So I've been using all access and it's cool but I also listen to podcasts on my phone. When my phone connects to bluetooth on my car it'll usually start playing whatever I've been last listening too but I'd like an option to switch to the other media player (google play music <-> beyondpod) if I find that the phone is playing the wrong content. Is there an easy way to get this done? There doesn't seem to be a straight forward way through nfc task launcher and I'm totally inexperienced with tasker. Any ideas guys?
Hi there,
i am using my Nexus 4 with newest Android and Play Music. I uploaded my music and stream works nicely with pc and Android app. However, following problems occur:
1. Ratings from Android app are not synched to Play Music online. No matter whether i rate a track offline or while streaming via wifi at home, the rating does not show up in my internet library.
2. i activated the option to save music in cache when wifi is active and the device is plugged in. this does not work, the app only saves about 2 GB of tracks on my device when streaming via wifi. even when i leave my device plugged in and wifi activated for a whole night, the app does not save mor songs. i would like the app to constantly change the music on my device and use the whole 12 gb of free memory, so i have fresh music every day in my car. for example i listen to album a and b. later at home i want the app to delete the tracks from my device to download new tracks. i thought, that the setting i activated was just for this?
anyone hast the same problems?
Do any of you use Google maps connected to your car via BT? When I use it, my maps voice navigation works over the speakers when it's connected as media device. Like if I'm playing Google music, the nav commands come over the stereo system. But when I'm listening to regular radio, the directions come over very low and faint.
Has anyone come across this?
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I spent a good chunk of time yesterday trying to figure out how to make the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier (LTE verision) watch play I Heart Radio or Spotify independently from my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone. Everytime I go to play I Heart Radio on my watch, it opens and plays it on my phone. If I turn my phone off or disable bluetooth, the watch gives and error message and doesn't play on the watch. In other words, if I decide to leave my phone at home and want to play IHeart Radio on my watch streaming to my bluetooth headset, I can't!
Is this possible or will I have to manually transfer music to my watch to play on it independently?
Maybe the app ain't been fully optimized for the watch yet.
mar122999 said:
I spent a good chunk of time yesterday trying to figure out how to make the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier (LTE verision) watch play I Heart Radio or Spotify independently from my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone. Everytime I go to play I Heart Radio on my watch, it opens and plays it on my phone. If I turn my phone off or disable bluetooth, the watch gives and error message and doesn't play on the watch. In other words, if I decide to leave my phone at home and want to play IHeart Radio on my watch streaming to my bluetooth headset, I can't!
Is this possible or will I have to manually transfer music to my watch to play on it independently?
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Is your bluetooth headset paired with your phone? Normally there is an option under bluetooth setting of a phone and/or your watch. For example in the phone, you will see a setting for your particular bluetooth device when you tap on the gear: call audio, media audio...there should be toggles to turn it on or off. I had Gear S2 and did adjust it that way, but I had an issue with my car system where music/calls were not routed through watch and car.
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Is your bluetooth headset paired with your phone? Normally there is an option under bluetooth setting of a phone and/or your watch. For example in the phone, you will see a setting for your particular bluetooth device when you tap on the gear: call audio, media audio...there should be toggles to turn it on or off. I had Gear S2 and did adjust it that way, but I had an issue with my car system where music/calls were not routed through watch and car.
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Thanks for the reply. I've tried Bluetooth to both (phone and watch). Using a streaming app such as Iheart Radio and spotify, I can't seem to get it to play independently from my phone even though the watch is LTE with a SIM. I will check that setting though, but I would like to bluetooth it to my watch, leave my phone at home, and stream IHeart Radio while I jog...etc.
mar122999 said:
Thanks for the reply. I've tried Bluetooth to both (phone and watch). Using a streaming app such as Iheart Radio and spotify, I can't seem to get it to play independently from my phone even though the watch is LTE with a SIM.
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I haven't used an app to play anything, but I did have 5 MP3 songs on my watch(for testing purposes). Is the app that you use, is on your phone or the watch?
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I haven't used an app to play anything, but I did have 5 MP3 songs on my watch(for testing purposes). Is the app that you use, is on your phone or the watch?
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App is on both. I believe those two particular apps auto installs on both phone and watch.
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App is on both. I believe those two particular apps auto installs on both phone and watch.
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As I understand, your phone needs to think or see your watch as a media playback device as well and not only a calling device. After that it will direct sound through your watch's Bluetooth accessory that is connected to it.
Also I think not all bluetooth headsets are able to play music through them, so try another bluetooth headset or bluetooth headset that was designed for music(unless you already using this one)
I would also like to steam music on my gear s3 from i heart, Pandora, or etc. Is there a way to do this without having my s8 phone in range of my watch?
At this time, only Spotify will allow you to direct stream to your S3 without having your phone. Iheart only works as a remote to control the app on your phone, but you can't stream direct to your S3. Pandora is not available for the S3.
I have recently installed a new px5 4G Oreo head unit and can play music via BT from my iPhone Apple Music app fine, but if it try and listen to a podcast from the apple podcast app it stutters all the time.
I find that a) very annoying, and b) very odd that's it's only doing it on the podcast app and not the normal music one!
Has anybody else had anything similar or have any ideas on what I might try to resolve it?
Although to be honest I find the BT app very poor anyway, on my last car head unit I could select tracks by album etc (a bit like having the files on the sd card) but all this one can do is play pause prev and next.
I'm probably going to sack BT off and get a CarPlay dongle then I don't need to worrry about BT