Playing an ambient Continuous Sound as part of a scene.

Is it possible to play an ambient Continuous Sound as part of a scene? I can say Siri play the sound of rain. Then she plays a continuous track of rain. But I can’t get the HomePod to do this any other way. I can get the HomePod to do anything else through the home app except this. I want to use this as part of a scene. Is this just simply not possible. Is this a track I can find in Apple Music? If so, how. It’s not considered recently played either. Thank you.

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Posted on Sep 15, 2021 9:14 PM

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Sep 16, 2021 2:22 AM in response to Vancouver22

From the screen shot you can see that it is Rain by Apple. It is simply not in Apple Music. So, what I get from you is the answer is no you can’t play the HomePod Ambient sounds in a scene. I already knew I could play anything else that was in Apple Music. But the ambient sounds are not there. None of the 7 ambient sounds that the HomePod can play are there.

Sep 16, 2021 3:42 AM in response to markfromlandolakes

I know what it’s called in your screenshot but there’s hundreds if not thousands of rain songs in their catalogue. You can’t reconfigure the length of time ambient sounds play. If you want it to play longer, do as suggested and make a playlist on repeat. See if you like anything in this playlist: You can use these Apple Music playlists in scenes or automations. Or one track in your own playlist you create.


Sep 16, 2021 12:52 AM in response to markfromlandolakes

You probably can find it on Apple Music but you’d have to ask Siri. Or use another device that has Siri, like an iPhone to Shazam it, just ask Siri “what song is this”. If it says I can’t do that, ask again because it can. Siri has built in Shazam. Once you know the title of your favourite rain track, you create a playlist in Apple Music and use that playlist of one track to play on repeat so it loops..


There’s loads of nature sounds with rain on Apple Music you can search for like soft rain, thunder storms, jungle rain, hard rain and so on.

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Playing an ambient Continuous Sound as part of a scene.

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