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YouTube Music Integration May Be Coming to HomePod
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I've yet to figure that out. I was trying to send music to a friend's google home and couldn't do it.
I know you can add Apple Music to google home, if you own/manage the speaker, but not if you are just wanting to send it to someone else's speaker.
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How to Play Apple Music on Google Home
Apple Music doesn't work on Google Home by default, but you can set it up using a phone. Then you can ask Google Assistant to play Apple Music songs.
Rumor has it Google is working on it:
https://9to5google.com/2023/06/06/youtube-music-apps-apple-tv-homepod/
… intentional and deliberate. (If that is what you were hinting at with the ellipsis at the end of your sentence.)
By all indication Spotify doesn’t want to support the HomePod. Spotify very easily could support the HomePod if it wanted to. There is no technical reason why Spotify hasn’t already done so.
YT Music's pretty good. One thing I miss from Spotify is using one device as a remote control (ex. iPhone) to switch tracks on the music-playing device (iPad/iMac etc). I find Apple Music cumbersome, whether it's the on the Mac or on the mobile devices.
Together with ad-free YT, it's a massive hit. Apple TV is no competition for YouTube.
It's not perfect (are any though?) but the complete package with no ads is well worth the money. Especially if you know how to use a VPN 😉
I wish YT music supported cellular streaming on the watch. If they're working on the homepod, maybe that gives us hope for the future support in apple-ecosystems.
I would appreciate this integration. AirPlay is so slow to establish a connection, especially on my original gen HomePod.
You have to have the associated iPhone powered on if you want to add things to a Reminders list, call someone, check or send messages, run shortcuts, etc.
If you have a "dumb" speaker next to your iPhone, for example, instead of having a HomePod, you can do all of those things. The only advantage there of the HomePod is the mic array (and probably the sound quality if you're not using a mini).
This is wonderful news, if it happens. Fingers crossed YouTube adds the option soon.
Considering that it is essentially free (with subscription for YouTube Premium), it's a great value.
The moral of the story is that smart speakers gives you something that the others do not, and viceversa. No tech device ever is going to do everything all the time, much less seamlessly. And that´s ok. It´s all about needs, preferences, and compromises, like everything else in life.
Homepods, within it´s category (smart speakers world), are not, at all, by any means whatsoever, platform/content agnostic. You can´t even activate them without an IOS device. And that´s fine. If you want that, go with Sonos or Google.
Yep, that's why I ditched my Sonos for a Denon Home 150. It's still a smart speaker, but also has an aux-in and BT connection.
It’s terrible. I do subscribe to YouTube premium for the add free features. YouTube music is trash though.
And today’s winner of the “Surreptitious insertion of a song title into a forum post” award goes to 🏆🏅🏆👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This is why i like it, you can listen to mixes, old versions of albums that have been remastered, really the audio to just about any youtube video. It's pretty sick
Obligatory Spotify Community link to go and add your voice if you care about Spotify implementing this, if you haven't already.
They will continue to ignore it, but it's the 9th most requested feature now, and the youngest request on the top 10 list by more than a year, so we can at least "hold their feet to the fire" about it.
They will continue to ignore it, but it's the 9th most requested feature now, and the youngest request on the top 10 list by more than a year, so we can at least "hold their feet to the fire" about it.
Ya, because in 2023, what people exactly are playing music in those formats….?
A lot of people play LPs and have a nice collection.
I have a decent amount of music that isn't on any streaming service, anywhere, including YouTube. I could rip it I guess, but I haven't. Some of it is on CD, some of it is on LP, some on cassette.
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