topic Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs in Speakers and Displays

"And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:59:32 GMT

Hey all,

I've been experiencing an issue with playing songs from my Nest Mini and I want to see if anyone has been experiencing the same issue. Whenever I ask Google to skip a currently playing song, it won't skip to the next song but will instead say "And now, time for a break" with nature sounds playing. When I ask Google what song is playing during these nature sounds, it'll just say the name of whatever song is set to play next. I've had to skip these countless times, and it's getting annoying. To my knowledge, this only happens when asking Google to play music directly from my Nest Mini, not when casting media from my device. Does anyone else have this issue? I haven't been able to find anything about it online.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

fefo1993 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:36:23 GMT

i have the same problem on my nest mini, it play "nature sounds" for some seconds after any new song...how can i disable?

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:17:18 GMT

I genuinely have no idea how to turn this off. As I've mentioned in the original post, there's no documentation of this I can find anywhere, even on Google's support site.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 11:42:06 GMT

i have the same f... Issue in italy here, it says that randomly sometimes in italian sometimes in english. I'm pretty sure it's not a google nest problem but a YT music problem. To help addressing the issue, do you use YT music as me as the default player? And do you heard advertising before? Like "we climb the mountain through murky holes" story? It is very annoying especially for the high not regulable voice volume. Unfortunately it is not registered as many other Google issues or hidden functions, you could not even reset settings or something as easy like that..😠. I'm not very happy with google services lately but maybe togheter we can find a solution that is not go for Alexa 😁

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Juni — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:17:12 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for reaching out. I apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing. We'll work together to identify the cause of the problem and find a solution. Could you all try the factory reset? This erases all your personalized settings and restores the factory default settings. It won’t automatically reconnect to WI-Fi, and you’ll need to set it up again. Check out the article below to know more about it.

Factory reset Google Nest or Home speakers or displays

Best,

Juni

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:36:27 GMT

I just did a factory reset and that didn't do anything.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:38:28 GMT

I'm in France. Sometime the message switches between English and French so you're not alone w this. Because of this I just use Spotify to cast my songs or play it from Google directly. Also no, I haven't got any ads through YT Music.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

fefo1993 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:40:28 GMT

I tried to factory reset my device many times but the problem remains. It happen only on Nest Mini (i have 3, and all with the same problem), and not on the Nest Hub

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:58:35 GMT

I tryed already before your suggestion, it does not solve.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:02:01 GMT

do you ever tryed to add the english voice recognition? it is another thing i did before experiencing the problem, but not sure it was the cause.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

OutdoorGeek — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:43:57 GMT

Do you have any further advice as this hasn't worked.

Now time for a break

OutdoorGeek — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:59:47 GMT

"Now time for a break" followed by nature sounds and sometimes the same in Portuguese plays when we're trying to play music. We have tried a factory resit. The problem remains. It is very frustrating. How can I fix this please?

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Juni — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:47:59 GMT

Hey everyone,

Thanks for trying that, and I am sorry that you are still experiencing it. Could you send us a video clip showing it? We also need your device's firmware version. Check out the steps below on how to get it:

Make sure your mobile device or tablet is linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
Open the Google Home app .
Tap your device's tile.
At the top right, tap Settings Device information.
Under "Technical information," find Cast firmware: X.XXX.XXXXX.

Regards,

Juni

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:55:13 GMT

Hi here my firmware. Auto update is on. I can't see any attachment options here so i send you text:

Versione firmware di sistema: 375114

Firmware di Google Cast: 2.57.375114

Lingua: it

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

fefo1993 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:59:42 GMT

My Nest Mini version:

System firmware: 375114

Google Cast firmware: 2.57.375114

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:02:25 GMT

Here are my Nest Mini details:

System firmware version: 375114

Cast firmware: 2.57.375114

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:40:19 GMT

Hi i have also the video, how can i share you?

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

KatiaB — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:44:01 GMT

Use something like a Google Drive link. Not sure if the forum allows those tho.

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:02:06 GMT

Hi following the GDrive link to the video. The video is at 1.5x speed, you can hear between the two songs there is a pause and right after the annoying "time for a break" in italian (sometimes it say it in english ramdomly). After theis the next song starts.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xMC7QBm6NM1VLY-4xiRpCeZpWzs3aOBB/view?usp=drivesdk

Re: "And now, time for a break" plays when skipping songs

Keudu — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:44:11 GMT

Take in account also that the scheme is the following: song>pause>it's time for a break>nature sounds>next song

So please look at the whoke video i maked it x1.5 for that.