Hey Siri Never Play This Song Again

In this postal service, we will look into all the Siri music commands, which are not only express to your HomePod but volition (mostly) also work with your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods and Mac. Nosotros will cover basic volume and playback commands, besides as tips and tricks on how to play and manage your favorite music. Nosotros'll command radio stations, podcasts, listen to ambient sounds, set sleep timers and concluding, but not least, we will create our ain personal music commands.

A Large Thank you goes to all of you who take the time and share their Siri Music experiences, questions and answers in our discussion section! Nosotros are continuously updating this post based on your feedback.

Estimated reading fourth dimension: xix minutes

Table of contents

• Siri's Music Services
• How to control Siri'southward Volume
• How to control Siri's Playback
• How to navigate the Apple Music Database
  • How to play Music by Championship/Album/Artist
  • How to play Music by Genre
  • How to play Music by Activity and Mood
  • How to combine Moods, Activities and Genres in Music Commands
  • How to play New Music
  • How to play Popular/Regional Music
  • How to play something you rarely hear
  • How to play Similar Music
  • How to play Favorites and like/dislike Songs
  • How to Play Songs past Lyrics
• How to control your Music Library and Playlists
• How to listen to Radio Stations
• How to get Music Information
• How to play Ambient Sounds
• How to set a Sleep Timer
• How to Manage and Listen To Podcasts
• How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker
• How to Create Your Own Music Commands
  • Create Personal Music Commands with HomeKit
  • Create Personal Music Commands with ShortCuts
  • What are Siri Shortcuts?
  • Apple's Shortcuts App
  • Our Personal Music Control: "Hey Siri, Relax!" (for Apple Music and Spotify)
  • Siri Shortcut Inspirations
• Decision

Siri'southward Music Services

Nosotros were used to "Apple Music only" on our Apple devices, but this has finally changed. Here's an overview of all the music services supported on our Apple devices.

Apple Music is Apple'due south native and therefore most extensive music service, with over 60 million songs. Here we can look into all music commands, which Siri understands.

Spotify has more than 50 million songs, and Siri supports the complimentary, every bit well as the premium subscription. We just need to add together "… on Spotify" to the music commands listed below. Spotify works with Siri on iOS and CarPlay, and with the new Spotify app also on Apple Idiot box. On our HomePods, we can only play Spotify through AirPlay, which means we need to initiate the request from our iPhone and add "… on HomePod" to our voice commands. Yes, Spotify voice commands tin get as strange as: "Hey Siri, play … on Spotify on HomePod". However, since Spotify supports Siri shortcuts, we can customize our music commands and even initiate Spotify playback from the HomePod.

With iOS 13, Apple tree has included 100,000 radio stations from TuneIn, radio.com and iHeartRadio.

How to control Siri'southward Volume

We have quite some options when it comes to decision-making the music volume unless we are listening on Apple Television, where we have to use the remote anyway. The same goes for the Apple Watch, where we can use the crown to change the volume more efficiently.

Following commands will change the volume past x% increments:

• Hey Siri, (alter/brand/turn the) book upwardly/down
• Hey Siri, (arrive) softer/louder
• Hey Siri, lower/raise (the) volume
• Hey Siri, increase/subtract (the) volume

If you forget to indicate whether information technology should be softer or louder, Siri volition check back and enquire you lot.

Here's another way to set the volume, this fourth dimension to a specific percentage:

• Hey Siri, (set/plough the volume to) l percentage.
• Hey Siri, thirty percent Note, that'southward the snappy command

And, if you are brave, you tin try:

• Hey Siri, set the volume to MAX! =)

How to command Siri's Playback

Yous can resume and stop playback by:

• Hey Siri, play/resume (music)
• Hey Siri, cease/pause

But y'all can also outset your personal station by saying:

• Hey Siri, play something

To navigate within an anthology or playlist you can say:

• Hey Siri, next/previous (song/track/title/tune)
• Hey Siri, skip (this song)

Note, "previous" volition play a song from the get-go, in instance yous are listening to a Apple tree station.

