Oh, God! so here's what happened this morning. I said "Siri, play Album x." Siri said, "I can't find Album X on Apple Music." So I said, "Siri, play album X from my library." Siri said, "I can't find Album X on Apple music." So I said, "Siri, play Artist from my library." Siri immediately played a song from the album I'd been trying to play. So I said," Siri, play this album." Siri immediately switched to a different album. So, I thought, OK, I'll just air-play it from my phone. I started the album, and went into the control center to select the speakers where I wanted the music to play. But the Playback Destination button in the Control center seems only to be there for decoration. Tapping it brought up the list of speakers, but I was not able to select and get music to play on anything other than my phone. I was finally able to get the album to play on one of my HomePodes by holding my phone up to it and transferring, but we all know that that sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. So this action, which should have been able to be implemented with one voice command, ended up taking about fifteen minutes, and it still wasn't playin on all the speakers where I wanted it to play.
On a more general level, our music system is a combination of HomePods and Sonos speakers. In IOS 13, if I had the speakers grouped, and told Siri to adjust the volume, the volume was adjusted for the whole group. Now, it is only adjusted on the HomePod. If I want to adjust the volume on the Sonos speakers, I either have to open the Sonos app and do it there, or manually walk over and adjust it. There's just no excuse for that. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 14, 2021, at 11:54 AM, ` <herbie.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can't comment on the Braille Display, but I hae not experienced any issues > with the HomePod. > > On 2/14/2021 10:01, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: >> Does anyone else out there feel like IOS 14.4 is a serious piece of c***? >> Honestly, I hate it enough that I'm giving some consideration to just going >> back to another environment. What on earth was Apple thinking? I have >> problems with my braille display and problems with playing music in my home. >> This is the suckiest release I can remember in a long time! >> Cheers, >> Donna >> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/8f526248-0586-338d-30e9-1f9bb293f430%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/4F0DDF75-2576-42FA-898A-CA66B55ACEF2%40me.com.
