08-28-2024 07:49 AM
Since Google has migrated away from Google Podcasts and moved them to YT Music I have had difficulty accessing my subscribed podcasts using automated routines. I have a voice command routine that increases the device volume to full, plays the weather, plays my daily calendar and then is supposed to play the most recent episode of a subscribed podcast on Google Podcast
This worked flawlessly for 4 years on my Pixel 3a and Pixel 5a device. Then Google migrated away from Google Podcast. I was already a paying subscriber of YT Music and I quickly set up my podcast on that platform and subscribed. I edited my automation routine to specifically play the newest episode of the podcast on YT Music.
Now, when I run the routine, the google assistant runs through the entire routine and either says they can't find the podcast or it begins playing some random music. The issues with podcasts on YT music is a completely different topic that I will address in a separate posts because when one of my subscribed podcasts finish it will randomly play a podcast that I have no interest in and am not subscribed to when there are several episodes of podcasts that I am subscribed to that have episodes that have not been played.
08-28-2024 10:21 AM
I have many problems with YT Music and G Home similar to this. I think G knows about most of them but fails to advise users. I spend so much time resetting and working on problems created by G changes that I am losing the incentive to keep the apps working.
11-07-2024 06:45 PM
Same thing here, I have a routine schedule where every specific time I want to listen to my playlist on Spotify. It worked well previously but several months ago it's not working well. The routine schedule plays a random song from my Spotify. Tried to use YouTube music also happened same things.