Again, let's remember this is a new problem. I've had the homepod mini since it was first available. I never connected it directly to my system, just to my network. It always used to play whatever we asked, even if I did not own that music in my disk library.
Now, just this month of May, it will not play anything. "I cannot find ________ in your Apple Music Library."
There was another thread about this, and apparently it was a system outage that Apple corrected. Except I am fortunate enough to get to experience a similar problem but without a quick resolution.
I have attempted all the pedestrian solutions. I have disconnected, restarted, re-installed, re-added the homepod mini and my iphone multiple times. The result is the same. No change.
From what I can tell, the problem is not on this side of the fence.