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IOS14 Siri and locally Stored Music

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Muddybum

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Jul 30, 2020
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Hey all,
Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this annoying bug/change in IOS14?

I am not an apple Music subscriber.
I have circa 60 Gb of purchased and locally stored music, including many playlists.
I use Siri in the car to access this music, for example...

"Hey Siri, play songs by Lissie"
or
"Hey siri, play playlist Trance favourites, shuffled"

When I do this I now get a generic message that says "Looks like Apple music can't play that".

I have apple music switched off in the music settings and I can't find anything in Siri in settings that would influence this??

Any ideas, anyone else able to test and confirm this is what they are getting?

Cheers
Simon
 
Does Siri ever worked before for locally stored music? I did not bother but might enable it for some quick check.
 
100% it worked previously, I've used it for years in the car and was extremely useful. I can't believe this is planned to be the way it is now, but making Siri work with Apple Music may be a strategy I guess. :|
 
Muddybum said:
100% it worked previously, I've used it for years in the car and was extremely useful. I can't believe this is planned to be the way it is now, but making Siri work with Apple Music may be a strategy I guess. :|
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It sounds like it is a bug.
 
I’m seeing this too. Not just with Siri though. In Car Play I can’t manually select certain songs from my library but some do work. No rhyme or reason as to the difference between what works and what doesn’t. But the songs so play if I play all songs on shuffle.
 
Muddybum said:
100% it worked previously, I've used it for years in the car and was extremely useful. I can't believe this is planned to be the way it is now, but making Siri work with Apple Music may be a strategy I guess. :|
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How? Even in iOS 13 I couldn't get this to work. It always needed to at least check with Apple Music first, even if I had the music on my device (I had disabled network access to the Music app to save data).
 
Geckotek said:
How? Even in iOS 13 I couldn't get this to work. It always needed to at least check with Apple Music first, even if I had the music on my device (I had disabled network access to the Music app to save data).
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I don't have Apple Music, I've never had Apple Music. All my music is either purchased from apple via iTunes or ripped in and synced CD(s). I've used Siri for years to play my music from my phone, either by playlist, artist or album. It's always worked. I'm not sure what happened previously if you had Apple Music?
 
Muddybum said:
I don't have Apple Music, I've never had Apple Music. All my music is either purchased from apple via iTunes or ripped in and synced CD(s). I've used Siri for years to play my music from my phone, either by playlist, artist or album. It's always worked. I'm not sure what happened previously if you had Apple Music?
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So you're suggesting that having Apple Music has disabled my ability to have Siri play offline music?
 
I’m sure it’s a bug as some of my playlists work with Siri and some don’t, regardless of if the music is Apple Music or matched or whatever. I filled a feedback but it is very annoying!
 
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Geckotek said:
So you're suggesting that having Apple Music has disabled my ability to have Siri play offline music?
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Perhaps? I don't know what's going on, I just know it's not working and it was and Apple music seems to be related. in some way. :(
 
Muddybum said:
Downloaded the latest beta release this morning and it is resolved. :)
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the latest beta is 4? and that one still has the bugs... unless the public one is different, but the public should be the same as the 4...

still an issue for me.
 
So it looks like now it will play iPhone stored music but it first says “can’t connect to Apple Music”. This is annoying. Why did they mess this up.
 
Why did they get rid of MagSafe, the text magnifying glass, the part where Siri would repeat your requests back to you when using "Hey Siri," or the "time in use since last full charge" stat in battery options?

"It just doesn't work" is becoming the new "it just works."
 
On iOS 13 I used to have to say "Play album from my library" and then it would play from my stored music. I rather my stored music as it keeps my plays etc. up to date with my iTunes/Music library. Am I understanding correct if I end up playing the Apple Music streamed version of a track or album then my library's play count etc. are not increased?
 
I have never been able to use siri to play my stored music.I have always had to use airplay.
Like the OP, I do not have Apple Music, and will not pay Apple to play music that I have purchased, on Apple devices that I have purchased.
"I didn't find blah-blah by blah-blah on apple music"
 
Weird...mine hasn't done that to me until very recently...it was safer that way before cause I didnt have to look at my phone at all when I was in the car....now I have to wait until I am parked before I can play a playlist.
 
I believe when Siri says Apple Music she actually means Music app that is included with the iPhone. I was also wondering why she says "Apple Music", maybe because "Music" is just too vague. Siri still finds locally stored music without any problems unless she is not happy with the spelling.
 
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