Cortana can't control music.

I'm asking this here because I couldn't ask this question on it's own, for some reason:

I have a similar problem with Cortana and music. When I looked it up, most pages recommended enabling a music provider in Cortana's Notebook tab. When I tried to do that, Cortana didn't actually have a Notebook tab. I even clicked on a direct link to Cortana's Notebook tab, from a forum where a similar problem was experienced, and the page it brought me to was completely blank. They also suggested to enable "Cortana can give you ideas, suggestions, reminders, and alerts", but that option didn't appear either.

Please help.

Guys i think the best option is to send feedback to Microsoft via Feedback hub and get many votes about all Cortana features we want.

That's weird! I'm on the 19041.572 build and I have voice activation...

In response to the "Cortana is now an Enterprise Tool" argument, it can't check my enterprise Outlook emails or calendar, do anything with my enterprise Microsoft Teams account, or even open Office365 programs. ("Open/Start/Run/Launch Word/Microsoft Word")

These are the features listed on the "What is Cortana" Page

Here are some things Cortana can do for you:

• Manage your calendar and keep your schedule up to date
• Join a meeting in Microsoft Teams or find out who your next meeting is with
• Create and manage lists
• Set reminders and alarms
• Find facts, definitions, and info
• Open apps on your computer

Trying to perform any of these actions gets the "I don't know how to do that" error.

In regards to using "Hey Cortana", the two articles from JosephT71 have this.

When I try to enable voice activation, I get this, despite my build being way above .329

Don't have any updates pending for my computer.

If cortana cannot be used to interface/control apps on a windows 10 computer it has no place either at home or in the enterprise.

To clarify Cortana should be able, as the first draft was, to start an application passing parameters.

That is what it used to do when you told it to play a mp3 file.

It wasn't until much later that Iheartradio and spotify came into the equation and local music playing was lost.

Cortana should be able to open word with word documents, excel with excel documents and either media player, groove or movies/tv  with media documents (playlists or other multimedia files).

The developers have blinders on and are completely missing the mark on this, just as windows as a service has completely missed its mark.

Even settings are not the same on two comparable workstations because windows builds the settings based on the hardware it finds and it seldom does it correctly.   Heaven help location services and maps for instance.

Were I still in IT and not retired windows would not be my operating system of choice.