Any Music Streamed Via HomePod Won't Have Streaming Limits, As The Speakers To Support FullRoom Soon

According to Rene Ritchie's review for HomePod on iMore, which confirmed that any music streamed via HomePod doesn't count toward an Apple Music subscription device streaming limit. In other words, a subscriber with single memberships to Apple Music will be able to ask Siri to play a song on HomePod while listening to music on another iOS Devices or Mac.

We won't have to worry about the speaker taking up similar streaming limits on the Apple Music accounts, and family plans already support simultaneous streaming across multiple devices, so it should work the same for those users as well.  Additionally, HomePod does not count toward the 10 device limit placed on devices associated with an Apple ID.

That includes HomePod not counting against any Apple Music device or concurrent stream limit — set it up one or more HomePods with your iPhone or iPad, leave the house with that device, and anyone who stays or comes home can still listen to Apple Music on any or all the HomePods you've set up.

The HomePods will have another benefit for users, reported by The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, there's a toggle in a section for the speaker in the iOS Home app which will allows user to turn it off to prevent the HomePod's streams from impacting how Apple Music's algorithms recommend new music, so no music streamed via HomePod will count into the subscriber's overall taste profile.

Confirmed by Apple, HomePod will support FullRoom, a feature that will enable a pair of HomePods to automatically detect and balance each other so it creates stereo-like sound following an upcoming software update. FullRoom will be coming soon, follows that is the multi-room audio support via AirPlay 2 which will be available at a later date.

Via MacRumors, Image Credit Macworld