{"id":22859,"date":"2023-05-07T04:59:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d251a74d-8952-484b-a5dd-3dffbf2b565912"},"modified":"2023-05-07T04:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:59:52","slug":"pixies-apologize-for-sabotaging-your-google-assistant-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/pixies-apologize-for-sabotaging-your-google-assistant-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixies apologize for sabotaging your Google Assistant alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the last few years, you\u2019ve been able to say \u201cStop\u201d to tell Google Assistant to end an alarm early without the need to preface your command with \u201cHey Google.\u201d It\u2019s a handy feature Google first debuted on Assistant-enabled smart displays and speakers<\/ins><\/span> before later rolling it out to Pixel smartphones. And for the most part, it works like a charm, though one person recently discovered a fun quirk of the feature that involves the Pixies classic \u201cWhere Is My Mind?\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Reddit post<\/span> spotted by Android Police<\/ins><\/em><\/span>, <\/em>Pixel user \u201casevarte\u201d recounts how their morning alarm would go off and sometimes turn off moments later for seemingly no reason. \u201cMaybe once every other week or so, I would wake up 30 minutes later on my backup alarm, with no indication as to why the first shut itself off,\u201d they told the Google Pixel subreddit.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, asevarte decided to wake up early to get to the bottom of the issue. Thankfully, it didn\u2019t take long to find the culprit. Their alarm was set to play a Spotify playlist that features \u201cWhere Is My Mind?\u201d If you\u2019re a Pixies fan, you know exactly where this is going. The Surfer Rosa<\/em> cut opens with bassist and vocalist Kim Deal singing \u201cOoh\u201d before frontman Black Francis says, \u201cStop,\u201d and the song, following a brief pause, then continues. The section caused Google Assistant to prematurely end asevarte\u2019s alarm. They had the playlist set to shuffle, which is what made identifying the bug tricky.<\/p>\n

Android Police<\/ins><\/em><\/span> <\/em>recorded a video of the oversight in action, and sure enough, playing \u201cWhere Is My Mind?\u201d ends an alarm early. Interestingly, other songs that feature a prominent \u201cstop,\u201d such as \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d by Queen, don\u2019t appear to trigger Assistant\u2019s Quick Phrases feature in the same way that \u201cWhere Is My Mind?\u201d does. Android Police <\/em>speculates the reason for that could be that in those other songs \u201cstop\u201d is backed by instrumentals. That lines up with complaints Assistant users have had over the years that the feature doesn\u2019t work when they try to use it while their smart display, speaker or Pixel device is playing music.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re curious about what the Pixies think of all this. The band\u2019s official Twitter account caught the original Android Police <\/em>story. \u201cSorry about that!\u201d the account tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last few years, you\u2019ve been able to say \u201cStop\u201d to tell Google Assistant to end an alarm early without the need to preface your command with \u201cHey Google.\u201d It\u2019s a handy feature Google first debuted on Assistant-enabled smart displays and speakers before later rolling it out to Pixel smartphones. And for the most …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}