Hello.
I'm trying to listen to offline music with my Smartwatch 3. I have configured Google Play Music to download music to Android Wear, but when I start the player in the watch it states "no music available....".
I have a lot of music stored in the phone which can be played from Google Play Music, but it doesn't get copied to the watch. All the tracks are stored in the microUSB, none of them have been downloaded from google.
Any idea of how to get music into the watch?
Thanks.
lm_1970 said:
Hello.
I'm trying to listen to offline music with my Smartwatch 3. I have configured Google Play Music to download music to Android Wear, but when I start the player in the watch it states "no music available....".
I have a lot of music stored in the phone which can be played from Google Play Music, but it doesn't get copied to the watch. All the tracks are stored in the microUSB, none of them have been downloaded from google.
Any idea of how to get music into the watch?
Thanks.
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Heres a guide showing how to download music via Google Play Music to Android Wear.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/10/24/how-to-store-music-on-android-wear-for-offline-playback/
On a separate issue, does anyone know how to start Google Play Music from their watch to their phone?
I was out running the other day with both watch and phone. I clicked on GPM on my SW but it said no music downloaded to watch. In the end I had to get my phone out to start GPM so I could control it. Does anyone know of any 3rd party app that would solve this?
Thanks, I had already tried it but didn't work for me. Perhaps offline music only works with downloaded music, not with music directly stored on the phone.
Regarding to your question, if I understood correctly, you want to start from your watch Play Music on the phone. If you select on your watch "Start->Play Music" it will try to play offline music, but if you select "Play Music" on the first level menú (without selecting Start), it will open Play Music on your phone and start playing the last song.
Regards.
lm_1970 said:
Thanks, I had already tried it but didn't work for me. Perhaps offline music only works with downloaded music, not with music directly stored on the phone.
Regarding to your question, if I understood correctly, you want to start from your watch Play Music on the phone. If you select on your watch "Start->Play Music" it will try to play offline music, but if you select "Play Music" on the first level menú (without selecting Start), it will open Play Music on your phone and start playing the last song.
Regards.
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Get wear mini launcher - it is perfect for this watch! swipe to the left and select the app to run
two important details before transfering music to watch:
1.- Do it with battery level 70% or more in the watch. The transfer fails with low battery.
2.- You must have in the phone less than 4Gb of downloaded music. If you have more music downloaded to your phone than the storage of the watch, the transfer will fail too.
I know. If you have a lot of music in your phone for offline playback this is a mess...
king conan said:
two important details before transfering music to watch:
1.- Do it with battery level 70% or more in the watch. The transfer fails with low battery.
2.- You must have in the phone less than 4Gb of downloaded music. If you have more music downloaded to your phone than the storage of the watch, the transfer will fail too.
I know. If you have a lot of music in your phone for offline playback this is a mess...
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Thanks, but when you say downloaded, you mean downloaded from google play music only? The music which has been directly copied and stored in the microsd/memory of the phone is never going to be transferred to the watch?
Regards.
Exactly, the music must be in the cloud first. Remember you can store 20.000 mp3 for free in Google play music.
The path that works:
Before to send to watch, the music has to be downloaded from Google music account (from the cloud, meaning music from premium service or your own mp3 previously uploaded to Google music) to your phone for offline playback.
So first upload to Google music your own mp3 (if you are not premium), then download to your phone (to internal or external memory) and when you're done select download to wear.
The transfer to watch is very very slow, but it works fine if you do it that way.
king conan said:
Exactly, the music must be in the cloud first. Remember you can store 20.000 mp3 for free in Google play music.
The path that works:
Before to send to watch, the music has to be downloaded from Google music account (from the cloud, meaning music from premium service or your own mp3 previously uploaded to Google music) to your phone for offline playback.
So first upload to Google music your own mp3 (if you are not premium), then download to your phone (to internal or external memory) and when you're done select download to wear.
The transfer to watch is very very slow, but it works fine if you do it that way.
