The 2000's Called, They Want Their MP3 Player Back!

[NoPainNoGain]

Fitbit really needs to up their game here.  I considered transferring music to this device - from CDs  I ripped like 15 years ago, but I have a Mac and am not an iTunes user.  I refuse to create a playlist in iTunes.  C'mon Fitbit!  Really!  What a sucky user experience!

I didn't buy the watch to play music, so I'm not returning it just yet.  I'm hoping they get with 2017 and provide Google Play Music and Spotify soon.

[SunsetRunner]

Yeah, um, I'm betting that's going to be up to Google and Spotify to create apps for the Ionic, just as Flipboard and Yelp have done, and Adidas will be doing.

[NoPainNoGain]

That makes sense (Google and Spotify), but from a music player experience, having to create playlists is awful.  I should be able to just drag 'n drop mp3s to the device.  

[SunsetRunner]

@NoPainNoGain

A lot of people are yelling for Spotify. And I guess what I don't understand is, what would Google Play or Spotify do for anyone? Unless I don't know how these are intended to work, don't you still have to cart your phone around to act as the data connection to these services? I don't use the Pandora app - haven't used Pandora for two or three years - so I don't see the draw. 

If that's the case, just use the watch to control them. I know it works for Google Music (both stations and stored music), because I use that. I don't have Spotify, so I don't know if you can control the phone app from the watch.

[WavyDavey]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

@NoPainNoGain

A lot of people are yelling for Spotify. And I guess what I don't understand is, what would Google Play or Spotify do for anyone? Unless I don't know how these are intended to work, don't you still have to cart your phone around to act as the data connection to these services? I don't use the Pandora app - haven't used Pandora for two or three years - so I don't see the draw. 

If that's the case, just use the watch to control them. I know it works for Google Music (both stations and stored music), because I use that. I don't have Spotify, so I don't know if you can control the phone app from the watch.

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That's the point  of personal  music  and  pandora on the ionic. Both hold3 the music on board the watch. Leave the phone behind.

[MFLitchfield]

Use the W10 app.  You don't need to generate playlists.

[SunsetRunner]

@WavyDavey

Yeah, I get that putting my music on the watch is so I don't need the phone, but I didn't know that Pandora stored music to the watch as well. 

[SunsetRunner]

@NoPainNoGain

FWIW - There is a request over at Spotify for an app.

See here. And here.

[SunsetRunner]

@SunsetRunner They may  put in place a DRM time limited copy of the tracks you wish to listen to on the Ionic. I imagine that's perhaps whats happening with the Pandora support.

I encountered something similar with a native 3rd party client on the BlackBerry Z30 for Google music fon BBOS10

As for Spotify you can control skipping back and forward tracks on playlists running on our handset, that's what I do.

[Danymite]

Engadget, TechCrunch , and TechRadar all reported Fitbit will provide another subscription based music service called Deezer sometime next year.  I must be really out of the loop...had to look up what Deezer is.

[SunsetRunner]

@Danymite Deezer has been around for quite some time and does have a following just not up there with Spotify with regards to user base.

It is also a good service and unlike Pandora is available outside of the US :).

[Danymite]

Good news for all out friends outside of US!

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

@Danymite Deezer has been around for quite some time and does have a following just not up there with Spotify with regards to user base.

It is also a good service and unlike Pandora is available outside of the US :).

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[Andrew103]

+1 for a Spotify app from me, because I get a free Spotify Premium subscription from my ISP.