As said, there is a static and crackling sound lasting up to 5 seconds when I’m playing music from Spotify on my HomePod Mini. It comes up every couple of minutes and then music resumes playing normally. So far I had no issues, and after this emerged, I updated all softwares to latest versions and updated the Spotify app. Any ideas what to do next?
HomePod mini, 18
It WORKS!
I have been having this issue for months with my setup of 3 HomePods and 2 HomePod minis over an extended wifi across the house on different floors. A disaster scenario pretty much :D
So, I feel so stupid to promote a non-Apple platform when I am a subscriber of their Apple Music but I downloaded Qobuz yesterday and it works perfectly across the whole **** system with hi rez 192kHz Miles Davis beautifully flowing thru these amazing speakers.
I am going to keep on testing this the rest of the day but it's been now playing for 30 mins with no hiccups, hisses or crackling. Pretty much as it is suppose to work. I am so happy now.
I am using the iPhone App for this, the desktop version has not been optimised for multi speaker use although there are instructions how to get them work.
I second all of these experiences and emotions...I hesitate to listen to them any more due to all of the frustrations.
Sure enough the static started a few hours after posting that I hadn’t had any static for 4 days.
How were able to update? Are you using 18.1?
I updated (18.1), but after a few days the static is back.
I even downloaded and installed the newest iOS available on all of my HomePods, I have seven of them had no static for a day thought. Awesome It’s fixed !! Nothing but static today!!!!
It’s interesting to me that it doesn’t happen on every HomePod. I have two minis and it happens on one, but not the other.
I'm listening to the radio from an Apple Music url. The popping noise annoys me. I want to throw my homepods out the window.
Such a shame. My minis all crackling now and disconnecting and also echoing each other my large HomePods also disconnect or don’t respond to commands HomePod two and HomePod ones
Amazing Apple has yet to release a bug fix update for this AirPlay problem!
Had the same result then 1 day later the crackling was back
😂
Well at least I’m not crazy alone. C’mon Apple. Fess up and fix this.
This also has started - specifically with audio from Spotify - on one of my two original HomePods. Running iOS 18 most recent releases across the board as of 10/27/24.
Same here, it annoying
All units are already running on 18.1.
The issue does not get fixed by that update.
Static and crackling sound on HomePod Mini
