topic Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop in Speakers and Displays

Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Egimz — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:07:03 GMT

I just bought 3 Google Nest Mini 2nd gen.

All have same issue: when playing any radio station and commanded to stop, the speaker goes into pause state. In Google Home app you see the "pause" staus and can only stop it by clicking on "stop casting". No voice command works to do the same.

Tried factory reset, and wifi reboot but problem remains.

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

vs271 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:03:18 GMT

I've mentioned this in another thread. The problem still exists

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

CarlosS — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:08:17 GMT

This is the way they have worked since they first came out. Chromecasts stop content but speakers do not, they just pause. I believe display devices like the hub also stop the content.

I've always just assumed that is their intended behavior.

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

vs271 — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:24:57 GMT

It's fine that it does "pause' but then minutes later the music starts up on its own. It does not respond to "stop"

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

CarlosS — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:09:16 GMT

That is odd. I haven't had that happen. My kids play music on their mini speakers almost every morning and then they say stop when going to school and I've never heard the speakers turn themselves back on while working from home.

Are you sure someone isn't accidentally hitting play on the notification on the phone (if using Android)?

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Kadven — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:24:08 GMT

Had a pair of nest speakers for over a year. Telling them to stop, or just tapping them always sends them into a paused state. Then if nothing else is done after about 9 or 10 minutes they will then go into full inactive state automatically. I believe this is by design. They have never started up on their own.

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Eggroll — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:01:24 GMT

Issue happens when you listen to the radio on tunein. I think it’s because they inject commercials now and that causes the speaker to unpause and start playing again. I haven’t found a fix yet. It’s super annoying!

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Kadven — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:07:45 GMT

Hi @Eggroll .

You may possibly be onto something there. Interestingly I occasionally play the radio station of Classic FM. Up until a few months ago on my google audio speakers this was always played via Global Player. Then it changed to playing through Tunein instead that seemed to have additional adverts inserted. To get round this I just created a short routine called Classic FM that gives the command ''Play Classic Fm from global player', so instead of using Tunein it uses 'Global Player' and avoids the additional adverts injected by Tunein.

I assume that Google started defaulting to Tunein for monetary reasons, heaven forbid.

Of course this will only work if the radio station required is supported by 'Global Player'.

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Eggroll — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:37:29 GMT

Hey @Kadven ,

My issue started a few months ago also. Thanks for the tip on global player but unfortunately my station isn’t on that platform. I’ll have to keep digging 😬

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Mlabrador — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:00:43 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for posting in the community. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. Our teams are aware and we're working on a fix. Stay tuned for updates.

Best,

Nikki

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Jinker — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:22:49 GMT

Same going on with my best mini and google mini. Also turns on light randomly. Seems like an update is needed badly.

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

Muddi — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 06:26:18 GMT

Hey folks,

We appreciate all your patience. I'm checking in on this thread since it's been a while since it was last updated. There's no new news to share at this time, but I'll continue monitoring the thread and updating it as I know more.

Cheers,

Muddi

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

bsteinbe — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:57:13 GMT

Hi MLabrador,

Any update?

Thanks!

Re: Speaker pauses when commanded to stop

MarcelLambe — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:02:39 GMT

My was working fine and that behavior started four or five months ago. I will purchase new player and se what happen. I'll kep ypu posted