To navigate within a song, you can try:

• Hey Siri, play (this song) from (the) beginning
• Hey Siri, restart (this vocal)
• Hey Siri, jump/skip dorsum/forward (x seconds/minute(s))

For shuffling and repeating we accept the following commands:

• Hey Siri, repeat (this album/playlist/track)
• Hey Siri, (plough) repeat (on/off)
• Hey Siri, (plough) shuffle (on/off)

Note, we cannot shuffle or repeat songs on radio stations!

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How to navigate the Apple Music Database

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How to play Music by Title/Anthology/Creative person

If y'all know what you want to hear, you can say:

• Hey Siri, play (the vocal/runway/title/tune) <championship>
• Hey Siri, play (the album/record) <anthology>
• Hey Siri, play (music by) <artist>
• Hey Siri, play (the song/rail/championship/tune) <championship> past <artist>
• Hey Siri, play (the anthology/record) <album> by <artist>

Please annotation, since Siri searches too for movies on Apple TV, make certain you add "music" or "vocal" to your voice command, in case she comes back with moving picture suggestions too often.

How to play Music past Genre

The list of genres and sub-genres is huge. Luckily, we constitute it well hidden in the iTunes chapter documentation (scroll downwardly to 34 Music). We are only including the primary genres here, if you are looking for more than specific sub-categories, check out the link above.

• Hey Siri, play <genre> music

The primary genres are:

• Dejection
• One-act
• Children'due south Music
• Classic
• State
• Electronic
• Holiday
• Opera
• Singer/Songwriter
• Jazz
• Latin
• New Age
• Pop
• R&B/Soul
• Soundtrack
• Trip the light fantastic
• Hip-Hop
• World
• Alternative
• Stone
• Christian/Gospel
• Vocal
• Reggae
• Easy Listening

How to play Music by Activity and Mood

Apple Music has a couple of not and so obvious activities and moods, which you tin use to specify what to play:

• Hey Siri play (some) music for <activeness>
• Hey Siri play <mood> music

Hither is a list of somemoods nosotros have tested, we've added the station they volition trigger:

• Peaceful / Meditation / Meditate / Bedtime / Sleeping -> station Meditation
• Happy / Cheerful / Whimsical -> station Happy Music
• Wild / Political party / Fun -> station Partying
• Stimulating / Exciting / Motivate(d) / Waking Upward / Upbeat -> station Motivated Music
• Angry -> station Angry music
• Calm / Sorry / Blue / Somber -> station sad music
• Intimate / Erotic / Baby Making -> station Getting information technology on
• Mellow / Chill / Soothing -> station chill music
• Beloved / Passion / Tender / Romance / Romantic -> station Romantic and Beloved Music

Hither we become with some activities, which we've tested (musically =):

• Seperate / Split(ing) / Break(ing) Up -> station Breaking Up
• Do / Cardio / Piece of work(ing) Out -> station Working Out
• Dinner Party / Cooking / Entertaining -> station Entertaining
• Trip the light fantastic / Dancing -> station Dance
• Focus(ing) / Report(ing) / Concentrate / Concentration -> station Focusing
• Family unit Time / Safe for Kids -> station Family unit Time
• Family unit / Kids -> station Disney

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How to combine Moods, Activities and Genres in Music Commands

Now comes the interesting part: We can combine moods, genres, and activities.

• Angry Workout -> station aroused music for working out
• Romantic Dinner Party -> station romantic and love music for entertaining
• Aroused Music to Focus -> station angry music for focusing
• Break-Upwardly Funk -> station funk for breaking up
• Sad Blues -> station sad dejection
• Angry Rock -> station angry rock

In case there is no dedicated station which fits your request, Siri will autumn back to a station which fits to one of your keywords.

