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gpelkofs Author

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Homepod pausing music

My Homepod has been pausing music on its own for a few days now and on one or two occasions skipped a song too. I'm not using AirPlay to control it from my phone, but just streaming playlists or albums from my Apple library directly through the Homepod.

Most of the time it just pauses a song after 1 or 2 seconds of playing and I can tell it to play again then it's fine. A few times when I told it to play after it paused by itself, it either started with a new song (when I was shuffling a playlist) or skipped a from the 3rd to the 5th track when I was playing an album.

I've had my Homepod for 3 weeks now and it was fine for the first two weeks, so this is a fairly recent development. I've tried reseting it by unplugging and plugging it back in and reseting my wifi router. It keeps happening. Any other ideas what's causing this/how to fix other than hoping a software update corrects it soon?

Posted on Mar 30, 2018 8:13 AM

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AngelDelNorte

Level 1

44 points

Posted on Mar 31, 2018 10:38 AM

> Our HomePods will pause randomly between songs if listening to a playlist

This sounds a lot like the issue I posted about at

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8285899

except that for me, it's stopped -- still in play mode -- at the beginning of the track before the last track played. The interfaces (happens on all devices) have lost sync with what's playing on the HPod, so everything grinds to a halt.

Still occurring after 11.3, of course, so back I go to the feedback place when I find the link. May our mighty quest lead to victory!

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104 replies

Apr 23, 2018 7:39 PM in response to Bruce Fisher

Yes that would be useful, Bruce. My wife and I listen all day and we are the ultimate proving ground for this so if you could let it play longer and see that would be helpfu. ~W

Jun 14, 2018 7:14 PM in response to martin10

Still happening to me, 11.4, embarrassing when friends and family are over and it happens randomly lol

Aug 6, 2018 6:23 PM in response to Vancouver22

That could be, but I have had no indication of it with our computers. Is there any way to determine if that is the problem?

Aug 7, 2018 6:25 AM in response to Vancouver22

While testing this, I turn on music on my HomePod in my bedroom and go about normal living. So far I haven't noticed exactly when the HomePod has stopped playing.

Vancouver22

Level 8

36,288 points

Aug 10, 2018 12:50 AM in response to gpelkofs

Oops I’ve akready replied to this

Oct 5, 2018 4:57 AM in response to Howard Brazee

Weird, I just told my HomePod to play one song - and it kept playing another song by that artist before I told it to be quiet.

turingtest2

Level 10

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Oct 5, 2018 5:56 AM in response to Howard Brazee

Could the song be the first track of an album with the same name? Did you explicitly say "Hey Siri, play the song X by Y"?

tt2

Oct 5, 2018 2:30 PM in response to Howard Brazee

Nope, "on repeat" didn't help.

Oct 30, 2018 5:27 PM in response to gpelkofs

Any resolution to your query? My HomePod worked fine until just recently. Purchased as soon as they came out. Just started playing 20 seconds of songs then stops.

Nov 26, 2018 7:03 PM in response to Michael_Kelly

The same thing is happening to me. If you let it go it plays for about 3 seconds then stops for about 5 to 10 minutes then it does the same thing all over again.

Jan 5, 2019 6:34 PM in response to momalle3

That’s right bro.

Jan 26, 2019 4:06 PM in response to JoDSyd

Unfortunately it does not improve when I run iTunes exclusively. So I think the problem is something else. Thanks.

Jan 26, 2019 4:07 PM in response to Vancouver22

Unfortunately I knew about that and it still did not help. Thanks.

Feb 23, 2019 6:46 PM in response to jh8cw

I gave up. I got a Bose. It’s playing great sound. And iTunes works on it. Siri is useless right now. So I’d take your HomePod back. Apple does not have this down yet. Maybe some day.

Homepod pausing music