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[vtstarck]

Does anyone have a fix for my currently useless HomePod minis? Running 16.4.1, every request to play a song is met with “one sec” and then “I couldn’t find <song> in your Apple Music library.”

It’s been happening for weeks. Factory resets aren’t working.

They are doing a wonderful job holding down any loose papers I have.

 

[Itinj24]

Does anyone have a fix for my currently useless HomePod minis? Running 16.4.1, every request to play a song is met with “one sec” and then “I couldn’t find <song> in your Apple Music library.”

It’s been happening for weeks. Factory resets aren’t working.

They are doing a wonderful job holding down any loose papers I have.

The HomePods themselves are perfectly fine. It’s the crappy dog spit software Apple injects into them that breaks them. If you’re out of the return window, you can either sell them or wait for Apple to code a sustainable software (which will eventually break in future updates anyway).

Sorry if I sound jaded but this has been going on for some time now. We’re all at the mercy of Apple’s HomePodOS team.

If you haven’t already, try rebooting your network.

 

[sorgo †]

Does anyone have a fix for my currently useless HomePod minis? Running 16.4.1, every request to play a song is met with “one sec” and then “I couldn’t find <song> in your Apple Music library.”

It’s been happening for weeks. Factory resets aren’t working.

They are doing a wonderful job holding down any loose papers I have.

Mine was doing this but after deleting and re-setting-up my Home altogether it works now.

 

[sparky672]

Mine was doing this but after deleting and re-setting-up my Home altogether it works now.

Wow... starting over should never be a solution. Starting over means that something was corrupted and the OS is just too stupid to be able to get around it. There is really no excuse for this other than a lack of testing.

Great job Apple!

 

[Suture]

Mine has been doing this, too. I wound up removing it, doing a factory default/reset. It worked for a little bit, but now it's starting to do this again. I can't get it to play any song or podcast that I want. It just tells me the weather.

 

[sparky672]

Mine has been doing this, too. I wound up removing it, doing a factory default/reset. It worked for a little bit, but now it's starting to do this again. I can't get it to play any song or podcast that I want. It just tells me the weather.

And there's this. Proof that starting over is not really the solution.

 

[vtstarck]

It seems 16.5 has fixed the issue for me…for now.