Music / Speaker Showdown!

Alright MPU, today is the day!

I am in the process of swapping out my Echo Dots in the house for HomePod Mini’s

Tasks

  1. Test out the integration and usage, etc
  2. Test out the music and spoken audio.

I am a big Spotify user, I never got into Apple Music for some reason. I think it was the horror stories that I read over the years of people losing their music libraries when doing the whole iTunes Match thing. On top of that, my own personal mp3 collection is stored on my Synology that I stream whenever I want.

Has anything changed in the Apple Music experience that should make me re-consider?
Does anyone have HomePod (or Mini) and uses Spotify or Apple Music?

Let me know your thoughts and use cases!

I believe the HomePod can only stream from Apple Music directly, but will happily airplay from Spotify.

From a Synology point of view, DS Audio will play to the HomePod, again via AirPlay (currently say streaming from the NAS to the HomePod via DS Audio on my iPad until I manage to fix my iTunes Match issues)