Blaze Music Control Information Post

[EmersonFitbit]

Music Control gets a facelift with Blaze! Learn more about your power to control music below. For a more detailed look at Music Control on your Blaze, please see this help article.

Music Control:

With Blaze, you can control your music with the touch of a button! To access Music Control, simply swipe downward on your home screen. Improvements to this feature include a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) connection for iOS instead of BT Classic. We've also added the ability to rewind and increase/decrease the volume of the song, in addition to fast forwarding and play/pause. 

 

Notes: 

• Android and Windows phones will still use BT Classic for using Music Control. 
• While in exercise mode, press/hold Blaze's top-right button for 2 seconds to bring Music Control up. 
• You'll use both buttons on the right to control volume on Blaze. See image to the right.
• As with most other Bluetooth devices, if you connect another Bluetooth device and disconnect your Blaze, you will have to connect it again the next time you want to use it to control music.

No matter what you're rocking out to, we're sure you'll love using Music Control on Blaze! 

[DerrickS]

@Mandyrn1079 Native music apps are music apps that are platform specific and usually come pre-loaded on a phone. For example, itunes on iOS devices would be a native music app. 

@bstngirl That's awesome!

[bstngirl]

Yeah, it was sick! I'm liking this blaze so far so good. 😄

[Rookey]

Hi EmersonFitbit ; Having a little difficuly with my Music screen. It pairs with my iPhone fine, I've played Pandora and native ios with no problem. It streams the title of what is playing and provides back, pause and forwward buttons. The problem is that there is no volume keys and the Notifications Off/On selection is on the screen. I assume that's what's blocking the volume settings.

I can toggle Notifications off/on but the selection stays there. Here's a blurry pic:

[Kmransom123]

FYI - Use the two buttons on the right hand side to control the volume level.

[SunsetRunner]

@Rookey the volume buttons appear when you press the right hand buttons

Edit: Nuts, pipped at the post by @kmransom123

[Rookey]

Perfect, it works. Keep wondering what those buttons are for! 🙂 I'm trying to use FitBit like my iphone.

Thanks

[SunsetRunner]

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@Rookey wrote:

I'm trying to use FitBit like my iphone.

Thanks

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You'll be disappointed; you can't make or receive calls on the Blaze 😉

[bstngirl]

Ok, so I finally used the music control whilst working out. I had some trouble pairing to my ipod touch (newest gen). Blaze showed up but it didnt respond so i sued the classic BT? That got it working, somwhere midway in my workout it stopped responding, no pause no skip nothing thought it showed the song track and I could hear it playing. Any suggestions?  

[Tarra]

I guess no music controls for me either.  I have a Samsung Galaxy 6 and the controls come up but show "not connected".  I have set it to pair and turned on my music.  What other steps am I missing? 

[rockermom]

I was wondering the same thing. I haven't figured it out yet. Music control works, unless I am using my wireless earbuds.
😯

[EmersonFitbit]

When introducing wireless headphones that connect through Bluetooth into the equation, you may run into interference with the two systems. @rockermom For this reason, I'd recommend using wired headphones. 

[rockermom]

Thank you. I guessed that it was a problem. But it's a better problem than my phone flying off the treadmill due to smacking the headphones cord! Lol! 


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[nmbentley1988]

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@EmersonFitbit wrote:

When introducing wireless headphones that connect through Bluetooth into the equation, you may run into interference with the two systems. @rockermom For this reason, I'd recommend using wired headphones. 

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I get around this by first pairing the Blaze with my phone, then start a music application (Google Music in this case).  Afterwards, I pair my head phones (Jabra bluetooth).  This enables me to control my music from my blaze while wearing the headphones. Might take a few tries to get it to work correctly though.

My phone is a Galaxy S6 btw. 

[Jesikayla]

I'm also having this problem of having to reset Bluetooth pairing for music or podcast control on android every 15 minutes of non use...sort of defeats purpose....

[Rich_Laue]

The ones that are on the phone when you got it. IE: Apps that you did not download
For me or is Google Play snd an app called music.

[bstngirl]

Thats dissappointing, I got the blaze primarily for the music control. Who wants to be tethered with wired headphoones?!  If i dont get it to work, it will have to go back. As it is i found it a little awkward doing any exercies that involve wrist flexion I like it but come on, now.

I pay too much for the blaze and my jaybird buds to not enjoy them both together. 

[EmersonFitbit]

@bstngirl I've seen wireless music control and audio output connection go both ways: really well or not at all. 

While I'm not sure about the effectiveness of this workaround, @nmbentley1988 posted a cool workaround here that you may be interested in checking out. 

[GabeG1971]

I found that if you go to settings on Blaze,scroll all of the way down and hit shutdown then bring it back up the music starts working again. Be sure you're still connected on your cell.

[GabeG1971]

I'm using Pandora,music from my cell and wireless ear buds and they all work fine with it after I shutdown.

[nmbentley1988]

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@GabeG1971 wrote:
I found that if you go to settings on Blaze,scroll all of the way down and hit shutdown then bring it back up the music starts working again. Be sure you're still connected on your cell.

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I think you can also goto settings, switch off bluetooth classic, then switch it back on to fix the music control.