{"id":40037,"date":"2023-07-12T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40037"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:58:37","slug":"how-do-you-request-music-using-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/12\/how-do-you-request-music-using-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Request Music Using Siri?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2023\/07\/10\/how-do-you-request-music-using-siri\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2023\/07\/10\/how-do-you-request-music-using-siri\/\"><p>Usually, I like to offer solutions in TidBITS articles, but when it comes to the black box of controlling Apple Music using Siri, I have no sense that my approach is ideal. So I&rsquo;m going to describe my frustrations, and I hope those of you who have different approaches that work well for you will chime in with suggestions.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartenlight.com\/siri-apple-music-voice-commands\/\">best roundup<\/a> I&rsquo;ve found is at Smartenlight, though it&rsquo;s still not entirely satisfying. The article is from December 2019, and quite a few of the commands didn&rsquo;t work or worked sporadically for me. Your mileage may vary.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>With voice commands directed to a HomePod, though, I have to figure out what I want to listen to without any visual reminders that might trigger a positive&mdash;or negative&mdash;response, and I&rsquo;m not happy with how well I&rsquo;m doing that. I find that I listen to a relatively small subset of music simply due to the limited details I can bring to mind at any given time. Of course, I could pull out my iPhone and scroll through the Music app whenever I wanted to play music&mdash;and I do that occasionally, but it&rsquo;s too much work most of the time.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>But given that Apple doesn&rsquo;t promote how it&rsquo;s using machine learning to play the best music for you at any given moment, I suspect that it&rsquo;s nowhere near what the company has done with computational photography and other ML-driven photography features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be nice if HomePod supported Genius playlists. It doesn&rsquo;t even support my regular playlists. Aside from general reliability issues, the main problems I have with Siri are that many music commands that work on my iPhone <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/homepod-late-adopter\/\">don&rsquo;t work on HomePod<\/a> and that it can&rsquo;t answer questions about which music is available in my library. So I pretty much always request music from <a href=\"http:\/\/appaddy.wixsite.com\/marvis\">Marvis<\/a> on my phone.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/homepod-late-adopter\/\">HomePod Late Adopter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/09\/apple-music-classical-pre-order\/\">Apple Music Classical Pre-Order<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/ios-music-player-showcase-2022\/\">iOS Music Player Showcase, 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Usually, I like to offer solutions in TidBITS articles, but when it comes to the black box of controlling Apple Music using Siri, I have no sense that my approach is ideal. So I&rsquo;m going to describe my frustrations, and I hope those of you who have different approaches that work well for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-07-12T19:58:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"f71cc66e-7942-44f9-b66e-e699ef0b72bc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-12T19:58:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9xzGbnlCRPm2buaZ7wtyvA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1584,2429,157,247],"class_list":["post-40037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-homepod","tag-marvis","tag-music","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40039,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037\/revisions\/40039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}