You can change default app for music player by go to Settings - Apps and clicking the app and click 'Set Default'. If you cannot, then disable the default app. Then download new app. Make it default. Or download new app. When you click on songs, pop up will be appeared on screen. You can find your compatible music, audiobook, and podcast apps when you select the app launcher. During setup, you’ll see all of your compatible media apps in Android Auto. Select media you'd like to listen to by selecting the app launcher.
So now that Spotify is in India, Spotify has added a lot more users to its ecosystem. And obviously, a lot of these users use Android-based phones. Google Assistant has been gaining popularity on Android phones because of how simple it has made interactions with different apps and services like Spotify, Uber, Netflix etc.
Google Assistant allows you to set a music app of your choice as the default one. Any request that you make to Google Assistant now, is redirected to the music provider of your choice. But unfortunately, a lot of users have complained about how they aren’t able to set Spotify as the default service provider.
Set Spotify As Default Music Player Android
But fortunately, I tinkered with the settings and managed to get Google Assistant to play my requests on Spotify without having to mention Spotify in the request command or by tapping on the app icon for every request.
Here’s what you need to do to open Spotify by default for all your Assistant requests.
- Open your Google Application and click on the more tab.
- Click on the settings tab to open the settings menu.
- Now tap on Google Assistant from the menu.
- Tapping on Google Assistant will open a comprehensive menu where you can change and customize all your settings and preferences for Google Assistant.
- Since we want to change a default service, click on the Services tab.
- Here you’ll find the Music tab through which we will be able to change the default music provider. Depending on which country you’re from, you’ll be able to see services that are supported in your country. In India, you’ll be able to choose from Gaana, JioSaavn, YouTube Music and Google Play Music.
- Since Spotify isn’t available, click on ‘No default provider’ as your choice. Now if you’ve followed the instructions correctly, any song request that you throw at Google Assistant should be filtered via Spotify.
- In case if this doesn’t work out for you, just take the pain of adding ‘On Spotify’ after every request that you make (Eg. Hey Google, play Better Not by Louis the Child on Spotify).
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Hi, I recently installed a new Kenwood bluetooth stereo into my car, and I love the fact that when I get in the car it automatically picks up from where I left off in my songs. Only problem is, it plays from the Music app instead of Spotify, and being someone who uses Spotify pretty much constantly, this is a huge pain. The only time this doesn't happen is when I turn my car off and turn it back on less than an hour later (like when going into a store or something). All the other times, even though Spotify is paused in the middle of a song from the last time I was driving, the Music app will select a random song from my library and start playing that instead. I am out of ideas on how to fix this, as I've already tried researching the problem and done the few things that were suggested, such as completely closing the Music app (which didn't work).
Thanks in advance for any ideas you have to offer!
Change Default App Android
iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1
Set Default Music App Android
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