In Car Spotify with Google Assistant Question?

[RichB]

My Volvo XC60 uses Google Assistant to control Spotify so I have to say "Hey Google, play xyz" to request music. The problem is that I can't work out how to ask it to play full albums where the name of the album is also the name of one of the tracks. It always just plays the track and stops. e.g. if I say "Hey Google, play Moondance by Van Morrison" it will only play the track. I've tried saying play the full album called xyz, or play the whole album but it Google doesn't comprehend. Is there an easy way of forcing Spotify to play albums not tracks?

[Funk]

"Hey Google, play the Van Morrison album 'Moondance'"

Edited by Funk on Saturday 3rd September 22:37

[RichB]

Funk said:

"Hey Google, play the Van Morrison album 'Moondance'"

As simple as that? Ok, I'll give it a try! Thanks...

[Funk]

RichB said:

Funk said:

"Hey Google, play the Van Morrison album 'Moondance'"

As simple as that? Ok, I'll give it a try! Thanks...

You can test on your phone - if it works on that, you know it'll work in the car.

[RichB]

Thanks, just tried it and she's 95% good at getting it. She jumped the gun a couple of times when I said "Hey Google, play the Elton John album Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy...." She kept getting bored and cutting to say "Ok, got it, playing Elton John." I wanted to reply, "Shut up and listen," but I knew that would complicate the issue.

[JimbobVFR]

If there's any albums you listen to regularly that are hard to ask for you could create a playlist and ask for that instead as a quick workaround.