Apple’s new HomePod savvy speaker is planned principally for Apple gadgets, and it’s vigorously attached to the Apple biological system. Locally, you can just stream music on the HomePod through an Apple Music membership, iTunes buys, or iTunes Match content transferred to iCloud Music Library.
It may seem like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place on the off chance that you buy in to an outsider music benefit like Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Prime Music, Google Play Music, Tidal, or another alternative, yet it’s certainly feasible – you can at present play content from these administrations to HomePod, you’ll simply need to utilize AirPlay to do it.
With most music applications, you can start up a melody and after that pick a gadget to play to appropriate from inside the application. These guidelines will be particular to Spotify.
- Open Spotify and choose a track to play.
- On the main screen that shows song details, tap on “Devices Available.”
- Choose “More Devices.”
- Tap on the icon for your HomePod, and music will be streamed directly to it.
Here’s an alternative method that works with Spotify and all other music apps:
- Start a song in Spotify or another app
- Open the Control Center on the iPhone or iPad.
- 3D Touch or long press on the music widget.
- Tap on the AirPlay icon in the upper right side of the widget.
- Select the HomePod icon.
It will take a couple of moments for the iPhone or iPad to associate with HomePod, yet once it’s associated, your music will be gushed to HomePod from your iPhone.
You for the most part require an Apple gadget to stream music to the HomePod on the grounds that it requires AirPlay usefulness, however some HTC telephones bolster AirPlay, and there are informal outsider Android applications that work with AirPlay, so these gadgets may likewise work with the HomePod. You can’t, be that as it may, interface gadgets to the HomePod over a Bluetooth association.
When gushing music to HomePod through AirPlay, you’re not going to have full Siri bolster, but rather you can utilize Siri to play/delay music, change the volume, and change music tracks.
