{"id":44878,"date":"2024-09-16T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44878"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:31:30","slug":"audioos-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/audioos-18\/","title":{"rendered":"audioOS 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/09\/16\/apple-releases-homepod-software-18\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/108045\">release notes<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/09\/16\/apple-releases-homepod-software-18\/\"><p>The  HomePod  Software 18 adds the option to choose a Home Hub rather than having HomeKit select one automatically, a useful feature for people with multiple HomePods and Apple TV models.<\/p><p>There is a new SharePlay feature, allowing multiple people to share control of what&rsquo;s playing on a  HomePod  through Apple Music. To use the feature, bring an iPhone close to another  iPhone  to add songs to a playlist and control playback.<\/p><p>AirPlay now supports Spatial Audio, providing an immersive audio experience with Dolby Atmos when using  AirPlay  to stream audio from an  iPhone  or iPad to the  HomePod.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Siri control seems to be completely broken. As before, it claims to be unable to find a large number of my albums <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/homepod-late-adopter\/\">previously purchased from iTunes<\/a>. After updating to audioOS 18, it said that the first five in a row that I tried were not available. Then I tried two more recent purchases, which had worked with audioOS 17, and it confirmed that it was going to play the album I had requested but actually played a completely different album.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/15\/midnight-homepod-mini\/\">Midnight HomePod mini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/13\/audioos-17-5\/\">audioOS 17.5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes): The HomePod Software 18 adds the option to choose a Home Hub rather than having HomeKit select one automatically, a useful feature for people with multiple HomePods and Apple TV models.There is a new SharePlay feature, allowing multiple people to share control of what&rsquo;s playing on a HomePod through Apple Music. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-09-16T19:41:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"2a77172e-8845-4258-99d9-c2998409778f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-28T19:31:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKncXLohFQliZ2cKZhAl3jw","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":[2536,2655,2537,1326,189,2209,247],"class_list":["post-44878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audioos","tag-audioos-18","tag-audioos-release","tag-homekit","tag-itunesstore","tag-shareplay","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44878","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=44878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45525,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44878\/revisions\/45525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}