is downloaded to my device via the YouTube Music app and found in there. In both circumstances Nest skips all the Explicit media found in the playlist even if I ask it to play a song from there. Upon immediately disconnecting from Nest it will play explicit tracks through my phone instead as normal. I have found a workaround for now I have to cast via mirroring essentially making the app defunct of streaming to Nest. So yes definitely strange indeed. I'll have to see whether it affects other apps too but for now a short term solution is to indirectly use audio mirroring.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Vranjes — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 11:18:56 GMT

Same problem here... Skipping songs and when I ask for a explicit song Nest mini answers "sorry, something went wrong, when you're ready give it another try"... I'm in contact with YouTube Music support. I'll let you know when I have some information

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

ldj1996 — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:50:37 GMT

Hi, have you tried using the audio mirroring function in the Google Home app. Shouldn't have to do this as I believe it's a YouTube problem. I'm pretty sure it's bugged. Some how I think the content restrictions for some reason overides the nest especially if it will let you screen cast it over. But hopefully it will get resolved.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

GothamNY — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:21:44 GMT

I honestly don't know but suspect that it works flawlessly if you use your personal device with headphones too.

Here are my guesses: YTM to avoid explicit lyrics skips those songs so as not to offend so when you mirror the true source is your phone. The second part is this -- when playing music, more often than not, it's from the cloud even though it's on your phone unless the assistant is told to play it from your library -- cloud music playback is generally sterile and defaults always to the clean version for playback it's done that way because it's more efficient for the service and uses less user bandwidth while possibly trying to avoid fallout for foul language on an open speaker. Third, without using voice commands manual selection of explicit version will be played because the user has physically, deliberately expressed that's what they want to hear, and it's not a mistake of voice instruction from some random operator, say your kid, or anyone else who also happens to be in the home. Keep in mind any random person can call for music and the default accountholder's music choices and selections will play.

Let me ask this when you say "cast" explain what you mean by that; people tend to use that interchangeably but it makes a difference. To me, casting means you've clicked the cast button on a handheld, thereby directing music from the source (handheld) to mimic play from that device. Absent that process it's streaming, so I just want to be clear I'm understanding how you play music.

That all said, it's probably not solvable by Nest. YTM is programmed and designed to work with your speaker, much like a smart TV monitor is hostage to the content streamer. How YTM allows us, users, to access the content and the safeguards for lyrics is their secret.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

MitchSteininger — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:57:35 GMT

Hey, I have the same issues. Have you already figuered out, what the problem was? Please let me know. Best, Mitch

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Vranjes — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:51:35 GMT

The support wanted to tell me if they have solved the problem or if they know what we can do. I didn't get any response...

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Lcosmic — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:52:55 GMT

I literally have the opposite problem. I have restricted explicit on all of my nest my home minis and you tube music and it still plays it. The only thing that it doesn't do is show me the name of the explicit song in the home app when it's playing. Google support and you tube music have no solutions. So my 9 yr can listen to any song at all. Charming.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

CB — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:02:46 GMT

I contacted google home about this because I have the same problem- it's so annoying because actually so many songs are explicit, without having hardly anything explicit in them. But they couldn't help me. 🤷

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

GothamNY — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:53:48 GMT

I'm not surprised you got no help talking to Nest Home support. As indicated earlier, music access is service-dependent and what it allows the Google Assistant on the speaker to access. We've linked our accounts to a speaker, that's it -- the speaker isn't the source of the music. Whoever your music service is, is responsible for that interaction and enforcing the no explicit lyrics on your account.

Some may think "but it's all Google" it's still a different division. As I've learned, they don't all sit down the hall from each other but sometimes each group is in a different city miles apart.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

CB — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:38:50 GMT

Well i don't agree it's all to do with the music service provider because the speaker will let me play the song it just won't let me cast the song to the speaker. 🤷 Thanks anyway

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Vranjes — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:11:04 GMT

I see it the same way! 👌🏼

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Gionest — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 08:01:38 GMT

I have the same problem but it doesn't seem to be related just to the Nest device. In fact, if I listen a particular music album using YouTube Music as a source, most songs are skipped by Nest but if I listen the same album using Amazon Music as a source, Nest allows me to listen all the songs.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Chromie — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:10:03 GMT

I have the same, also with Apple Music, so it's a Nest problem...

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

The_Calluminati — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:45:32 GMT

Hi all,

Sorry for the late reply but I got this fixed by completely resetting everything, ie got rid of the home and went round factory resetting all the Google homes (a lot btw!) And now it works perfectly

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

CB — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:46:43 GMT

Thanks for this, i did that too and it fixed it but only temporarily then it came back after a day or two so I hope you have better luck. 🤞

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Mastoid — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 01:32:07 GMT

This continues to be an issue after months when using YouTube music. Makes it pretty unusable to be honest. I just switched to Tidal, and it seems to play explicit tracks. I guess if it keeps working I'll cancel YouTube Music.

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

Gionest — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:36:57 GMT

I solved the problem decoupling Nest from youtube and reconnecting later. You can do this from Google Home in Settings / Services / Music

Re: Nest mini explicit music skipped

sho — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:05:05 GMT

how do u cast via mirroring?