How to play New Music

If you want to hear some fresh tracks from your favorite artist, you lot tin say:

• Hey Siri, play the latest song(s) by <artist>
• Hey Siri, play the newest music by <artist>

How to play Pop/Regional Music

Interested in what is trending someplace, old, some genre?

• Hey Siri, play the top10/best songs from the 80s
• Hey Siri, play the top/best song from April 1, 2019
• Hey Siri, play the top10/best <genre> songs
• Hey Siri, play the best songs from <country>

Note, if you're outside of the United states, Siri might come dorsum with: "Lamentable, just I don't know the historical musical charts for your country". Bummer. In this instance, you can fall back to the playlists:

• Hey Siri, play the 80s
• Hey Siri, play I miss the 80s

How to play something you rarely hear

In example you feel like you're hearing always the aforementioned songs:

• Hey Siri, play something new
• Hey Siri, play something I take not heard

How to play Similar Music

There's this i catchy song and you want to hear more like that?

Since Genius is non available everywhere, in that location'south another corking way to listen to similar music:

• Hey Siri, make/create a radio station based on this song

Autonomously of that, you could try:

• Hey Siri, play something else by <artist>
• Hey Siri, play some old songs past <artist>
• Hey Siri, play the live version of this song

How to play Favorites and like/dislike Songs

We want to hear songs nosotros like, then we need to let Siri know what we like and what we don't like:

• Hey Siri, I like/beloved/don't like/dislike this (song)
• Hey Siri, I don't similar <genre>
• Hey Siri, don't/never play this vocal once more (Note, this one'due south a bit buggy)

And of form your personal station will play the music that yous like:

• Hey Siri, play music I like

How to Play Songs past Lyrics

If we unremarkably forget song titles, only remember some lyrics, we can detect the song with a lyrics snippet:

• Hey Siri, play the song that goes <lyrics snippet> (Notation, this feature works only in Usa)
• Hey Siri, what's the song that goes <lyrics snippet>

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How to control your Music Library and Playlists

You can control what goes into your library by proverb:

• Hey Siri, add this (album/song) to my library

And you can control what you'd like to hear from there:

• Hey Siri, play my music by <artist>
• Hey Siri, play some <genre/creative person> from my library

There's a massive library of (curated) playlists in Apple tree Music. We can access them this style:

• Hey Siri, play (a/the) playlist (from/past) <artist> (Notation, just making sure that you're however aware of the snappy commands, e.grand.: "Hey Siri, play playlist Elvis")

Siri cannot create playlists, for this we still need the app, only she tin, of course, fill and play your playlists:

• Hey Siri, play/shuffle my <playlist> (playlist)
• Hey Siri, add this song to my <playlist> playlist (Note, does not work on a Mac)

And, just in instance you lot experience in the mood to tell her what should come up next:

• Hey Siri, after this song, play <title>/ some <creative person>

How to listen to Radio Stations

Listening to Apple Music radio stations is as like shooting fish in a barrel as proverb:

• Hey Siri, play <radiostation> (radio)

Since iOS thirteen Apple has included "Live Radio" with 100,000 radio stations from TuneIn, radio.com and iHeartRadio. This includes many alive, local and global radio stations. All we demand to say:

• Hey Siri, play the radio station <radiostation>

Note, you lot cannot navigate backward in radio. "Previous" will play a vocal from the kickoff.

How to become Music Data

Siri is a knowledgeable music lover. You tin ask her many questions related to music:

• Hey Siri, who sings this?
• Hey Siri, what vocal/tune/title is this?
• Hey Siri, when was this released?
• Hey Siri, tell me more than virtually this artist (Annotation, this doesn't work on Apple TV)
• Hey Siri, what was the final song called/named? (Note, doesn't work on a Mac and Apple Watch)
• Hey Siri, what'due south the proper name of the adjacent vocal? (Note, doesn't piece of work on a Mac)
• Hey Siri, what year is this vocal from?
• Hey Siri, what'due south <artist> newest anthology?
• Hey Siri, who plays the <instrument> on this (song)? (Annotation, this doesn't work on Apple tree TV)
• Hey Siri, how many songs are on this album?
• Hey Siri, what's the station? (Annotation, doesn't piece of work on a Mac)
• Hey Siri, what was the top vocal in <yr>?
• Hey Siri, what's the vocal that goes <lyrics snippet>

Watching a motion-picture show and like the song?