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Understood. Thanks a lot. What a great idea from Google, upload tracks to the cloud and then download again to the phone. They really want our info in the cloud...
Yeah that's the Google "price" to use their services. 20.000 tracks to upload for free is a very decent proposal.
I can't wait for another app that will allow the simple transfer of music to the watch without having to jump through bunches of hoops. It is bound to be available very soon.
dprantl said:
I can't wait for another app that will allow the simple transfer of music to the watch without having to jump through bunches of hoops. It is bound to be available very soon.
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I found a reference in the online manual for the SW3 that Sony intends to use the walkman app for that as well, in addition to Google Music. Even better: according to the manual you should get sync per playlist. Also, it would sync via the tracks stored on the device (or so it seems). Alas, my current version of Walkman does not contain this functionality, so this reeks of a bit of a botched launch...
see here: http://support.sonymobile.com/gb/swr50/userguide/Music/
Or does this work for anyone?
There are new instructions on how you can dictate certain playlists to dowload onto the watch. When the music is being transferred, you want to go into your phone and go to downloads and uncheck the playlists that you do not want at this step. Can the USB port be used for other reasons besides being a charging port? It would really be nice to be able to just load it that way rather than bluetooth. I am hoping the walkman app gets an update to play music on the watch.
Just found out that a new version of the walkman app is being released which brings the functionality alluded to in the manual of the SW3. Didn't receive it yet on my Xperia Z1 yet, so couldn't test it.
Source: http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/11/26/walkman-app-update-8-5-a-0-6-brings-android-wear-support/
¡Yes! This one works. Tested on my Galaxy S4, it installs a "Walkman" component in the SW3. You can select in the phone which playlists you want to download to the watch, and then play them form the SW3.
Thanks.
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New Walkman app: tested on Xperia Z1 Compact (+ SW3 of course) - works fine - as advertised. Dissapointing are the long transfer times, but it is obvious BT limitation. Hope that some future AW updated will enable Wifi funcionality, which will be used then for the music transfer purpose.
lm_1970 said:
Thanks, but when you say downloaded, you mean downloaded from google play music only? The music which has been directly copied and stored in the microsd/memory of the phone is never going to be transferred to the watch?
Regards.
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I think it is not correct (in current version of Google Music). I use Google Play Music without uploading anything to the cloud (I actually disabled Play Market in settings). I just copy all my tracks to my phone internal memory, and I'm able to synchronize all my tracks with the smart watch and listen them in off-line mode. No uploading to Google.
You need patience when you copy your music from the mobile phone to your watch - it is very slow, and it's better to connect the power adaptor (it requires 70% battery, otherwise it won't transfer files).
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I installed Spotify on my Nexus today and whenever I try to listen to a song I just get a "INFO" box that is blank. I checked the settings and it's configured to sync over 3G and Wifi, but not 4G. Could that be an issue?
This is the first time using spotify so im not sure if thats a new issue or if I misconfigured
turn 4g of on your phone and try again.
it should work fine, the app is ICS compatible
Denniz0229 said:
turn 4g of on your phone and try again.
it should work fine, the app is ICS compatible
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how do I turn off 4G, and why dont they make it work on 4G =D
I would uninstall and reinstall the spotify app. I play music over 4g all the time. The syncing options are for syncing your playlists offline so they don't effect how your stream music.
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+1 for reinstalling Spotify.
That did it for me
Is it possible to do this:
Tag a song I hear in the car with Shazam
Use the option to listen in spotify
download the song to my phone over spotify
set the download directory to my google music folder so it automatically syncs with my home pc?
When you download music in spotify, you don't actually get an mp3...spotify keeps it separate so that it's available to listen to offline through spotify, but isn't available to distribute (anti-piracy measures). It's also how they assure you keep paying for spotify (you can't keep an offline song for more than 30 days without "checking in" to spotify by going online.
that sucks! Any good apps to actually pull down the mp3?
