Spotify - Android Wear App I hope that Spotify Team keep an eye at Android Wear.:).
Requires Spotify Premium and does not support offline playback due to Spotify SDK limitations! Android Wear app for Spotify. Please contact be my email for any issues and support questions before leaving a review.
Wear OS by Google works with phones running Android 6.0+ (excluding Go edition) or iOS 10.0+. Supported features may vary between platforms and countries. Check if your phone works with Wear OS by Google.
Google’s Wear OS platform has had a Spotify app for a while, but it’s only ever had the ability to play music on your phone or on connected devices throughout the home. When questioned about why the app can’t store music offline on Wear OS smartwatches, Spotify said it was “impossible.”
In a community request forum, Spotify marked offline playback for Wear OS as “implemented” (via Android Central), but it turns out that was a mistake. Hours later, the feature was moved back to “under consideration,” but a statement from a community manager stands:
We have a lot of very good idea submissions in this Idea Exchange. We love getting all your ideas; and we’re even happier when we can set any idea to Implemented. However, when we have ideas like this one, that are very broad in nature, it becomes virtually impossible to set it to Implemented because Wear OS (in this case) is a big category and encapsulates many devices. All (wearable) devices are different and support different features; either because of their platform, their software, or their hardware (limitations.)
There’s a lot to unpack there. Saying that this is “impossible” when the feature has been implemented across every Android phone, every Samsung smartwatch, and every Windows PC is quite laughable and obviously not the real reason. In fact, it’s probably easier to implement this feature on Wear OS compared to other platforms given the small number of specification differences there are between various models.
Why is Spotify holding back? It’s entirely possible it’s just a case of the company not seeing enough value added to justify the development time, but in any case, it’s understandable that Wear OS users are frustrated by this, especially given the miscommunication that happened on the forums this morning. For now, we’ll just have to continue to wait on this one.
It’s a shame this isn’t happening too, because the Google Play Music app for Wear OS was one of the only ways to get offline music easily, and it’s been murdered without a replacement.
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Spotify is now available for your Android Wear smartwatch. With Wear Spotify you can easily browse your playlists and select your favorite songs without using the mobile phone. In addition, you can regulate the volume and control your media player on the mobile phone remotely. The current artist, song title and album art is shown as notification card on watch. More features will be added soon. Please write us an email first before leaving a bad review. We will resolve the problem quickly. Thank you.
Features on your wearable: – Search and play playlists – Browse featured playlists – Select and play individual tracks of your playlist – Increase or decrease volume – Turning the shuffle or repeat mode on and off – Play the next or previous track – Pause the media player – Mute playback – Display of artist, track and album art – Start playing an album, artist top tracks or radio via voice
Spotify Android Wear App Sync
Features on the mobile phone: – Option to use spotify app for playing songs (support for offline playback and playing songs without a spotify premium account) – Login, Logout with your Spotify account – Play the next or previous track – Pause the media player – Display of artist, track and album art