• Hey Siri, mind to this song
• Hey Siri, Shazam this

After that, just say:

• Hey Siri, play this song

and you will find the song in your music app. Make sure to like it or add it to your library/playlist!

How to play Ambient Sounds

Upwardly to now, we could only play ambient or nature sounds from Apple Music, but since iOS 13.2.i, our HomePods natively support following ambient sounds:

• Fireplace sounds
• White Noise
• Stream sounds
• Nighttime sounds
• Rain sounds
• Ocean Waves sounds
• Forest sounds

To play whatsoever ambient sound, we just demand to say:

• Hey Siri, play ambient sounds

To play a specific sound, nosotros need to say

• Hey Siri, play the sound of <ambient audio>
• Hey Siri, play <ambience sound> from ambience sounds

How to gear up a Slumber Timer

To make certain, our skillful night playlist or our ambient sound, fades out on our HomePod subsequently a period of fourth dimension (when we are comatose), we can say:

• Hey Siri, gear up a slumber timer

She'll come back with: "For how long?" and we can specify the fourth dimension:

• For x hours (y minutes (and z seconds))

Siri will ostend: "Ok, I'll cease playing in <time>".
We can also set a sleep timer with merely i request:

• Hey Siri, set a sleep timer for thirty minutes
• Hey Siri, set a 30 minute sleep timer

How to Manage and Listen To Podcasts

For podcasts yous have following additional commands:

• Hey Siri, play the <podcast> podcast
• Hey Siri, subscribe to this podcast (Notation, doesn't work on a Mac)
• Hey Siri, play it 1 and a half times / twice as fast / one-half speed / normal speed (Note, this doesn't work on Apple Tv set and Mac)
• Hey Siri, play the starting time episode of <podcasts> (Notation, doesn't work on a Mac)
• Hey Siri, play the newest episode of <podcast> (Annotation, doesn't work on a Mac)
• Hey Siri, play my newest podcasts
• Hey Siri, what podcast is this?
• Hey Siri, subscribe to <podcast> (Note, doesn't work on a Mac)

How to Control Music Playback on another Speaker

If nosotros just came dwelling and want to continue listening to our music, podcast or even our telephone phone call on our HomePod, we just demand to hold our iPhone or iPad next to the HomePod (iOS 13.2.1) and whatever we're listening to continues on HomePod. The same goes for leaving home and transferring audio playback from the HomePod to our iPhone, nosotros simply need to concord it side by side to HomePod, and there nosotros get.

Through AirPlay all our HomePods, AppleTVs and compatible AirPlay 3rd political party speakers can communicate with each other:

• Hey Siri, play <music> in <room> / on <device name>
• Hey Siri, pause/resume in <room> / on <device name>
• Hey Siri, transfer (the music) to <room> / <device proper noun>
• Hey Siri, play <music> everywhere

How to Create Your Ain Music Commands

Nosotros accept looked into the predefined music commands, but what well-nigh creating our ain? Since iOS thirteen.iii we take a couple of options.

Here's a quick overview of the Shortcuts and the Home app, explained by Siri (1 minute snippet from our Siri'southward HomeKit Scenes and Shortcuts: Immersive Storytelling How-To cartoon). Yous tin can suspension the clip at around 2:34, we'll become later to the examples:

Create Personal Music Commands with HomeKit

We can now command our HomePods and AppleTVs through HomeKit and choose what to play from Apple Music or our library. Lookout man Siri creating a HomeKit scene with audio – "Hey Siri, at the embankment" (1 infinitesimal snippet from our Siri'due south HomeKit Scenes and Shortcuts: Immersive Storytelling How-To cartoon). You can pause the clip at around 4:20, we'll become afterwards to the other examples:

Please note, the HomeKit selection is bachelor in the Home app, as well as in the Shortcuts app!