Random Reboots?
Has anyone else experienced random reboots while listening to Spotify?
I have synced a large number of playlists for offline play (over 4G), but now almost half the time I am using Spotify my GNex does a reboot at some point while listening to Spotify music.
I haven't verified if this issue deals with local (non streamed) music in general, because I only have a handful of local MP3s stored on the phone (was planning on using Spotify for most of my music needs). To be clear, this is not a streaming issue - all of the tracks and playlists I am listening to have already been synced to the phone.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Am I the only one experiencing this . . . ?
DroidHam said:
Is it possible to do this:
Tag a song I hear in the car with Shazam
Use the option to listen in spotify
download the song to my phone over spotify
set the download directory to my google music folder so it automatically syncs with my home pc?
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This whole post is kind of nonsensical because you don't have access to the Spotify music as an mp3 and there's no such concept as setting a "download directory" in Spotify. As well, Google Music on your phone won't ever upload music to sync with the cloud. The only music that gets synced/uploaded to the cloud is through the Music Manager application on your desktop computer. The Google Music app is simply for accessing / playing the music / making them available offline.
javroch said:
This whole post is kind of nonsensical because you don't have access to the Spotify music as an mp3 and there's no such concept as setting a "download directory" in Spotify. As well, Google Music on your phone won't ever upload music to sync with the cloud. The only music that gets synced/uploaded to the cloud is through the Music Manager application on your desktop computer. The Google Music app is simply for accessing / playing the music / making them available offline.
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I didnt realize you cant save the mp3s,i guess if i could i could "save" them to my dropbox account which would sync them to my own desktop. I was hoping to be able to hear a song in the car, tag it with shazam, download and have it on my home computer. Ah well
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
fatgit said:
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
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you must have battery above 75% or sync won't start!! it's the same also with othe programs like sony walkman
Same problem here. watch battery and phone battery are both plenty over 75%
Both were plugged in and at 100% for about 5 hours
I only got walkman download music to the watch. Googles software didnt work sofar.
fatgit said:
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
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For Google Play, you have to upload your music to the Google Play cloud, even if it's your own music and already on the phone, and then download it back to your phone, and then, only then, can that music can be transferred to your SW 3. The Sony Walkman application does not have this requirement. I found I could transfer a Stitcher Play Later podcast to the SW 3 using the Sony Walkman app or anything stored locally on the phone. Not the case with Google Play unless I uploaded the file to Google first.
That explains a lot and is not something im gonna use
The music is uploaded to Google Play (and then downloaded to the phone).
I'll try the Walkman route and see how that goes
It goes well, i am using that method
I have searched but i can't find the option to sync to the watch in the walkman app.
Is it supposed to work over throw?
How do you initiate the transfer?
Hey there. You can enter any playlist and you have a switch to transfer to watch.
Create a play list and make sure both the phone and watch have at least 75% battery. View the pkaylist in on the phone and there's a switch to download to the watch.
It took a while to transfer 700Mb.
Thanks. But i must be really blind. I created a playlist and can't find any switch for it. The only switch i see is under Settings ClearAudio+
Both devices are over 80% battery.
I have Walkman version 8.4.A.4.4 installed.
either i am blind or it is not supported in Germany?
//Edit: or could it be that because i unlocked and rooted my smartphone that because the license stuff gets lost it is not possible? (they are mp3 files from me)
I'm using 8.5.A.0.6
Hi folks, I'm looking to potentially buy a Sony Smartwatch 3, and my goal is to go for a run where I use Runkeeper and play Google Play Music on the device at the same time, while not having my phone on me. Has anyone tried this? Is this possible with the Sony Smartwatch 3?
Thanks..
Exactly what I do. Well I use ghostracer but you will be able to do exactly what you're saying. I love it. So nice not having to run with my phone anymore.
