Thanks for responding. Unfortunately the issue isn’t just with Spotify but also TuneIn, Global Radio, and also happens with Google’s own curated ambient playlists. If it does play straight away from any of these platforms, it will play for a short time and stop. Could be 5 mins, could be an hour.
Playing from Spotify directly and selecting a speaker to cast to doesn’t work all the time. The connection with the speaker occurs as it makes the sound to confirm, it may play 1 second of a song then stop. Opening the Google Home App shows it understands it was trying to play from Spotify but hitting the play button will again play 1 second. The same occurs in the Spotify app too.
Switching to playing streaming radio stations from various platforms has the same outcome. Plays 1 second then stops. Oddly you can see it was trying to play whatever was current on that station as it lost the song or DJ presenter.
Google’s ambient playlist are supposed to play for 12 hours if uninterrupted however this again lasts for a few minutes at best before stopping, if I can get it to play at all. I’ve tried saying the command, or typing the command into the Google Home app with the speaker. I use the ambient playlists on the speaker in my sons nursery when he is sleeping for background noise so it’s frustrating it doesn’t even work with Google.
I frequently reboot all speakers to try to resolve but it has the same result.
- From RiKi Roe (Original Poster)
