Apple Home Pod

[richardfinegold]

I bought one of these a few weeks ago, and strictly as a speaker, it’s very impressive. It was replacing a Bluesound speaker in our kitchen that had died, that cost twice as much as The Apple to replace and was butt ugly to boot. The Apple blows the Bluesound away sonically, and you get Siri, with all of her foibles, as a bonus

[richardfinegold]

I noticed something interesting yesterday. The Home Pod which sits in our kitchen doesn't do WiFi but instead does AirPlay. In the room next to it I have an Apple TV, and after setting our favorite Internet Radio Station on the ATV we sync it to the Home Pod.
Yesterday as I was searching for a movie in the ATV and scanned past the Music Tab, I noticed that it contained many of the albums that I had burned into my NAS over the past several days. Interestingly on the discs that I had scanned using iTunes and not the ones using
dbPowerAmp were listed. Apple really does try to keep you in their world.
The Home Pod will also play songs if you ask Siri to find it for you, although you might have to repeat the request a few times for her to get it right. Siri is monogamous, however; first I have to disconnect her from the ATV in the ATV settings in order for her to do this. From the one time I saw Amazon's Alexa being used, I don't recall her being so discriminating about her dates.

[Dave2002]

I bought one of these a few weeks ago, and strictly as a speaker, it’s very impressive. It was replacing a Bluesound speaker in our kitchen that had died, that cost twice as much as The Apple to replace and was butt ugly to boot. The Apple blows the Bluesound away sonically, and you get Siri, with all of her foibles, as a bonus

Our kitchen is still alive! No - I jest - it never was, so couldn’t have died.