Homepod stops playing — not a connectivity issue

I am also having this issue.

About 50% of the time if I ask Siri to play a particular subscribed podcast she'll reply I do not have any unplayed episodes. So I then start the 'unplayed' podcast on my iPhone X and Airplay to the HP. More times then not it will stop playing on the HP within 5-10 minutes. The iPhone Podcasts app still appears to be playing. After a few moments the 'playing' podcast vanishes from 'Now Playing' and (apparently), ends up being marked as played. To get back to the podcast I have to go into Previously Played and restart it. Of course it starts from the beginning. I'll then just listen to it on my iPhone.

I have this problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a BT Hub 6 vs Apple Whatever issue. It's either this or iCloud Music Library being its usual impenetrable tangly mess. Or both.

The BT Hub 6 has been a nightmare to deal with from the beginning. Before I got a HomePod and Apple TV, it would require a full restart every time I wanted to use AirPlay to play music on my speakers via AirPort Express.

It is still a flaky setup, I restart it once every a couple of days, and it drives me mad. I am definitely buying a separate modem and router very soon.

PS: Go read the other Post's in 'Homepod pausing music', lots of us there too

Steve

I have had this since day one! Moved up nearer router , worked for one day! Reset the hp ok for a day , have had to reset again . This is bad , cannot recommend this product to anyone thinking of buying. Also the so called easy setup was a nightmare and this is problem puts me right off! Good luck this is a bad buy!!!!

I don't know. But it is so bad, I've almost quit using it. AirPlaying from a MacBook Pro (iTunes playlist). Also does the same when I AirPlay various playlists from an iPhone 6. I do not have a subscription to Apple Music (nor do I plan to).

Zilch on Apple helping. My guess is they went with subpar specs on the Broadcom chip. Audio requires very little bandwidth, so something is out-of-whack. I have an AppleTV in the same location, I have ZERO issues with it (and video has higher bandwidth requirements, they are both connected to the same router).

I’ve called Apple support multiple times and none of their suggestions work for me. I’ve also brought the HomePod to a local Apple store, but due to the random nature of the problem I couldn’t replicate the issue in store, and so the Apple genius wasn’t able to help. I ended up returning it.

I have a similar problem where the homepod pauses a track 20-50 seconds into playing it only when I request from Siri to play a song. It does this every single song it plays. In fact, this happens so much I am unable to use it to play music now at all (without airplaying) which defeats the main feature of this clearly not so smart "smart speaker". Also, creating reminders and reading text messages only works 40% of the time. The pause issue happened a week before ios 11.3 came out and has only gotten worse on 11.3. The reminders haven't worked since day one. I have reset the homepod manually (unplug and red dot method) and by removing from homekit 20 times. I even rebuilt my entire homekit from scratch (took many hours) completely redone my wifi settings, made sure my iPhone was connected to the 5ghz internet before setting the homepod up (it transfers the current wifi settings from your iPhone to it upon set up) and yet nothing has worked. My two friends who are apple techs have no idea. This product is a joke.

Yes, stops playing between songs. Just started doing this on my homepod. I'll say to play an album from Apple Music and it stops after 3 songs. Sometimes it says "ok" and doesn't even start playing anything. Unfortunately, I have no solution and am still looking. Will have to call Apple Tech Support.

Thats realIy frustrating me. I have updated my ipad to 11.3 pulic beta and the problem still appear. Ill try to get replace for the new one and give you an update.

Did the 11.4 update fix this issue for others? For me, so far, so good.

Thanks ADN for putting this out there. Still having this problem. I have essentially just unplugged my Homepod, because this is so frustrating. Although I didn't experience the iPhone 4 launch, this is the most disrupting software problem I've had from an Apple product. The device is unusable in this state...please, send an update soon to solve this problem.