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With Google Home, you can get your news, listen to your favorite radio station or podcast and listen to music videos. As there’s no buttons or display on the speaker, other than a microphone mute switch and four lights, the setup is completed with the Android or iOS app. The longest part of the setup is waiting for it to connect to WiFi and update the built-in software. One of the surprising features of Google Home is that you can use it to play the radio, music, or your favorite podcast.
Speakers smart of Google has an important function that is going unnoticed by its users. With Google Home and Google Home Mini you can listen to the radio. Streaming music is possible with Spotify and other streaming services. If you started listening to a podcast previously it’ll continue where you left off.
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For apps that aren’t Google Chromecast enabled you can enable Bluetooth on the speaker. You can also ask Google something during a podcast and it’ll pause it until it’s answered. By default the speaker might not play your local station if there’s a national version. If you didn’t get the station you wanted you can ask again while a station is playing. For example, if you asked for “Radio 1” and Google started playing BBC Radio 1 you can ask again without stopping first. Automate your schedule, go live, and track listeners, all-in-one place.
Let Google Home surprise you by choosing a song for you. Then, tap "Add shows" to find and select NPR's news briefings. The news How to listen to the radio on your speaker Google Home and Home Mini was originally published in Xataka Android by Cosmos . We’re an independent website about digital and online radio in the UK. If you ask for an artist in your Google Play music library the speaker will begin streaming it. If you want to know the name of a song you can ask the Google Home device too – but it doesn’t work for every station.
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The best thing is that you can turn on your favorite radio station by voice command. With a few simple utterances, you can access all the latest news, podcasts, and discussions of the day. Factory reset the device Press and hold the factory reset button located above the power cord on the back of Max. Factory reset the device Press and hold the factory reset button located above the power cable on the back of Max. Factory reset the device Press and hold the factory reset button located below the power cord on the bottom of Home Mini.
Turn mic on or off Toggle the mic on or off switch found next to the power cord. Like with podcasts, you can't natively listen to audiobooks through TuneIn on Google Home. What that means is, you can't use your voice to start listening to audiobooks, but you can cast them to Google Home.
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While users await an official fix for the seemingly unfixable problem, there’s a workaround shared by a user that you can try out for yourself too. To get on Google Home, your station needs to be listed on TuneIn or iHeartRadio. Once it's available through either of those places, listeners can tune into your broadcasts. Turn down the volume Press and hold left side of Home Mini. Turn down the volume Swipe counterclockwise on the top of the device.
However, you can get your radio shows on iHeartRadio by repurposing content into podcasts. Uploaded or recorded shows can be packaged up and hosted with Podcast.co, all through your Radio.co account. Stop a ringing alarm or timer Tap the center of the Nest Audio. Stop a ringing alarm or timer Tap the center of the Nest Mini. To play a station, just say, "OK Google, play 106.5" or any station that you like to listen to. If Google Home says the station is not available on one of the services, try asking for the station specifically from the other service.
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You can’t use your voice or the Google Home app to turn the mic on or off. Factory reset the device Turn the mic off, then press and hold the lights in the centre of the Nest Mini. Do you enjoy listening to the radio when you’re at home?
He has reviewed smartphones for Pocketnow and Android Authority and loves building stuff on his YouTube channel, MOD. He has a dangerous obsession with coffee and is afraid of free time. Stop a ringing alarm or timer Tap the centre of the Nest Audio. Stop a ringing alarm or timer Press and hold either side of Home Mini. Stop a ringing alarm or timer Tap the centre of the Nest Mini. Google Home makes listening to music and radio so effortless that it’d be a shame not to use this feature.
Podcasts can be navigated in a similar way to using a podcast app. During a podcast you can ask to skip forward in an episode, or start playing the next episode. Using voice commands you can ask Google Home to play the audio you’d like to hear. We’ve provided some examples below to help you get started. Each command needs to start with “OK Google” or “Hey Google”. Toggle the mic on or off switch found next to the power cord.
Turn down the volume Press and hold the left side of Home Mini. Turn down the volume Swipe anticlockwise on the top of the device.
You can skip through episodes in reverse chronological order by saying, "OK Google, next." But you cannot listen to a specific episode number on command. Additional controls to manage the volume of multiple devices are available on your display.Learn more about multi-room controls. Toggle the mic on or off switch found next to the power cable. Turn mic on or off Toggle the mic on or off switch found next to the power cable. Start your request Press and hold down on the top of the device. Mic on or off Press the microphone mute button on the back of the device.
Despite both supporting podcasts, queueing up podcasts on the Google Home through Spotify or TuneIn is not currently possible. Instead, you have to use the mobile apps to cast the audio to the Google Home speaker. For now, podcasts on Google Home are restricted to Google Play Music. Just say something like, "OK Google, play Serial," and the most recent episode will begin to play.
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Apps like Radioplayer and Pocket Casts are also Chromecast enabled. When asking for international stations you can give the name with the English pronunciation. I've been interested in tech for as long as I can remember.
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