Smartwatches give us a lot of neat conveniences, from checking your notifications with just a glance at your wrist to controlling the media you’re currently playing. However, even the biggest tech fans have to admit that smartwatches don’t really give you anything that you don’t have on your phone. The selling point is convenience.
That being said, we wanted to pass on a little tip that benefits Android Wear smartwatches independently. Many of them have an internal storage bin at their disposal. This allows a way to get music on the device and stream it to a Bluetooth headset, offline and without a phone connection. Pretty great isn’t it?
However, there is a caveat with this possibility – it can only be done through Google’s Play Music service. This number, because Android Wear is a product of Google. So if you’re a Play Music user, let’s learn how to get music onto your smartwatch.
1. Enable Android Wear Download Settings in the Play Music app
The first step to setting up your Android Wear smartwatch with some music of its own is to enable the feature in the Play Music app. Just go to the app settings and scroll to the bottom. You will see the Android Wear section.
There are two options here: 1) Download Android Wear and 2) Manage Wear Downloads. They explain themselves. Enabling Android Wear for offline playback will activate a download manager for you to use.
When you tap Wear Download Manageryou were brought to Wear sync area (where all the magic happens).
2. Select and download music
Before we begin, there is a special point to be explained between the interaction between the phone and the smartwatch. After you do Step #1, any music you’ve downloaded to your phone for offline use will automatically start transferring to your watch.
Notice how it says all storage has been used up
This is a huge taboo that I can’t believe Google has yet to address. The smartwatch has much less storage than your phone (that’s 4GB on my Moto 360, of which I only have 2.1GB available for media). Chances are you have more than that saved on your phone. If you don’t stop the transfer (which we’ll cover soon), the system will automatically attempt to sync as much as possible until the clock runs out of space.
What should happen instead is that it shouldn’t do anything and let the user choose what to put on the watch (regardless of what’s on the phone). That way, users can be more selective with minimal space at their disposal.
So what you have to do immediately is uncheck each album that is trying to sync automatically, in Wear Download Manager area. Just tap the smartwatch icon to the right of each album (you’ll see it grayed out when unchecked).
Notice how the available space frees up when I deselect
After doing this, you can choose which albums to send to your watch.
Note: Your watch won’t let you download music if the battery is below 75%. You’ll see a message asking you to charge your watch to sync.
Another thing to know is that transferring music to your smartwatch is not a quick process. An album took me 10-15 minutes. So you will need a little patience in this step. Also, keep an eye on the available storage as you download more and more.
3. Pairing Bluetooth Headset
Once you’ve completed Step #2 and all the music you want is on your smartwatch, it’s time to pair your Bluetooth headphones. Just go to the Play Music app on your watch and try playing music.
When you tap play on wearyou will be notified that no devices are connected.
Agree to go to settings and you will have to pair your Bluetooth device.
If your headset is normally connected to your phone, you’ll want to disconnect that pairing first or turn off Bluetooth on your phone (or it will automatically connect to it).
4. Start listening!
Once your headphones are paired with the watch, that’s it! You can start enjoying music without your phone.
The Play Music app will show you what albums/playlists you have available (swipe from top to bottom). Swiping to the right will allow you mix or view the list of songs in the album.
When playing, the standard music controls are just a swipe to the right of Now playing screen.
Is this a feature you would use?
Without a doubt, you can listen to music directly from your smartwatch. The usefulness of this feature comes to my mind most when thinking about exercise. You no longer have to carry your phone and have media needs on your wrist.
That’s not to say Android Wear integration is perfect. Our top request to Google is to increase the speed of music downloading to the smartwatch. It’s painfully slow.
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