How do I get Siri to play Bruce Springsteen The River (song) not the album

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For a long time when I told my iPhone Siri “Play Bruce Springsteen The River” it tried to play it in overcast.

Unsuccessfully.

So is stopped trying that.

Today I said the same to one of my HomePod minis.

It played the album.

I didn’t want the album.

So I said, “Hey Siri, play Bruce Springsteen’s The River song”

And another HomePod mini heard me and started playing the album.

I don’t find this amusing!

Any advice?

(I know I can play it manually tapping 20 times on my phone. I don’t think AI is going to fix this.)

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“Play the song The River by Bruce Springsteen.” Great song.

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I come from down in the valley where, Mr @cornchip, this actually worked!

Mary says thank you.

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Anyone using the new Siri in iOS 27 know if Siri is better with these kind of requests?

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What could be better than the way cornchip stated it? Pretty straight forward request.

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This is one of those weird situations where the answer is now obvious, but wasn’t obvious (to me, at least) for many years!

It’s be nice if the new Siri was clever enough to figure out that I meant the song that I’ve listened to 1,000 times, not the album I’ve never listened to.

The simple user shouldn’t have to learn a syntax for a common edge case.

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Agreed its understanding should be more flexible, and hopefully new Siri would also be able to correct if you followed up with, “I meant the song.”