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Hi
I don't have a lot of expectation that anyone is going to be able to help with this but I've exhausted my research and thought I'd give it a try here.
While Cortana has had a lot of issues, the one thing that it did do for me during beta was play my music.
Since I installed the final version of Windows 10 that's the one thing that doesn't work?
When I say "Hey Cortana, Play my Music." she says one of a variant of responses such as "Sure thing, playing your music."
There is a pause and then she says, "Something went wrong, try again in a little bit".
I have music in my music folder, (100+ Mp3 files) there is even a Playlist folder, with a Cortana.wpl file in it.
Recently I helped my friend Paul upgrade his computer to Windows 10 from Windows 7.
When we finished one of the first things I did was activate Cortana, put in his name etc, and then I asked "Play my music".
It immediately started playing his music.
I didn't have to create a playlist or tell it what music player to use or anything.
I've tried everything I can think of, on and off, over a period of months, and I've searched for a solution.
I've found nothing.
I've turned Cortana on and off, I've moved music in and out of my music folder.
I've selected Groove Music as my default music player, (it used to work with WinAmp, or Media Player) but nothing seems to be able to reset her, so that she will make the connection to my music files?
I'd be interested in whether this is working for other people.
If you have music in you music folder just ask her to "Play my music and see what happens".
She is supposed to actually play what you ask for, i.e. "Play the Beatles, Black Bird", or play something by Adam Lambert.
Here's the really weird part, if I start the music manually she will take commands like "Pause", if I then say "Play my Music" she will say "Resuming".
If I say Next Track, she will say "Moving to next track" and move to the next track etc.
The reason that I liked this was that I could sit on my couch and if the computer was on I could tell Cortana to play my music from across the room and the music would play, this really impressed guests. LOL
In reality when I'm sitting at my computer I have icon on my task bar that starts my music player with one click so it's more about my frustration with not being able to get it to work then any real need.
If anyone has any ideas I'm willing to give it a try.
Mike
I don't have a lot of expectation that anyone is going to be able to help with this but I've exhausted my research and thought I'd give it a try here.
While Cortana has had a lot of issues, the one thing that it did do for me during beta was play my music.
Since I installed the final version of Windows 10 that's the one thing that doesn't work?
When I say "Hey Cortana, Play my Music." she says one of a variant of responses such as "Sure thing, playing your music."
There is a pause and then she says, "Something went wrong, try again in a little bit".
I have music in my music folder, (100+ Mp3 files) there is even a Playlist folder, with a Cortana.wpl file in it.
Recently I helped my friend Paul upgrade his computer to Windows 10 from Windows 7.
When we finished one of the first things I did was activate Cortana, put in his name etc, and then I asked "Play my music".
It immediately started playing his music.
I didn't have to create a playlist or tell it what music player to use or anything.
I've tried everything I can think of, on and off, over a period of months, and I've searched for a solution.
I've found nothing.
I've turned Cortana on and off, I've moved music in and out of my music folder.
I've selected Groove Music as my default music player, (it used to work with WinAmp, or Media Player) but nothing seems to be able to reset her, so that she will make the connection to my music files?
I'd be interested in whether this is working for other people.
If you have music in you music folder just ask her to "Play my music and see what happens".
She is supposed to actually play what you ask for, i.e. "Play the Beatles, Black Bird", or play something by Adam Lambert.
Here's the really weird part, if I start the music manually she will take commands like "Pause", if I then say "Play my Music" she will say "Resuming".
If I say Next Track, she will say "Moving to next track" and move to the next track etc.
The reason that I liked this was that I could sit on my couch and if the computer was on I could tell Cortana to play my music from across the room and the music would play, this really impressed guests. LOL
In reality when I'm sitting at my computer I have icon on my task bar that starts my music player with one click so it's more about my frustration with not being able to get it to work then any real need.
If anyone has any ideas I'm willing to give it a try.
Mike