Create Personal Music Commands with ShortCuts

Or, we tin can create Shortcuts and use the "Play Music" action (rather than the "Control Abode" action, which utilizes HomeKit) to choose what to play from Apple Music or our library.

Lookout Siri creating a Shortcut with ambient sounds – "Hey Siri, deep blue ocean" (2 minute snippet from our Siri's HomeKit Scenes and Shortcuts: Immersive Storytelling How-To drawing):

If you are completely new to Siri Shortcuts and HomeKit, you might bask this overview: Minority Report: A Siri, HomeKit, Home App and Shortcuts Overview. This mail service links to many of our Shortcut examples in this chapter: How to create a Shortcut).

In this music postal service we volition focus on Shortcuts, as they volition also play music from our iPhones/iPads/AirPods, every bit well as on a HomePod, when nosotros ask Siri from there. And, Shortcuts are the only way to personalize our Spotify commands.

What are Siri Shortcuts?

Let's have Siri herself explicate Siri Shortcuts (from our AI-News Special – 4 minute cartoon):

To summarize: Shortcuts are an automagical feature which silently learns from you in the background and suggests useful shortcuts. Applications (like Spotify!) can donate Shortcuts to Siri, and then you can jump directly to an app and even activate some deportment, all with a vocalization command which you can define yourself. And terminal but non least, there is Apple'due south Shortcuts app and this is what we will utilise.

Apple tree'south Shortcuts App

There are many Apple Music related Shortcuts in the gallery.

No need to download the Shortcuts app, since iOS 13 it's preinstalled on our iPhones and iPads. You volition see some colored boxes, your shortcuts, in your Shortcuts "library". When yous tap on the lesser right "gallery", you can scan some 800 shortcuts and download them to your library. Since we are music fans, check out the "Shortcuts for Apple Music", yous might find some interesting shortcuts there.

Borer one of the colored boxes in your library executes the shortcut. Tapping the 3 little dots opens the configuration page. Scrolling through the listing of options when creating an action, gives us now a much tidier view than in iOS 12: We find the latest Siri Suggestions and categories like Apps, Favorites, Scripting, Media, Location, Documents, Sharing and Web.

Let'south create a super piece of cake, snappy Shortcut to listen to our favorite music (and fix the correct light scene).

Our Personal Music Control: "Hey Siri, Relax!" (for Apple tree Music and Spotify)

When we say "Hey Siri, relax!", Siri will currently come up back with some random funny response, but she volition not do anything useful. We will at present override this behavior with our very own shortcut.

"Hey Siri, relax" with Apple tree Music

1. For Apple tree Music, open up your Music app and beginning your favorite relax playlist  (nosotros are using here an Apple tree-curated, regularly updated playlist, like "Audio-visual Chill" for instance).
   For Spotify, start your playlist with a voice command, e.thou.: "Hey Siri, play Indie Audio-visual Chill on Spotify"
2. At present open your Shortcuts app and click the "+" (pinnacle correct) to create a new Shortcut
3. Tap on "Add Action" and Siri will come upward with her Shortcut suggestions
4. At the top of the list, you will discover Apple's "Play Music" suggestions and your Apple Music playlist.
   For Spotify scroll downward a flake to find your, e.grand. "Play Indie Acoustic Arctic" next to a Spotify icon.
   (You meet, nosotros launched our playlist once and now information technology appears every bit Siri Suggestion in our Shortcuts app =) Only tap on it!
5. We have added our first action. Now, the playlist will ever start from the beginning. For Apple tree Music, we tin can brand certain to always hear something new, by tapping on "testify more" in the "Play Acoustic Chill" activeness, and define shuffle and whether the songs should repeat.
6. Since we are into smart habitation besides, permit'southward add a HomeKit scene. If you don't intendance most smart home, you can just skip this part and continue at pt. 9
7. Type "Home" into the search bar, and you lot will find the "Command Dwelling" action. Tap on it.
8. Tap on Scenes and Accessories to ascertain the HomeKit scene and pick yours from the listing (e.k. living room relax)
9. Well-nigh done! Tap on "Adjacent" (height right) or on the 3 little dots (as well top right)
10. Let's give this shortcut a name, e.1000. 'Relax'
11. Tap "Done" in the upper right corner! Close the app and we are set up!

