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Music streaming service Gaana now supports hands-free streaming through voice commands on the Apple HomePod mini. The smart speaker from Apple is priced at Rs. 9,900 in India, and supports direct streaming of Apple Music as a default service, but the addition of Gaana adds a replacement streaming service and its entire library to Siri’s capabilities on the HomePod mini. Gaana features a library of over 45 million tracks across 25 languages, and largely covers music in various Indian languages.
Gaana’s service is out there in both free and paid tiers, and support for hands-free streaming on the HomePod mini works no matter whether you’re on the free or paid plan. Gadgets 360 was ready to successfully test the feature on the Apple HomePod mini on a free plan.
The service must be activated on the Gaana app on iOS first, and has got to be done on a tool which is linked to the HomePod mini using Apple’s Home app. to line up Gaana to stream on the HomePod mini, users got to attend the Settings > Connect with HomePod, then follow the on-screen instructions to finish the method .
Once complete, users can have the HomePod mini play tracks from Gaana using voice commands, like “Hey Siri, play (track name) on Gaana”. this is often a notable change, because the HomePod range earlier only supported hands-free music streaming from the company’s own Apple Music streaming service.
It is possible to stream music from other services like Spotify and Amazon Music, but this needs the utilization of a smartphone because the controller, with an AirPlay connection between the smartphone and therefore the HomePod mini.
Unlike smart speakers from Google and Amazon, the Apple HomePod and HomePod mini are fairly limited it their support for third-party services, with attention on Apple Music because the default service for hands-free streaming. And although the speaker is Bluetooth enabled, you cannot directly pair it to play music from your phone or other devices — the sole thanks to stream other services and content is thru Apple AirPlay.
However, the introduction of direct hands-free streaming of Gaana on the HomePod mini suggests that Apple might be opening up its ecosystem for the smart speaker, and other services could similarly support hands-free streaming going forward.
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