All I am trying to do is to use Bluetooth in the car to play music stored locally on my phone. I do not want to such a streaming service, such as Google Play Music or Spotify. For now, I want to play the music using an auxiliary cable from the v30 to my car. It works if I play the music manually.
But, if I press a button on my Bluetooth headset or speaker and ask it to play a song, an artist, or an album, Google Assistant insists that I set a default music service. It will not use a music app to play local music.
I would like it to use a third-party app called CloudPlayer, by doubleTwist, to play local music. For a while, pressing the Bluetooth button would at least trigger a dialog box allowing me to select the stock Music player or CloudPlayer. Now, however, that doesn't happen.
Oddly, if I instead tap the Google button from the home screen and then tap the microphone and tell it to play an artist, an album, or a song, it usually does play the song from CloudPlayer locally. I assume I am using Google Now instead of Google Assistant and that Google Now does these things better than Google Assistant.
I have tried to make a press of the Bluetooth button trigger Google Now instead of Google Assistant, but I can't make it work. Several apps that promise to do that simply don't work. (They are all old.)
Is there some way (a) to make Google Assistant use CloudPlayer (or any app) to play local music or (b) to bypass Google Assistant and use what I assume is Google Now to use CloudPlayer (or any app) to play local music? I would like to do it by just pressing a Bluetooth button, as I don't want to take my eyes off the road. I have enabled only Bluetooth calling (not media audio), as otherwise it would play the music through the Bluetooth device. I want to play it from the phono port of my phone.
Thanks for any help.
But, if I press a button on my Bluetooth headset or speaker and ask it to play a song, an artist, or an album, Google Assistant insists that I set a default music service. It will not use a music app to play local music.
I would like it to use a third-party app called CloudPlayer, by doubleTwist, to play local music. For a while, pressing the Bluetooth button would at least trigger a dialog box allowing me to select the stock Music player or CloudPlayer. Now, however, that doesn't happen.
Oddly, if I instead tap the Google button from the home screen and then tap the microphone and tell it to play an artist, an album, or a song, it usually does play the song from CloudPlayer locally. I assume I am using Google Now instead of Google Assistant and that Google Now does these things better than Google Assistant.
I have tried to make a press of the Bluetooth button trigger Google Now instead of Google Assistant, but I can't make it work. Several apps that promise to do that simply don't work. (They are all old.)
Is there some way (a) to make Google Assistant use CloudPlayer (or any app) to play local music or (b) to bypass Google Assistant and use what I assume is Google Now to use CloudPlayer (or any app) to play local music? I would like to do it by just pressing a Bluetooth button, as I don't want to take my eyes off the road. I have enabled only Bluetooth calling (not media audio), as otherwise it would play the music through the Bluetooth device. I want to play it from the phono port of my phone.
Thanks for any help.
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