Homepod stops playing — not a connectivity issue

I have the same issue. I’ve had the HomePod for two days. I even asked Siri why she stopped playing music and she will not answer me. This is a huge issue and Apple needs to get back to us with a resolution. Question! Why does my HomePod stop playing music randomly?!

We are having a big bonfire this weekend, early celebration for the graduating seniors. I may just throw the HomePod into the fire. Of course, all the neighborhood kids will get out their iPhones and video record it. Last year, I burned up a Kindle®. They all went nuts. The kid from across the street recorded it, put it on YouTube, and made over $50. I demanded that he split the earnings with me, but he's having none of that. But this time will be different, I'll make him sign a statement if he comes over and I end up burning up the HomePod. Maybe he will make $700.

Mine does both (as you have described), but mostly stops completely. The little AirPlay icon in iTunes often (but not always) turns orange. I'm sure Apple knows of the problem -- it's likely connected to the reason we do not have AirPlay 2 yet. Bonfire is on for tonight.

I have the exact opposite problem! Siri voice voice requests plays music without interruption. But AirPlay is a disaster.

Fascinating that you have this issue.

I have done similar, resetting AirPod many times, resetting network.

What router do you have?

iboy13765 wrote:

"... and yet nothing has worked. My two friends who are apple techs have no idea. This product is a joke. "

Yes, this product is so unlike Apple, it is hard to believe. And there's no way they can release AirPlay 2 until they fully understand and address these issues regarding AirPlay 1.

Yep I would agree on that, this is what i wrote on the other tread 'HomePod pausing'

"Its very strange as to why all this happens. Me, well i don't think Apple did any sort of 'Out of the Box' testing, it was all in house. By that I mean, if it were me ( A big wig at Apple on the HomePod project ) I would have used people ( like us ) as testers, and not just in the US, all around the world , say 20 in the US, 10 in the UK, 10 in OZ, 20 in South America etc etc with the simple instructions to just set it up and use it how you would ( be that via the cloud, iTunes on your Computer ( Airplay ), iPhone, iPad or what ever. Give it to the people who are actually going to purchase it and use it."

I don't think Apple did that, it was all in 'House' which is false and gives you the wrong data feed back.

Steve

Mine appears to be resolved now. I stream SiriusXM from my iPhone X to my HomePod all day without it stopping. All my podcasts seem to be in sync now as well, i.e. I can use Siri to play podcast directly on the HomePod, (rather then airplay via my iPhone), and it will sync what has and has not been played with my iPhone. Presumably doing that through iCloud.

Thanks for the suggestion, tried it but still the same problem despite reserving an IP address to the MAC address for the HomePod in the router - just wondering if there’s a bad batch of these homepods in circulation.

Same here, it just stops the music. Not really paid attention to it being in between songs, I’ll just suddenly realize there’s no music. Playing from iPhone 7 , latest software.

I refuse to keep unplugging it or resetting, it just buggars something else up.

There can be good days where it doesnt and you're fooled into thinking the last thing you tried, fixed it.

It’s embarassing when people are over. They need to fix it.

Had the wifi router checked as well.

Another thing I dont like is if i manually pause it (done any way) and go back to it and touch the top the top of the speaker to resume playback, it plays the last song I asked it to play over a week ago, not my playlist I was on. I’m forever stuck with a song a friend asked to hear that I personally don’t like.

The thing is nfested with bugs,

Hi Joe. Im having the same problem. the music stop after a song or so. What happen with your homepod now?

Still the same problems. I am hoping software 11.3 will resolve this.

Same issue here, HomePod randomly stops playing, it's been doing it since day one (when they came out) AirPlaying from a MacBookPro.

Mee too. Got it a few days ago and it keeps pausing randomly after the end of a song or at the beginning of the next song in a playlist. Turning shuffle on doesn’t help either.

I have the same problem. I wonder if apple has acknowledged it as a universal homepod problem or are a few of the units just malfunctioning.

Here's the "orange" AirPlay:

And then when you click on it: