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! 

[Raylyn]

How do you get the music to work on the fitbit blaze with a note 5? Help please just bought this may return it do to I can't listen to my music on it.

[StephNicole]

There was an earlier post that worked for my Samsung. You follow the
directions and turn on Bluetooth Classic on the Blaze (under settings) and
then go into your Bluetooth on your phone and you need to scan for new
devices...it will show you paired to Blaze but you need to connect to Blaze
Classic. Once you scan for new devices it should appear and let you pair to
it. Then it will give you a code to enter to verify.

[KimbP]

Is there a way to completely disable this function, connected to IOS? It works too well and my phone will start blaring a podcast at inappropriate times when the buttons or the face is hit inadvertantly (like if I wipe the screen to clean it). Once it happened in a meeting at work of 100 people (so embarassing) and has happened in the middle of the night when I'm trying to sleep. I don't use the function, please let me disable it. 

[Charmbutterfly]

I just got my blaze set up and when I try to pair it with my phone I keep getting this error "Could not pair with blaze (classic) because of incorrect PIN or passkey". Can someone help me please 😞

[Rich_Laue]

Ypu should see the pin number on both the phone and the Blaze. Confirm the Blaze first, then the phone.

[Charmbutterfly]

Hello! Thanks for replying! The problem is that a PIN never shows up on my
phone or blaze, I just get an error message saying incorrect PIN or passkey
😞

[ducki72]

I am having the same problem just flashes "Connecting"  to "Loading Music", I have no control.  Did you ever figure out how to get it to work?  I'm using Samsung S6

[SunsetRunner]

I too had this problem same phone. I went into android settings, selected APPS, then found the fitbit app, clicked/touched "Storage" cleared the cache, and cleared the data. Then rebooted both device and phone, Then tried to re-pair classic BT and it worked. You then need to open FitBit app and log back in, all my data for the day, week etc is intact. The alarms, and other seetings also seemed to be intact. Just remember you need to start the music first on your phone then you can control from band.

Hope that works, I tried install, uninstall and so much other BS and none of it worked.

hunter

[SunsetRunner]

start music on phone first, then band will allow control.

[SunsetRunner]

I too had this problem. Andoid phone Moto X Pure.

I went into android settings, selected APPS, then found the fitbit app, clicked/touched "Storage" cleared the cache, and cleared the data. Then rebooted both device and phone, Then tried to re-pair classic BT and it worked. You then need to open FitBit app and log back in, all my data for the day, week etc is intact. The alarms, and other seetings also seemed to be intact. Just remember you need to start the music first on your phone then you can control from band.

Hope that works, I tried install, uninstall and so much other BS and none of it worked.

[Rich_Laue]

When this happens to me, I go to the phones BT screen, tell the phone to unpair the Blaze Classic, then pair them up.

[SunsetRunner]

Our problem was a bit different, we were never able to accomplish the initial classic BT pair as the PIN numbers never displayed on either the phone or the Blaze, and an error message "unable to pair pins dont match".  

[Froats]

Mine does the same.. Droid turbo 2..

[Froats]

I do all this but it still won't give me the pass code screen..

[SunsetRunner]

When I finally was able to pair, it took a several tries, to the point where I gave up a couple days, then tried again with clearing the phone cache and data in the fitbit app. It was very frustrating and I almost returned it. 

I also remember it toook almost a full minute for the phone and device to negotaite a new pairing number, to the point where I thought it was stuck. I saw someone else pair the band to anyother BT device to see if it would pair with that device, a computer, or ipad etc. I know the classic BT is very tempermental. I spent a least a couple hours being frustrated. Good luck. I am on android 6, dont know if that matters. I also know that fitbit needs to be in phone memory not installed on SD card. So check to see if the app by chance installed by default to your SD card if you have one.

[Travisjs]

I would like to leave some feedback about the music control feature, first of all i am using this watch(fitbit blaze) with a samsung galaxy s6, and they communicate perfectly! the music control option is great, it works nicely and makes it so much easier to change music while running. that being said, i find it very tedious that when you try to use any of the exercise features, you are no longer able to control your music. i find this very bothersome because i want to use the exercise features so i can see how many calories i am buring for specific workouts, but i am almost to the point where i dont even want to use the exercise features because of this issue, i know it is a very small issue but if there is some way to have an update to allow users to change music while using the exercise feature that would be awesome!

[Charmbutterfly]

I also use the blaze with my droid turbo 2 and I cant change the music while using the exercise options. I also can't change the music from the blaze when I use wireless Bluetooth headphones. If this is fixed that would be great!

[Travisjs]

i did a little more digging and actually found out how to do so. while in your exercise mode, press and hold the top right button and your music options will pop up!

[Travisjs]

as far as the bluetooth issues, i ran into this the other day and found a fix. I totally forgot the steps though, it was something to do with the connection order, you either need to connect your headset first, then reconnect your watch, or vise versa.

[ducki72]

I haven't tried to use the exercise feature and change music yet. However,
I have found a way to control music and use wireless headsets.

If you start your music and sync it to your Fitbit so you can control the
music then turn on your wireless earbuds you can continue controlling your
music. If you turn the earbuds on first it's seems to become a struggle for
the Fitbit to connect to bluetooth (Blaze Classic) completely.

Sent from my BFF Samsung GalaxyS6, please excuse typos 😄