This sounds very much like the problem I've been having...
I have several stations, but four primary stations that I use often. I've gone through a few rounds of changing their names so that Google/Gemini can recognize them, originally because no LLM AI was going to resolve "thojazzmic" and then later because Google/Gemini/Pandora seemed to have seemingly arbitrary problems resolving even more straightforward names.
But, especially since the recent migration to Gemini, the state has been more or less consistent:
- One of my station names, Wondrous Variety, is consistently recognized and I can play it on my Google Home speaker whenever I want.
- The other three—Electron Beam, Fluid Cadence, and Sonic Breeze—are consistently and completely inaccessible from and of my Google speakers. Gemini will often respond positively and correctly as though it recognized the station name, and then state that the action cannot be completed at this time.
I don't want to keep experimenting with changing their names, as (1) the current names are all words that should be easily recognizable, (2) Gemini does seem to be resolving the names, and (3) I have no reason to believe that that will fix anything at this point.
Ref. https://x.com/Thogek/status/2101734740030284055
Interestingly, I have a few Amazon Alexa/Echo devices which do not exhibit this problem at all and work consistently just fine with my Pandora station names. But, in general, I much prefer Google/Gemini's overall environment...
