homepod won't play playlists

Hi, I understand you fixed this by deleting and setting up again. One thing I noticed is that I ask Siri to play "Party Playlist" and it works fine. As opposed to to "Play playlist party". I don't know if this would make a difference.

To be able to use Siri on HomePod to call up a playlist by name you must have an active iCloud Music Library, which in turn is a feature of Apple Music and/or iTunes Match. If you don't want to use either of those services then you can use AirPay from an iOS device, Mac, or iTunes.

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Same situation here too with my Homepod. I noticed something weird though. While I am a subscriber to iTunes and utilize iTunes iMatch, I have also generated multiple playlists by using Genius in iTunes that will not play unless I use airplay. I have had these playlists for a long time. The only playlists it plays are those that were prepared under the iTunes subscription and setup through iTunes. However it will not play any Genius playlists that I have in my iTunes account. Now what is the weird part is that when I ask the Homepod to play one of my "Genius" playlists, it will recognize the playlist and say okay playing playlist, but no sound will come out of the Homepod.

I got it to work now. I reset the Homepod, and I went to the iMac and set up homesharing and all other settings I thought would be important and it now works. Guess it is just my lack of familiarity with iTunes that was the problem. This discussion helped though thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Same problem here. Reading the thread, it seems some devices have the issue and others don't. Which means Apple will eventually fix it through an update. Another option--return and exchange the device--roll the dice and see if you get one of the good ones.

What sort of works for me is:

- "Hey Siri" "List Playlists" replies "which playlist?" then say a playlist name in my iTunes Library eg "90's Music" or "Year 2017" works for me. But I note some of the playlists will not be recognised as expected eg "My Top Rated" will play a song matching the middle word.

"hey siri, playlists" does not work for me, HomePod just plays some random song instead.

I tried power cycling, removing HomePod from HomeKit, which makes no difference to the above behaviour.

Hoping Siri on HomePod will improve with future software update, but for now playlists is partially working for me.

HomePod isn't quite ready for prime time.

Here's what I've found: If the name of my playlist is a single word like "Favorites" instead of "All My Favorites" AND you say "Hey Siri, play playlist Favorites," it sometimes works. However, if my playlist is two or more words OR if I say "Hey Siri, play Favorites playlist," instead of "...playlist Favorites" then it doesn't work.

I know that HomePod hears all my words when there are multiple words in the playlist name because she says "I couldn't find 'All My Favorites' in your music," but she doesn't seem to recognize it as a playlist at all.

Ya gotta do better, Apple. Alexa is eating your lunch!

OK so I'm having similar issues. I have iTunes Match and Apple Music and tons of playlists I've had forever. Siri recognizes the playlist but doesn't play anything. So I say "Hey Siri, play my Tom2018 playlist" and she says "Playlist Tom2018 now playing" but nothing. If I look from my iPhone it shows the HomePod not playing anything. If I try to play to the HomePod you see the next song for a second and then it returns to not playing. Resetting the HomePod seems a little extreme - I'm hoping there is an update coming soon. BTW - I ask it to play some other playlists and sometimes it works. It's crazy. Apple - listen to these people here - HomePod is NOT stable. Those of us here are the ones that actually bought this thing despite all the bad press. All of us here are long time iTunes users, don't give a crap about Spotify BUT expect our Apple stuff to work. BTW2- my Watch and iPhone still occasionally answer instead of HomePod and start playing music which is really annoying.

I am having a very similar problem. I was advised to try restarting the HomePod and this did work for 24 hours but now the problem has appeared again.

The process is - I ask Siri to play my playlist.

Siri says "XXXX playlist now playing" - no sound.

Unplugging HomePod then plugging in again solves the problem but only for 24 hours or so.

...oh and I think I'd rather just return mine, get one in the future when it's on sale and actually works. Early adoption, in this case, is expensive and frustrating and I've had just about every Apple device on day 1. (first iPod and iPhone included along with Mac Color Classic!).

Yes, monthly based on subscription choice. $4.99 to $19.99 (I think) USD.

As for the playlists, when you add them in iTunes, please select all the songs and right click and "add songs to apple music library" and wait until they're uploaded and matched. Most songs created, even playlists from Apple do not always match correctly. This additional step solved my version of the same problem.

Maybe try re-explaining then, it seems pretty clear that your playlists are not working. Most of mine were not until I did what I just suggested.

You can also check your settings in Home and make sure you're not restricting access. Try setting access to everyone (if not set that way now) and see if that fixes it.

Are you using a different ID/Login for iTunes / iCould?

All of my settings are correct. I'm the only Apple ID. It used to work...then it just worked sometimes...now playlists won't play at all. I have not changed anything. I realize that sounds weird but that is how it happened and others are having the same issues. Read above where people reset their home pod and that works (it plays playlists again), but only for a day or two.

I am having the same exact issue. I have Apple Music and ITunes Match. HomePod will not play any of the playlist I created. It plays other playlists that fiends have created that are in my library. It will understand my command and say now playing but it doesn’t play.