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Yes I routinely use Runkeeper and Google Music at the same time
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Yes I routinely use Runkeeper and Google Music at the same time
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and how did you select which music you put on the watch, because I only see the option to synch, but I can't select what to download. I want to download only a "running" playlist
hey just unwrapped my SW3 today and joined XDA.
Im currently going through the motions of getting music onto my SW3 for this purpose.
My findings so far are this. there two options.
1. Download and install the Sony walkman APK availabe on Xda...dont have link handy. This was super flakey all day for me today on my HTC one M8 converted to GPE running 5.1. but it now seems to be working and i am currently syncing my first album to SW3. this is taking its sweet time to be honest.
2. Using google play music. Now this isnt as easy as one would hope or imagine. It relies on all your music (personal stuff downloaded from where ever and stored on phone) to be uploaded to Google Play (room for 50000 songs) from a computer.
So today i have been doing this (getting payed at work mind you), copying all music to the computer from phone, then uploading to the google play servers.
Then once all music is uploaded you need to then create a playlist on the google play chrome app with the music you want on your wear. then go into the google play music app on phone, go to settings and hit refresh. this should then show the playlist you created with cloud stored music. Once your in that playlist on your phone, you should see an option to download it. Do so.
Then go to settings again on the phone and enable download to android wear option.
this should technically auto download only this playlist to your SW3...but im yet to test it cause it literally takes forever to upload the music from computer to google play. SW3 needs to be atleast 70% battery first.
Obviously, the walkman route is the much simpler option here. But only readily available to those with a Sony Xperia phone which runs the Walkman app natively.
Hopefully there is some kind of update coming with easier Wear music management.
eXPerience1983 said:
and how did you select which music you put on the watch, because I only see the option to synch, but I can't select what to download. I want to download only a "running" playlist
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The method Nedmo illustrates is correct. When you choose the option to sync to Android Wear all of the music you download to your phone will be sync'd to your wear device. I have 2 playlists - Running Pop and Running Rock, because I pin them to be downloaded to my phone and because I chose the option to sync to Wear, both playlists are on my SW3. When I run I simply play or shuffle either of the playlists. I agree I wish there was a way to choose to only sync some of my downloaded music to the Wear device, but its easy enough anyways and there's plenty of room.
I use "Wear Media" in Play store, sync and transfer, least hassle.
The way Wear handles Google Play Music is pretty brutal. I've got almost 50GB of music on my phone (SD card) and no possible way to pick and choose what gets pushed to my SW3. I have to listen to whatever is on my watch at the time when I'm running. It seems like it'll just overwrite oldest upload with newest when you grab more music.
I just purchased this watch yesterday and have been trying to download music to with no luck. I never used the watch before the update so I don't know what it was like before but I tried going through the Google music application on my phone and have the add music to wear setting checked but there's nothing on there. Then I tried selecting music straight from the watch to sync and selected a bunch of songs and now I don't know if it's working.
Have you selected some songs to copy to the watch in the Google music app? The "add music to wear" setting alone is not enough.
I finally got some songs on it. I didn't realize how complicated and non intuitive the process was going to be. I just came from a Samsung gear s2 and it was so simple to add music. None of the music I had saved s on my phone already was transferring, just new music I re-downloaded from the Google play store.
I'm using WearMedia from Playstore to copy and play my music mp3s on the watch (stand alone)! Very cool
Aydie said:
I finally got some songs on it. I didn't realize how complicated and non intuitive the process was going to be. I just came from a Samsung gear s2 and it was so simple to add music. None of the music I had saved s on my phone already was transferring, just new music I re-downloaded from the Google play store.
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Not only new music. As I stated before, you can select songs to be copied on the watch, but you have to select them. Not all of your songs will be copied to your watch.
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
Racehunter said:
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
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The trouble here is Google Play Music isn't one of the services offered by HEOS. If you have the music stored physically on your phone you should be able to connect at minimum by Bluetooth and play it. If that doesn't work, maybe clearing app cache and restarting the app might get it to show up.
Hope this helps a little..