![]() The Apple HomePod mini is a fantastic speaker in its own right and its small stature and low price put it squarely up against some of the best smart speakers on the market, including the Amazon Echo Studio and the Sonos One – but the HomePod is Apple's inaugural flagship wireless speaker – and the only one that supports Apple Music's much-lauded Lossless and Spatial Audio content. This is because a date of September 7 has been all but set in stone for the iPhone 14 launch event (and new iPad and iPad Pros are tipped to appear at a slightly later event in October), but we've yet to hear a peep from our sources regarding the likelihood of a HomePod 2 appearance at said events – and we'd expect some leaked tidbits of information ahead of a big reveal. So I use my HomePod as a remote speaker for it or for radio stations.So, an updated Apple HomePod and a refreshed HomePod mini, maybe? It seems highly likely.īut when though? Well, the best guess is soon but not imminently. It would be nice to simplify the name of podcasts, but the one I care about most is purchased, and I had to do special stuff to get it to my iTunes. (My radio station is not eligible to be in the iCloud music library anyway) Radio Stations (a different radio station, not the one I have in this playlist) I’ve simplified names from what they were before to make it easy to say: I have added the cloud icon to display in my iTunes lists, and sorted by it to make sure I didn’t have any clouds in songs selected. I have turned off my HomePod and added it back in. I have Apple Music (only to access my iTunes), but not Match. ![]() I have tried playlists both on and off of a subfolder. I have tried multiple renames of playlists, and have told iTunes/File/Library/Update iCloud Music Library multiple times. I have some playlists that my HomePod finds, and others it doesn’t. Oh, and the phone music interface goes back to its native state after a while, whereupon it needs reconnection to the HP directly. ![]() You can actually initiate play from the watch music app, attaching to the HomePod, but that turns out to be just Airplay from the phone.That NP screen is subtly different: I've tried restarting the watch, that didn't help. Only stopping the playback and restarting it works (until you need the watch for something else). But, if one navigates away from this at some point, there is no way to get it back (it doesn't appear in the app list, absurdly). If it's set to auto-start on music play, we do get the screen at first (with nice HP icon at top):Īs I mentioned above, I find it a ****** nuisance when this comes up automatically. What's more, there is no way of getting to the Now Playing screen if you're not in it. Slightly slower update: The Now Playing watch sub-app and the Music app now seem to be entirely separate. The music continues, but the controls won’t work unless it’s reconnected by the method above.īut here’s hoping Airplay 2 arrives soon, as this is not a long-term solution the device is pretty much unusable in its current state. Oh, and the phone’s Now Playing screen loses its place too, and reverts back to whatever it was connected to, showing that music, after a few minutes. Something else I should feed back to Apple about. um, hit and miss there (and everywhere else) can’t change the volume ”by” a percentage (Siri, what’s a preposition?) There needs to be a visible percentage in the controls for this. One disadvantage the watch Now Playing does not pick up this version of the Now Playing screen, and that’s what I need to use to fine-tune the volume. I’ll try it out to see if the stopping stops. I found this way of playing a while ago, but assumed it was just another route into Airplay. Fascinating don’t know how I missed this, but thanks very much! I’ve had nothing but bother with Airplay (losing sync with the interfaces, and stopping).
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