So, my uncle recently gifted me his old google home mini(he has a regular google home now) so I decided "why not write a blog post about my thoughts from the month or so of using it.)
It should be noted that I only really use this thing for music, my family doesn't have any other "smart" home things, and even if we did, I still wouldn't trust this thing, I have it unplugged when I'm not listening to music. Anyways on to the review. I will say, if you don't have any premium music subscriptions, this thing is pretty much useless to use by voice, since every service(well, the ones I tried, youtube music and spotify) require you to have a premium subscription to select exact songs/albums. Luckily, if you dont have any of those, or you listen to music off local files, you can just use it as a standard bluetooth speaker, which it works decently enough as. Luckily I do have a Spotify premium subscription(before you say it's a waste of money my dad pays for it, so he's the dude you should be telling this). I will say that the google home mini works well with other devices, for example I can go "hey google play archangel by burial", then I can open my spotify on my pc/phone, and without even having to connect or anything, I can just control songs from my pc/phone. This is nice as google sometimes has no idea wtf im talking about, or if I want to play a song that has a long ass title(for example, ANYTHING off of syro by aphex twin). One annoying thing is that even after I specified spotify as the default music provider, I still have to manually go "on spotify" every single goddamned time I want to play a song, or else it'll just give me a bunch of bullshit "ReLaTeD" songs, which are always so fucking inaccurate, like I asked for burial and I got fucking SKRILLEX of all people. All in all, as nothing more than a bluetooth speaker, the google home mini is pretty nice, hell, as I write this review I'm using it to listen to music(for those of you wondering what I'm listening to, I'm listening to Ghost Hardware by Burial).
Should you buy it?
I don't fucking know, do I look like I know anything about bluetooth speakers?
(if your answer was yes, I'm sorry to disappoint but I do not know anything nor do I give a shit about bluetooth speakers)
If you want some music reccomendations, then check out glass beach, I specifically reccomend the first glass beach album, I fucking love this album, one of the few albums I own on vinyl.
If you want more recs, check out my last.fm or my rateyourmusic(shameless plug), or just ask me lol, I'm always open to talking about music.
(that was a complete fucking mess lmao, im sorry for those of you that had to read my insane ramblings)
It should be noted that I only really use this thing for music, my family doesn't have any other "smart" home things, and even if we did, I still wouldn't trust this thing, I have it unplugged when I'm not listening to music. Anyways on to the review. I will say, if you don't have any premium music subscriptions, this thing is pretty much useless to use by voice, since every service(well, the ones I tried, youtube music and spotify) require you to have a premium subscription to select exact songs/albums. Luckily, if you dont have any of those, or you listen to music off local files, you can just use it as a standard bluetooth speaker, which it works decently enough as. Luckily I do have a Spotify premium subscription(before you say it's a waste of money my dad pays for it, so he's the dude you should be telling this). I will say that the google home mini works well with other devices, for example I can go "hey google play archangel by burial", then I can open my spotify on my pc/phone, and without even having to connect or anything, I can just control songs from my pc/phone. This is nice as google sometimes has no idea wtf im talking about, or if I want to play a song that has a long ass title(for example, ANYTHING off of syro by aphex twin). One annoying thing is that even after I specified spotify as the default music provider, I still have to manually go "on spotify" every single goddamned time I want to play a song, or else it'll just give me a bunch of bullshit "ReLaTeD" songs, which are always so fucking inaccurate, like I asked for burial and I got fucking SKRILLEX of all people. All in all, as nothing more than a bluetooth speaker, the google home mini is pretty nice, hell, as I write this review I'm using it to listen to music(for those of you wondering what I'm listening to, I'm listening to Ghost Hardware by Burial).
Should you buy it?
I don't fucking know, do I look like I know anything about bluetooth speakers?
(if your answer was yes, I'm sorry to disappoint but I do not know anything nor do I give a shit about bluetooth speakers)
If you want some music reccomendations, then check out glass beach, I specifically reccomend the first glass beach album, I fucking love this album, one of the few albums I own on vinyl.
If you want more recs, check out my last.fm or my rateyourmusic(shameless plug), or just ask me lol, I'm always open to talking about music.
(that was a complete fucking mess lmao, im sorry for those of you that had to read my insane ramblings)
