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How to Ask Siri on HomePod to Play Apple Music Playlists, Genres, Moods, and More

Could anyone, who owns HomePod, and likes electronic music, give a listen to

TIPPER - AMBERGRIS
TIPPER - SCAPULA
TIPPER - DEAD SOON

and tell me, how does it sound?

The thing with Tipper’s music, is, that it is very skillfully mastered in surround sound.
Sounds good in stereo, sounds amazing in surround. Just would like to know if HomePod is good enough to reproduce the sound like this

Thank you
 
justperry said:
Too many Homepod articles to my liking lately, and no, I don't read these HP articles, just think MR is overdoing it.
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I hear you, for something that’s most likely a niche product for the foreseeable future, it feels a little over the top, it’s basically turned MR into HomePod Central. But I get it, it’s a new product, there’s not a whole lot of other Apple news or rumors right now, and more information is better than less information (I’d probably be glad for all the articles if I was buying one but I’m not because the current iteration is too limiting in many ways for my use).
 
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MacRumors said:
"Hey Siri, who is the drummer in this?"
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We’ll see if Siri is any smarter in a HomePod than anywhere else. Here how she handled a drummer question for me:

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After requesting a song and it has finished playing, you can say “Hey Siri, play it again” and the song will start up again.
 
I was wondering how to find the personal playlist that HomePod created for me and now I know. Thanks.
 
I always use ‘hey Siri play something I like’ and it’s almost always on the money. Question is how does it find the music. It isn’t songs I’ve liked in the past with the like button? I also don’t think it goes off play count?
 
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justperry said:
Too many Homepod articles to my liking lately, and no, I don't read these HP articles, just think MR is overdoing it.
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It's the newest product what did you expect? And if there were no articles on it then people would be jumping all over Apple about how they failed on this product and they are doomed!
 
[*]"Hey Siri, play the best songs from the '90s."
[*]"Hey Siri, play the top 10 songs from 1986."
[*]"Hey Siri, play the top song from April 17, 1992."

These don’t work in the uk.
I’m no coder but you’d think that this would be simple enough - is it a rights issue?

O well - No name the 1985 song pop quiz then!
 
Bryan Bowler said:
Thank you MacRumors! Admittedly, I have not used Siri as much as I could, so this article was helpful to me in learning some of the things I can do with Siri and my HomePod.
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I don’t use Siri much except in Car Play (which ultimately is Iphone really) but find I ONLY use Siri with Homepod and find it about 99% accurate. I’ve used it to ask about movies playing and where, weather, send messages, and of course music-and more (I’m always willing to try and see if I get an answer). One of my favorite things is to have Siri add to my grocery list as I find I need something (it will create a list too). Right now I’m playing the hit tracks from Singer/Songwriters genre from Ipad (because I haven’t figured out how to ask Siri to play those) but when I hear one I like I ask Siri to add it to my Spring 2018 playlist—or I will favorite/like a song. I often Ask Siri to play my local NPR station which it plays through Apple Music Radio. I’m waiting for Airplay 2 to likely add a second Homepod.
 
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When I try to play one of my playlists, Siri tells me it can't find my playlist. "I can't find Practice in your music". I'm pretty sure the songs played are from my iTunes library.

I do not yet have Apple Music, but plan on getting it after I get these other issues solved.
 
Howard Brazee said:
When I try to play one of my playlists, Siri tells me it can't find my playlist. "I can't find Practice in your music". I'm pretty sure the songs played are from my iTunes library.

I do not yet have Apple Music, but plan on getting it after I get these other issues solved.
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I’m not sure—but don’t think it will work with an Itunes library (I have one too prior to Music) but only Apple Music. I got around this by repeating an Itune playlist IN Apple Music, giving it a distinctive name, and then find Siri plays it, will shuffle it, will advance tracks andwill stop/pause and resume the same list. I have a lot of lists—do a new one for each season for ‘current’ music, adding in some old faves, have a number for various classical and jazz too—and sometimes find a playlist from Apple suggestions (For You) I add. I’ve only had one playlist Siri had trouble finding—Contemporary Classical, an Apple playlist—probably something to do with recognizing my pronounciation of Contemporary—I selected all (tracks), added to a new playlist I called Odd Classical and now we get along great LOL.

I do favorite a lot of music—either by listening to an Apple station, listening to a suggested playlist or artist or new music, Now one of my favorite things with Homepod (and I now do have two)is to walk into the room and say “Hey Siri, play me something I’d like”. Or “Hey Siri, play me classical I’d like”. I suspect this only works well if you have made a habit of ‘liking’ (or favoriting) things—easy to do with Homepod/Siri. I may be doing something, have music on and hear something I like—I just say Hey Siri, I like that.

BTW-if you want to play something thru Homepods besides Apple Music just Airplay from Phone or Ipad—Like Pandora or Spotify. I do listen to Podcasts thru Homepod and ask Siri to play what I want—but find it needs to be fairly specific—latest Podcast by..... for instance.
 
Howard Brazee said:
When I try to play one of my playlists, Siri tells me it can't find my playlist. "I can't find Practice in your music". I'm pretty sure the songs played are from my iTunes library.

I do not yet have Apple Music, but plan on getting it after I get these other issues solved.
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I do have Apple Music, but anytime I ask her to play a certain playlist, she is quick to do it. Whether it be a personally created one or an Apple Music one.
 
I have an Echo Dot and a Homepod. The Echo Dot is brilliant and useful. The Echo Dot cost $20. The Home pod cost $400 and is a worthless piece of junk.
 
It doesn't have to be that way. Software can fix these bugs. Software can improve it so that I can ask it to play until my bedtime, then start off playing when it's time to wake up (only quieter). Software can follow me around a house playing the same song from one room to another. Software can tell me the weather every day 5 minutes before I leave for work. Apple had a great thing with SIRI, but let its competition take over.
 
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