- I love spotify and Samsung but with the Galaxy Watch Spotify is very clunky. I've got the 46mm Bluetooth Galaxy Watch. I've tried so many options but frequently have the app on the Galaxy Watch tell me its Offline when it isn't. It means I can't download any playlists. Have you faced this, any solutions.
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So you have purchased your Samsung Gear S3 and you want to be able to exercise with your performance data visible on your phone, have the workout sync automatically to Strava and listen to your offline playlists in Spotify? The reasonable response to this is to download the Strava and Spotify apps onto your Gear S3 and get exercising…well…that would be wrong. Strava don’t even have an app for the Gear S3 and Spotify requires some odd settings tweaks from the default to get it working. In this blog I’m going to show you exactly how to enable Spotify offline and Strava on your Samsung Gear S3.
To enjoy your Spotify tunes on-the-go, just download the Spotify add-on app for the smartwatch through the Gear Manager app on your paired smartphone. In our humble opinion, the Samsung Gear S3 is the best running watch with Spotify that you can lay your hands on right now (by quite a margin).
How To Enable Spotify Offline on Gear S3
- Download and install the Spotify app onto your Gear S3. This is simple, just follow the prompts in the Gear app on your phone.
- In the Gear S3 be sure to go to Settings>Connections>Wifi and set to “Always on”. This is important.
- In Spotify settings, ensure Playback is set to “Stream on wifi” instead of “Remote”. One small quirk to this, you may have to login to Spotify using the extra streaming device logins (user credentials are random number and your chosen password..set in the Spotify account settings online). I actually had to delete an existing device as I had too many already in use.
- Go to Your Music>Your Playlists and you’ll see the option to “Download”. Select whichever playlist(s) you wish to download onto the watch.
Note: The Samsung Gear S3 only has a small amount of space available to store the playlists (around 1gb). My recommendation it to only download a workout specific playlist rather than your possibly very large normal playlist.
How To Enable Strava on the Samsung Gear S3
Enabling Strava on your Samsung Gear S3 isn’t as straight forward as it should be, and if it weren’t for a developer named Stefan Thomas and his custom watch face named “Sporty Watch” it still wouldn’t be possible.
Sporty Watch does a number of things really well, such as show your live exercise data (Speed, Distance, Time, Pace, Heart Rate). It also allows you to connect to some widely used bluetooth heart rate wearables. Most importantly though, Sporty Watch automatically syncs your exercise data straight into Strava once you’re all finished up and have returned to a Wifi connection.
This was technically possible using the built in Samsung Health exercise tracking app, with the connected services option. However, a large number of users reported consistent differences in the exercise data between the two services after syncing, making it pretty much pointless.
Enabling Strava on your Samsung Gear S3 with the Sporty Watch face is as simple as the below:
- Purchase and download the Sporty Watch face on the Gear app store (it’s about $5AUD…bargain!). http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=org.qooapps.sportywatch
- Ensure your watch settings has GPS on by going to Settings>Connections>Location and turn Location services on. I chose the “GPS only” option instead of “Wifi and GPS”. (you may need to restart your watch after this).
- Once installed, simple double tap in the open space next to the main time display to see your options.
- Navigate to the Strava options and double tap the “Login” option. This will prompt you to login to Strava on your phone. I found this a bit frustrating because it wouldn’t always let me login using the browser it opens. I found that if I opened the actual Strava app at this point, it would login on the watch.
Get Running With Spotify and Strava!
So there you have it…if you own a Samsung Gear S3 and want to enable Strava and Spotify offline mode, follow the above and you’ll be listening to your favourite playlist and exercising with Strava in no time!
For those of you wondering that this has to do with Web and App development…well…not a great deal other than to show how poorly wearable app’s and cloud services are currently managed.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch arrives with several upgrades. Other than the cool customization features and fitness tracking, this smartwatch sports a uber cool Always On Watch feature. Also, you could connect your Bluetooth earphones to it. Most importantly, the Galaxy Watch also came with the ability to add offline songs. Neat.
But as I have now grown to realize, after using the watch for around six months, you can become bored of these stored songs pretty soon. And in the long run, you are bound to come across this scenario sooner than later. Of course, the situation is the same for apps as well.
Whether it’s our habit of being disloyal to apps or we are scared of our devices running out of storage, uninstalling or removing apps is part and parcel of our lives. The mantra is simple — remove the old and welcome home the new ones. Then there’s this habit of Samsung placing some unwanted (and sometimes unnecessary) apps on its devices.
So if you are someone like me who is looking to remove old music tracks and uninteresting apps from your Samsung Galaxy Watch, here’s what you should do.
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Here’s how you can delete those files from your Galaxy Watch.
Step 1: On your Galaxy Watch, navigate to the Music Player app and tap on Open app. And, quite obviously, this will open the music app. Make sure that the music source is set to Watch.
Next, swipe up on the screen to bring up all the list of songs, playlists, and albums.
Step 2: If you want to delete tracks individually, scroll down until you see the Tracks option, and select it. Now, hit the tiny three-dot menu on the left side, as shown in the screenshot below.
Step 3: Next, hit the Delete icon. At this point, you'll be asked to select the songs that you want to be removed. All you have to do is scroll down the list and choose the tracks.
Once you’ve selected all the tracks, hit the Delete button and that’s all.
However, deleting hundreds of songs in this manner can be a pain. Hence, if you remove all the offline songs from your Samsung Galaxy Watch, tap on the little Zero-icon at the top. That is the Select All function for your smartwatch.
And you know the rest, tap on the Delete button and let your watch handle the rest of the job, as you get ready to welcome new songs aboard your watch.
You can also do the same for playlists or albums.
Like any music player, you can also set the player of your watch to shuffle or repeat your songs. After all, it’s smart, right? OK, I went a bit too far here.
On a serious note, you can also star a song or switch the volume levels on your Galaxy Watch. To do so, open the Music Player app, and tap on the tiny three-dot icon at the right side. Select the option you like best. Yes, you can thank me later.
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Thankfully, on your Samsung Galaxy watch, it’s quite easy to uninstall the apps you don’t need. However, you’d need the Galaxy Wearable app connected to your phone for this process to work.
On your phone, open the Galaxy Wearable app and select Apps. Scroll down until you see the app you want to remove.
Tap on the card and hit the Uninstall button. Do note that you can’t remove built-in apps like Music, Settings, or Galaxy Apps.
To make your work even easier, tap on the three-dots menu, and select Uninstall. Now, tap on the Minus-icon on the right side of each app. Simple and sweet.
Pro Tip: Just like widgets, you can also change the order of apps. To do so, tap on the three-dot menu and select Reorder.However, you can’t remove or uninstall all the apps (yes, Weather app, I am looking at you). That is usually the scene with apps that have been added by your carrier or Samsung. Plus, there are the ones that are crucial to your watch’s daily running. Thankfully, you can have the widgets removed.
To do so, navigate to the widget section in the Wearable app and tap on the minus icon beside the widget you wish to remove. The good news is that you can re-enable these whenever you want.
All you need to do is add them again from under the Add widgets section.
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The good thing about the Samsung Galaxy Watch is that you get plenty of features and customization options to tweak it the way you want. What’s important is that the process is not rocket science.
All you need to do is explore all the hidden nooks and crannies of your watch (and its companion apps), and you should be master of your watch in no time.
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So, which Galaxy Watch feature is your favorite? I am smitten by the reason that it doubles up as a portable music player. Just connect your Bluetooth-enabled earphones and leave your phone behind. After all, your walks (or jogs) should be a distraction-free affair.
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