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Sometimes I ask Siri to play certain music on my HomePod and it responds that it can’t find it in my library. I found the solution: delete your music library from iCloud and then rebuild it (in Music on my Mac, I select all songs and then choose Add to Library.
Yes it does that now.
I don’t think it will play music that was copied from CD’s that you have in your library. I’m not entirely sure but there’s some limits. I have Apple Music so I can’t test.
If you have an Apple Music subscription, then you can ask Siri to play anything from the Apple Music catalog, your library, and access features, like finding songs by lyrics and adding music to your library.
If you don't have an Apple Music membership, then you can ask Siri to play music from your music library, including your iTunes purchases.
Yes it does that now.
I don’t think it will play music that was copied from CD’s that you have in your library. I’m not entirely sure but there’s some limits. I have Apple Music so I can’t test.
If you have an Apple Music subscription, then you can ask Siri to play anything from the Apple Music catalog, your library, and access features, like finding songs by lyrics and adding music to your library.
If you don't have an Apple Music membership, then you can ask Siri to play music from your music library, including your iTunes purchases.
Another time you might use Identify cloud status icons in your music library on your Mac or PC - Apple Support to check if there is content that hasn't matched or uploaded and address that in a more targeted fashion. Signing out of your Apple ID and back in again in the Home app for your HomePod can also refresh its copy of the library without you needing to delete anything.
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Now, it asks you to select a default account. When I go to change it, it checks Apple Music (I don't use Apple Music) and then returns to my original account. Siri will play music from my library on my iPhone, iPad and Mac, but not on my HomePods. I can stream from my iPhone to the HomePods.
Siri should be able to play from your unhidden purchase history, or your iCloud Music Library if you have Apple Music or iTunes Match. If you have iTunes Match you should disable the Recognize my Voice feature on HomePod, enabling this seems to break things.
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That didn’t work. I do have iTunes Match. I can say “hey Siri play some music” and it responds “playing all songs, shuffled”. And it plays from my library. But if I ask to play a specific artist or genre, it says it can’t find that in my library.
Do you have the Recognize my voice feature disabled?
I currently have Apple Music so I cannot test behaviour with iTunes Match personally, but other report that is does work as expected as long as you don't enable that feature.
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I tried turning off the Personal Requests feature and resetting the HomePods but that made no difference. I found that it can find some music that I have purchased from iTunes, but not all - for example, I say "play Willie Nelson" and it responds "OK, here's some Willie Nelson" but it doesn't play anything. If I have an artist that has no purchased music (just music I uploaded from CD's) then it can't find any music by that artist. However, when I just say "play music" it plays non-purchased music and can even identify the song and artist that is currently playing. It seems like it has all the music but has lost the index to non-purchased music. I have tried to "Update the iTunes Library" and "Update Genius" but none of that works. I have over 17,000 songs in my library - is there a limit?
Update - I just subscribed to Apple Music and guess what? It found all my music including artists that Apple Music doesn't have. So it appears that you must have a subscription to Apple Music to access your personal library.
How do I sign off my Apple ID in the Home app?
Hmm, well it was Home app > HomePod > Music & Podcasts > Select account > Sign out, but it is possible things have changed.
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HomePod can’t find music
