HomePod stops playing music after an hour or two. The playlist is 8 hours long and I would like to listen to it while I sleep. Thank you!

I don't think the HomePod has any kind of time limit on music playback (assuming that your playlist or music library is long enough). Also and unfortunately, if seems like the HomePod has no sleep timer for music playback nor any way to limit playback to a certain length of time, nothing like "Hey Siri, play music for thirty minutes."

However, there have been a good number of reports that the HomePod will not play certain songs and given the latter it would seem possible that whenever the HomePod encounters such a song it will just stop the playback even if you've requested a playlist or music source that contains additional content. So, maybe that is what you are experiencing.

Also, it's certainly possible that there is a bug that just stops playback randomly and you're just seeing that on average each hour or two. It may even be a network error since if the HomePod can't connect to one of Apple's servers it would have no option other than to stop playback.

Same issue here but it has nothing to do with removed music from Apple's catalogue.

There are a small amount of people having an issue with HomePod just pausing at random intervals. Only happens when streaming music or podcasts via Airstream on iOS devices.

Hello JandyJoe...that small amount of people is growing:Re: Homepod pausing music

And, the problem is not isolated to streaming from iOS devices. This is happening directly through the HomePod itself...and I have three of them...all of which are pausing randomly and when playing an 8-hour playlist stops after each song! Lydia. the senior advisor I am working with has escalated the problem to engineering. ~William

I have got the same problem of random pausing thr music on the HomePod. This only happens when the iPhone has been locked. If unlocked and focus is on my Tidal music app I have not yet noticed this pausing problem. It might work as a temporary workaround but as it drains the battery quicker Apple should solve the problem quickly.