"Hey Siri, relax" with Spotify

At present, we just demand to say "Hey Siri, relax!" and instead of some funny response, she will play our favorite relax playlist (and set the proper lite scene). How cool is that?

Delight note, these Shortcuts will run on your HomePod, AppleWatch, etc. but they will be executed on the iOS device.

Another notation, in case y'all are wondering what the Energize, Concentrate, Read, Relax, etc. low-cal scenes are: these are the default Philips Hue calorie-free recipes. Nosotros could have created the shortcuts the same way, using the Philips Hue app Siri Shortcuts. It's just that HomeKit is a more than generic way, which tin can also integrate lights from other manufacturers, e.g. Nanoleaf.

Siri Shortcut Inspirations

There are many Shortcut examples throughout our Siri posts:

• Theeasiest case "Hey Siri, help me to tune my guitar", where we just play a guitar tuning playlist or launch a tuner app, with a custom command: Tuning with a Music Playlist and Unproblematic Siri Shortcuts
• Our very uncomplicated2-action instance of a Shortcut which controls Apple tree Music or Spotify and a HomeKit scene from above: Our own Shortcut: Hey Siri, Relax!
• Another easytwo-action example where nosotros beginning create an app shortcut in the Dyson Link App to set the dark mode on our Dyson Pure Absurd. Nosotros volition and then edit this shortcut in the Shortcuts app to additionally play lullabies: Dyson Pure Cool Vocalisation control with Siri
• The super easy3-action example (iOS 13) where Siri creates a Shortcut with ambient sounds – "Hey Siri, deep blue ocean" (2 minute snippet from our Siri'south HomeKit Scenes and Shortcuts: Immersive Storytelling How-To drawing)
• A3-activity example (iOS 12) which sets a light scene, plays dinner music and additionally sends a "Dinner is prepare" message to the family, can exist found in our Siri and Philips Hue mail: Creating Siri Shortcuts in the Apple Shortcuts App.
• It takes effectually 17 actions, just you tin can create your personal "Guess the Creative person" and "Name that Tune" Music Quiz Shortcut. It's not just any music quiz, information technology's a very personal music quiz, as information technology's powered past your personal music library and listening history. Check our "Hey Siri, Start my Music Quiz" – Create your own Music Game with Shortcuts (or Siri'southward How-To Cartoon below).

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Determination

Siri Shortcuts are incredibly flexible and the Shortcuts app has received a massive update with iOS 13. Hopefully, we will see more apps, donating Siri some shortcuts, just like Spotify recently. Opening upwards to Spotify and many radio services is a pleasant surprise from a company like Apple.

New features like playing ambient sounds, sleep timer support, multi-vocalization recognition for music personalization, and decision-making playback on other speakers are finally available. The music "handoff" feature from iOS to a HomePod and vice versa is unique and an excellent user experience. And, many – unfortunately not all – Siri inconsistencies betwixt different Apple devices take been fixed since iOS 12.

We hope you've enjoyed this extensive listing of Siri music commands. Maybe it helps yous likewise, to autumn in love with music (again), if you have non already!

If y'all have whatsoever questions or found some new music commands, please share them with us in the comment section below! We'll continue this post updated with your feedback!

Happy Music with Siri!

P.South. For more Siri posts, please come across Apple Siri.

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