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iOS 14.5: How to Set a Preferred Music Streaming Service With Siri
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Worked with my Deezer app yesssss
It changes everything for me and my airplay 2 setup! Finally!!!!
It changes everything for me and my airplay 2 setup! Finally!!!!
I had big hopes to play a song from Spotify on my HomePod Mini with Siri...It seems not possible still
Does anyone know how to change the default player after the fact? It defaulted to Apple Music for mine and I want Spotify
Really? I am getting error: Sorry you'll need to continue in Youtube Music
No one has been asking for this. People have been asking for a choice of default music streaming service. This ain't it.
They aren't overthinking. They're being intentional. They don't want to offer users the choice of choosing a default streaming app, so they provide this half measure.
You can't change it. It remains Apple Music. This is strictly a Siri interaction. From the article:
"However, Apple has since clarified that there isn't actually any option to choose a music service that will be selected on every occasion. More accurately, the feature in question uses Siri intelligence to learn from your listening habits and improve the music selection process over time."
Siri gets used to your choice over time and selects it. You have to use Siri though for it to work. AM is still your default.
If after you select an application, it remembers to use that application in the future, then how do you change it?
That usually works, for a day or two...
Siri asked me constantly which app to use during the beta test. I only have AppleMusic. Don’t know why it couldn’t “remember” to use that one app.
Siri is blaming Amazon. When I ask it to play something on Amazon Music, it replies, "Amazon Music isn't added support for that with Siri."
wow, this is a mess:
- asked for a podcast, was offered options that did not include Google Podcasts (no surprise, but still a stupid omission)
- told Siri to use apple podcasts app, and got the "something's gone wrong" error
- tried again, was shown the YouTube player with "Podcasts" in the top caption area (see attached)
So assuming this eventually gets sorted out, how can I change my preference for what Siri uses?
- asked for a podcast, was offered options that did not include Google Podcasts (no surprise, but still a stupid omission)
- told Siri to use apple podcasts app, and got the "something's gone wrong" error
- tried again, was shown the YouTube player with "Podcasts" in the top caption area (see attached)
So assuming this eventually gets sorted out, how can I change my preference for what Siri uses?
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Where do you have your "own" music then? if it's still in the Music App, that's the app you choose. You're choosing to get hung up on semantics. I have a 25k album library and it all works perfectly exactly as described to get Siri to play my own music.
Google hasn't added the hooks into it for Siri. Those APIs have been available since iOS 12. Once they do the option will be available.
Most likely because the Podcasts app got a major update and needed to update the library before it could actually play anything. I opened up the podcast app (manually) after the update and it took about 30 seconds to update my library before the new interface loaded and it was operational. That was most likely the issue there.
Due to my last point, because the Podcast app wasn't responding, it tried to offer something else up by way of general search, possibly related to your history but I could be wrong here. Either way, if it was not expected behavior, it's wrong behavior.
The same instruction above applies.
This 'feature' hasn't 'been added', it has existed since the first iPhone. I use Siri to control my Music Library, and now my Spotify library as well.
I’m an Apple Music listener and Since this feature came in I tried it out using Spotify and back to Apple Music and now every time I ask Siri to play some music she asks which service to use
no matter how many times I say Apple Music over and over she won’t learn
this has fundamentally broken the way I use Siri and Apple Music
“hey Siri play my favourites mix”
“which service do you want to use?”
tap on Apple Music
“I can’t find anything called my favourites mix”
this used to work every time
I rephrase “play favourites mix”
she asks which service I tap Apple Music
“Playing favourites mix” 🤦🏻♂️
no matter how many times I say Apple Music over and over she won’t learn
this has fundamentally broken the way I use Siri and Apple Music
“hey Siri play my favourites mix”
“which service do you want to use?”
tap on Apple Music
“I can’t find anything called my favourites mix”
this used to work every time
I rephrase “play favourites mix”
she asks which service I tap Apple Music
“Playing favourites mix” 🤦🏻♂️
I would so love to know how that works. I've been trying to find out how to have my Homepod mini default to my music library on my iMac. I don't subscribe to a music service as I don't want it. I had Apple Music for a number of years but it essentially destroyed my own music library. At one point, it somehow deleted all the track information (album,title, artists, etc.) from over a 1000 files. I have a ton of public domain files, project sound recordings, etc. And since none of those existed on Apple's service, their track information was purged.
It wasn't until I finally dropped the service that I was able to get control of a lot of those tracks again -- albeit over a long long period of time. But really, I would love to learn how to have my HomePod mini stop telling me tha it cannot find the recording I want it to play because it is trying to play it from Apple's music serivce. I just can't get it to point to my own iMac music library. Seems a very basic function to me.
I totaly dislike this recent push to drive Apple users to these online services all the time. I'm not interested in paying a monthly fee for things I don't need. Nor do I appreciate feeling like I'm being forced into it simply to get something to work the way it once did. Simply, and reliably. It seems once Job's left this planet, Apple has begun reverting to some of it's old tactics that got it into trouble in the 90s.
Me damn too! I have this damn homepod mini and it is fast becoming nothing more than landfill. I don't have any interest in a service. I have tons of material of my own on my iMac. It's all just 0s and 1s... I cannot be convinced that in 2021 that Apple cannot simply make that happen. But, they are trying to force people into paying monthly fees for various cloud services, whether it is iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Books, etc., that is what this is all about.
I certainly miss Mr. Jobs. But no matter how messed up Apple might become, he won't be coming back to fix it this time. It would be in their best interest to stop behaving in the heavy handed way that Microcrap does.
Same here... I want to strangle that little bugger each time he replies with that. He' is about the size of a baseball and lucky for him I am not into repairing windows, else he would go flying right through it never to be seen or heard from again.
