Playing Purchased Music on HomePod
I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantage for me for doing so over, say, buying from Amazon or directly from the artist’s site (which I often do, or buy from Bandcamp if available), is that Apple Music will stream those songs for me even if I didn’t download them locally, so they’re accessible any time I have an Apple device (or Windows!) and a network connection.
Well, almost. It doesn’t work from my HomePod, you know, the device I spent a few hundred bucks on TO PLAY MUSIC.
As I’ve explained, this basic feature mostly doesn’t work for me, either.
On Apple’s HomePod feedback page, the most recent HomePod OS version you can select is 16.5. Mine, after searching the Home app for a while, is apparently on 17.6 and is downloading 18 now.
Music is no longer in Apple’s DNA. They just don’t care.
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