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HomePod Apple Music Playlists HomePodOS 16

Itinj24

Itinj24

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Siri on my HomePods are refusing to recognize my playlists in Apple Music.

“I can’t find xxxxx playlist in your Apple Music library.”

This is every HomePod in my house. I tried rebooting the HomePods (hard and soft), rebooting my phone, rebooting my network and Siri just refuses.

This has go to be the worst update yet. One would think it would get better over time. It’s only a smart speaker FFS, it has one job! Guess a full reset is next for all my HomePods 🤦
 
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What an effing nightmare this update has been.

Tried signing out but it won’t let me sign back in. Keeps timing out. Did a factory reset of one of the HomePods and now it fails to set up.

The Apple HomeKit department is run by a bunch of juveniles.

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OMG what a nightmare your having.....cant offer any additional suggestions unfortunately.

This is just another example of what makes me mad in the world these days.......NOTHING works as its supposed to anymore (Except my Tado heating system, that has been rock solid from day 1)....and lots of things are built to be replaced instead of fixed if problems do happen.
 
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malcky77 said:
OMG what a nightmare your having.....cant offer any additional suggestions unfortunately.

This is just another example of what makes me mad in the world these days.......NOTHING works as its supposed to anymore (Except my Tado heating system, that has been rock solid from day 1)....and lots of things are built to be replaced instead of fixed if problems do happen.
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When my tech don’t work, I’m the Incredible Hulk lol.

Had to remove Screen Time to be able to sign out but I had no restrictions set for myself which was odd. I’m just having a whole slew of issues. It doesn’t stop. Can’t sign into Apple Music, can’t sign into Media and Purchases in iCloud, iPad won’t take app updates, etc. just got a bad batch of updates I suppose, if that’s even possible. Finally got that HomePod into “Configuring” using my iPad Pro but we’ll see if it makes through to the end. Looks like it’s an issue with my account and media/App Store type stuff. Was fine until my HomePods got the update.

Anyways, appreciate your help. Hopefully setting up my iPhone 14 Pro will resolve all of this. It already comes with a .0.1 update out the box.
 
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Siri on my HomePods are refusing to recognize my playlists in Apple Music.

“I can’t find xxxxx playlist in your Apple Music library.”

This is every HomePod in my house. I tried rebooting the HomePods (hard and soft), rebooting my phone, rebooting my network and Siri just refuses.

This has go to be the worst update yet. One would think it would get better over time. It’s only a smart speaker FFS, it has one job! Guess a full reset is next for all my HomePods 🤦
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I just now ran into this issue tonight. I asked Siri to play a specific song that wasn’t in my library but that shouldn’t matter. I added it to my library then tried again. Same message “I couldn’t find ‘You Are The Best Thing’ by Ray Lamontagne in your Apple Music library”.

I then tried something that’s been in my library for years and it said the same thing. Never had this issue before. i also assume it’s a glitch in in iOS 16 so I’m reporting it to Apple. Not sure why it’s searching my library and not just an Apple Music server for an individual song.
 
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mjs916 said:
I just now ran into this issue tonight. I asked Siri to play a specific song that wasn’t in my library but that shouldn’t matter. I added it to my library then tried again. Same message “I couldn’t find ‘You Are The Best Thing’ by Ray Lamontagne in your Apple Music library”.

I then tried something that’s been in my library for years and it said the same thing. Never had this issue before. i also assume it’s a glitch in in iOS 16 so I’m reporting it to Apple. Not sure why it’s searching my library and not just an Apple Music server for an individual song.
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Turned out that updating to iOS 16 wiped out my playlists. I signed out of iCloud and back in and they came back. Check your playlists to see if they’re still there.
 
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Siri on my HomePods has gotten even dumber since iOS 16 came out.
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For this one I used to be able to say “hey siri, play a list classical on all HomePods.” That worked every time. Now the response is something like I don’t see a list classical in your library. So I have to say “play the a list classical playlist” and it works.
 
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Itinj24 said:
Turned out that updating to iOS 16 wiped out my playlists. I signed out of iCloud and back in and they came back. Check your playlists to see if they’re still there.
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Thankfully my playlists are all there.

I will give signing out on the HomePod a try. The same exact command to my iPhone works as expected.

Thanks for the suggestion.

EDIT: How long has this (image)been in the primary user section? It uses my Apple ID but it also shows me as a separate user. I’m guessing it’s the default and I’m in there separately because I have voice recognition on.
 

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Thankfully my playlists are all there.

I will give signing out on the HomePod a try. The same exact command to my iPhone works as expected.

Thanks for the suggestion.

EDIT: How long has this (image)been in the primary user section? It uses my Apple ID but it also shows me as a separate user. I’m guessing it’s the default and I’m in there separately because I have voice recognition on.
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Not sure when that came out but yeah it’s because you have voice recognition. So if a friend comes over and asks the HomePod to play music, it won’t use your or anyone in your home’s playlists and such. I thought that was always a thing even without this default HomePod account.
 
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@Itinj24

Same here on everything you said. As you have found out, there is currently a major bug with the pods where if you log out of your account in the home app, you cannot log back in (it throws an error), unless you factory reset the pods.

Absolutely insane.

A software update is needed ASAP.
 
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B/D said:
@Itinj24

Same here on everything you said. As you have found out, there is currently a major bug with the pods where if you log out of your account in the home app, you can log back in (it throws an error), unless you factory reset the pods.

Absolutely insane.

A software update is needed ASAP.
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Feels like a developer beta 1. I’m afraid to touch anything in my setup now.
 
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B/D said:
@Itinj24

Same here on everything you said. As you have found out, there is currently a major bug with the pods where if you log out of your account in the home app, you cannot log back in (it throws an error), unless you factory reset the pods.

Absolutely insane.

A software update is needed ASAP.
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Is this a recognised bug by Apple or just another one to add to the list that they may or may not be aware of?
 
We have exactly the same problem here.

As a workaround you can control a HomePod on one of your iOS devices and start music playing on the HomePod that way. (Not using AirPlay, using the ‘control other speakers & TVs’ option)
 
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danmart said:
I’ve reported it today, too. So hopefully that helps get some attention on it.
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Unfortunately I dont think we are going to see another audioOS update until tvOS 16.1 gets released. I bet that IOS 16.0.3, just like IOS 16.0.2, will be an IOS only bug fix oriented update. IOS seems to get the maximum priority for bug fixes, which is completely understandable, since the Apple TV is a very stable device and the Homepods are just speakers.

The problem is that unlike the Apple TV, the Homepod OS has always been a trainwreck. It has only a very limited set of tasks, no screen and no apps, and yet it is surprisingly unreliable. Not to mention their companion software, the terrible home app, which is absolutely awful.

I think Apple have to rethink the Homepod software completely, and from scratch.
 
danmart said:
We have exactly the same problem here.

As a workaround you can control a HomePod on one of your iOS devices and start music playing on the HomePod that way. (Not using AirPlay, using the ‘control other speakers & TVs’ option)
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My issue was with my Apple Music account so that wouldn’t have helped much but I appreciate the heads up. When I updated, my playlists were not only blank, but nonexistent. I had to sign out and back into iCloud for them to populate. This is one extremely annoying update. Worst I’ve seen yet in recent years.
 
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