{"id":15273093,"date":"2026-08-26T21:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/google-says-it-fixed-the-playlist-bug-driving-home-users-crazy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:33:29","slug":"google-says-it-fixed-the-playlist-bug-driving-home-users-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/google-says-it-fixed-the-playlist-bug-driving-home-users-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says it fixed the playlist bug driving Home users crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3696317 noname aa-img\" title=\"Google Nest Hub vs Home Speaker 6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Google-Nest-Hub-vs-Home-Speaker-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An angled view of the Google Nest Hub and the Home Speaker.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-attachment-id=\"3696317\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-credit\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-and-credit full\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-credit text-right\"><span>Credit: <\/span>Brady Snyder \/ Android Authority<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aa_tldr_text\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;padding: 10px\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google says it has fixed an issue that caused Google Home devices to play the wrong playlists.<\/li>\n<li>Users had reported getting unrelated songs, albums, or playlists instead of what they asked for.<\/li>\n<li>Google hasn\u2019t explained what caused the problem, and we\u2019re awaiting user confirmation that the fix has worked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>However well you\u2019re getting along with your Google smart speaker, the least you\u2019d expect it to do right is play the correct music when you ask for it. Apparently, that hasn\u2019t always been the case lately. After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-nest-hub-youtube-music-fix-3683568\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Music playback bug affecting Nest Hubs<\/a> a couple of months ago, Google now says it has fixed another issue that frustrated Home users requesting playlists.<\/p>\n<p>The company responded today to at least two recent threads on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/googlehome\/comments\/1vi83dk\/comment\/p62s352\/?context=3\">r\/googlehome subreddit<\/a>, where users had complained that Google Home devices were playing the wrong music when asked for a specific playlist. Google\u2019s official Nest Community account said, \u201cWe fixed the issue that was causing the wrong playlists to play,\u201d and asked users to report back if they\u2019re still experiencing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-playlist-problem-fixed-3703662\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tech &#8211; Android Authority<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your smart speaker should stop mangling your playlist 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