Customers can now stream Apple Music on Google Nest speakers and Google Assistant-enabled ones in five additional countries, including Canada and Australia.
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New countries where Apple Music on Google Nest is available
A support document on theApple websiteclarifies that Apple Music streaming is now available on Google Assistant-enabled devices in the following five additional countries:
If you own a Google Nest speaker like (Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max) or other Assistant-enabled smart speakers and displays, you can now invoke Google Assistant to request a song from Apple Music. This integration supports other features, like searching and playing songs, albums and playlists with your voice. You can even use Google Assistant to play music by genre, mood or activity.
How to set up Apple Music on Nest speakers
A post on the officialGoogle Canada blogexplains that you must link your Apple Music account in Google’s Home app for this integration to work.
Now you can queue up playlist, artist, or any of the Apple Music Radio stations to play over your connected Google Nest or Assistant device.
But wouldn’t it be great if you could omit the “on Apple Music” part from your voice requests? Well, you can if you change the default music service on your Google device.
How to set Apple Music as Google Nest’s default music service
You must manually set Apple Music as the default music service in Google Home.
Apple Music launched integration on Google Nestin December 2020, with the initial rollout limited to the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.
