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! 

[Rich_Laue]

Nothing in the OP help? What music app are you using, and where you able to pair the classic BT?

[sjpiranha]

Whoa! Just got it to work on my Turbo 2. I had to start playing the music on my phone first then changed the setting on watch to pair Bluetooth Classic, then went to phone under settings, bluetooth and refreshed, Bluetooth Classic came up and I was able to pair it. The pinkey numbers popped up on my phone and watch asking to confirm. Finally!!!! Hope you have the same luck! 

[sjpiranha]

I use the Amazon app for music

[motojg]

no such luck yet

[ReadyMadeDST]

Spotify

[Rich_Laue]

Have you looked at this https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/I-m-having-trouble-using-my-Surge-for-music-cont...
They say both Amazon and Spotify have been tested. I would try first without having a BT sound stem hooked up.

[Moresco2]

iPhone is requiring me know to pair in classic mode for music controls and I cannot control volume. Is this something to do with iOS 9.3?

[Moresco2]

iPhone is requiring me know to pair in classic mode for music controls and I cannot control volume. Is this something to do with iOS 9.3? I also cannot fast forward or rewind

[Johnny_B]

What is the situation with people who have music controls that don't work?

Can we expect a firmware update shortly?

[Fosse66]

It works just fine with every music service I've tried on both iOs and Android.

Presently using Google Play Music on iOs.

[Johnny_B]

I am glad that it does works for you, however it is still broken for myself and from this thread quite a few other people.

I get one of two problems:

• The song displays but the controls do not function
• The controls funtion (periodically) but the song displayed on screen does not change.

I have tested it with Power amp, Googleplay music and spotify with the same results.

Have rebooted and paired again with my phone but get the same results.

It would be nice to hear from Fitbit on the subject.

[Moresco2]

Sometimes you have to restart the device

Sent from my iPhone

[Fosse66]

I'm not sure why Fitbit would even respond as music control works as advertised, at least for me, using Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music, Walkman, Shuttle Music Player et al.

I wouldn't touch Power amp with a bargepole as it is buggy crapware, even the paid version.. Also, older model androids and iPhones won't work as seamlessly.

[StephNicole]

Thank you so much for this post! I kept trying to connect to the regular Blaze, never realizing I needed to scan for Blaze Classic. My music control now easily works. This was drizing me nuts and I had just decided that music controls didn't work for my Samsung S5 and you just made my day!!! 🙂

[Bikeroo]

I have a pair of Klipsch Bluetooth headphones. When I wear them with the cable attached to my phone, the Blaze's music controls work. When I unplug them the controls don't work. I can't find any information on this forum about people having this problem. In my opinion, what's the point of having bluetooth headphones if I'm teethered to my phone? 

[Rich_Laue]

Try connecting the headphones, then startup the app. No try the music control. 

Some BT headphones and their music control seem to want precedence over the Blaze.

[DannyCortegaca]

Is it possible to control the music whilst running an exercise session? I did a weights workout earlier today and went to exercise > weights and started from there but was unable to swipe down to control the music from my phone. Is it only from the home screen that we are able to do this? 

[PieMavi]

Guys I made up a post with the most requested features for the blaze, go check it out and eventually vote it so maybe they're gonna listen to us 🙂 https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Requests/Fitbit-Blaze-most-expected-features/idi-p/1294590#M...

[SmetcH]

Press and hold upper right button for music control during exercise session.

[JohanVB18]

My girlfriend has the same problem. She can open the music control on the screen while exercising, but none of the buttons work. She has to stop her run-timer, open the music control seperately to change the songs...