my wife would like to connect to my music library. is it possible to add her gmail/google account to my google music library. basically, i would like both our phones to connect to the same music library through google music. it would a lot easier if we only need to manage one library on one home computer. is that possible?
wasya152 said:
my wife would like to connect to my music library. is it possible to add her gmail/google account to my google music library. basically, i would like both our phones to connect to the same music library through google music. it would a lot easier if we only need to manage one library on one home computer. is that possible?
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While I have not tested this, I know when you open the music app for the first time it asks you to select an existing account or add another. You could try adding yours on her phone via this method and see what happens. Keep in mind though that you can only stream from one device at a time.
madj42 said:
While I have not tested this, I know when you open the music app for the first time it asks you to select an existing account or add another. You could try adding yours on her phone via this method and see what happens. Keep in mind though that you can only stream from one device at a time.
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yep. this worked. i didn't think of just adding my account to her phone's music player
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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
I have not been using my watch for the last year, now I wanted to use it for the offline music in the gym but I can't find the play music app on my watch.
Anyone knows how I can solve the problem?
Is there any other way to get music on my watch?
I installed g.music 3 days ago, no problem it will take a few mins before it gets transfered.
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I installed g.music 3 days ago, no problem it will take a few mins before it gets transfered.
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I don't know how but it was automatically installed after a few hours but it doesn't sync the downloaded music with the phone.
When I try sincyng I get the error message: "the phone isn't connected. Reconnect to download music"
vins91 said:
I don't know how but it was automatically installed after a few hours but it doesn't sync the downloaded music with the phone.
When I try sincyng I get the error message: "the phone isn't connected. Reconnect to download music"
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No idea. Works for me, but google music needs time to get all the playlist and music initialized. Then you can select songs or entire playlists to be synced. Sorry for this late and uninformative reply
Is the watch working again now I had issues pairing with my phone
I got a similar problem: I got an old used Sony Smartwatch 3 820A from a friend and i only care for the offline music function since want to listen to music without having to bring my phone...
So I set it up according to the instructions (Wear OS) and it pairs just fine etc... It says it´s got free internal storage too (2gb+). From what i read storing songs on the watch is supposed to work with Google Music.
But i can not figure out a way to get GMusic on my watch. There is no Play Store on the watch and I´m not sure if it´s supposed to have it. I tried syncing the apps several times as well, nothing.
At some point another app (DB Navigator) got installed out of the blue without me doing anything (wasn´t after manually syncning either lol).
I tried to look it up and maybe the answer is out there but i did not find it yet.
Maybe there´s a good soul here that can tell me how to fix this or at least tell me if there´s supposed to be a Play Store on the watch. Maybe I just have to wait and g.music will sync eventually though....
Has anyone been able to do this? I've seen a video where someone had offline music stored but I don't have an option to do it. Tried uninstalling Spotify from my phone and watch to start again. Then downloaded both from the Google play store but the version on my watch looks so basic. No search options just a list of recently played items when I swipe right. All I can do is select one and it will start playing on my phone. No options in the settings either. Has it downloaded an old version for me or something? I have Spotify premium although it was through Vodafone
I think I've sorted it...
Went into settings, about watch, storage and accepted the permissions, now I can download songs!