ItGoogle home mini / nest

iPad

I set up a free account to use with my home mini to play music, I set this up on my iPad so it’s all been working fine for a couple of weeks or so. I understand that with a free account you can’t actually play a play list, but music from Spotify based on your playlists content.

Yesterday I asked google to play a playlist it just plays random music which could possibly be associated in a loose sense with the playlist or of a similar genre.

I have tried unlinking and delinking my account, disabling auto play, which you can’t do on a home mini but can on an iPad.

I have made sure all playlists have over 12 or 15 songs.

I have tried renaming playlists to something unique.

I have re set WiFi, and set up as a new device / home

Still it is not working I still get the associated songs playing, some of which appear in suggestion from other playlists, but if I’d wanted it in the playlist I’d have put it in!

I have discovered that if I use my iPad to to play a playlist it works correctly, and then if I use my iPad to stream a playlist to the home mini device it also works perfectly!

But if I ask google home mini to play the same playlist it plays the random similar songs list even though it says it is playing music based on my playlist.

Can anyone explain why this is happening all of a sudden and if there is a fix for it?

Thank you