homepod won't play playlists

The IOS device used to pair the HomePod is the device where playlists come from therefore syncing ALL devices with iTunes is essential

Yes, Settings > Music > iCloud Music Library should be On for the device used to configure the HomePod, as should Settings > Account > iCloud > Keychain.

tt2

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.

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.

Same here, It works intermittently, nothing I can do to solve issue. Thought i solved it once, but then I was wrong. very frustrating.

update: Sync all iOS devices with you iTunes library and wait a while, it seems to sort it out, just not immediately

Restarted mine about 8-10 days ago, has not duplicated this issue since the restart. Sorry yours is only giving you 24-hours. Not sure if a HW issues or SW or even a configuration (iOS/Network) issue?

Hi

Same issue here but it all started after updating to iOS 11.3 and it is not only homepod problem I can not make Siri play any recently created playlists on any device (iPhone, AppleTv, HomePod).

Support was not very helpful so far.

Perhaps you need to actively release control of the HomePod from the Mac by choosing a different audio output for it.

tt2

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.

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.

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.

Anyways it has nothing to do with that.

I reset my my homepod and restart. It works just great! For about 24 hours...

Eventually no playlists again. It gets worse with time, until the only thing it will do is "playing your songs shuffled".

that would probably work. i quit iTunes and cycled power to the HP, and that also worked.

i was posting the above at least half as a bug report, because of course you shouldn't have to do any of the above.

Same issue.When I ask Siri to play the playlist she responds "playing..." but no sound. I tried resetting and it work for a day, then same. I tried unplugging and this fixed it again, but I expect it will continue. Please help us Obewan.

Everyone needs to report this to Apple Support by logging a call. This needs to be done so that Apple build up knowledge of what is going on and work out a fix. This page is good in terms of knowing you are not alone but to make things happen people need to report the issue to Apple Support or an Apple store.