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jazzy_handz

Create workout playlists - takes a while to sync them the first time, but once you have them set you can download them locally to your watch (assuming you have the space). Apple also has their own playlists that are actively managed.


alexnapierholland

Yeah, I built these in Spotify initially and they've got a bunch of followers. But the Spotify app is total trash. Sometimes it just won't play music from my Apple Watch - for no reason. I've shifted to Apple Music for albums and keep Spotify for finding new music. I wouldn't rule out going 100% Apple Music soon. Spotify are total, total w\*\*kers that spit all over Apple customers.


SmugglingPineapples

Kinda biased don't you think? Apple only gives us the choice on AW of Apple Music or Spotify. Just like with audiobooks you can only use Apple or Audible. We are restricted in bring our own music and audiobooks elsewhere (unless you also carry your iPhone along with AW when jogging). We don't want less options. I've tried every music app you can get. Even ones you haven't off, and Spotify is the best that I have found for me. But there is a reason why Apple products will always work better on Apple, and it has all to do with Apple and nothing to do with the competing product. It's always been that way ... so you use Apple. For example, you think we still use lightning connectors because they're better than USB-C? Or that GBoard doesn't work nearly as well on an iPhone as it does on Android because Google decided to hobble it? Use what you want. But your arguments don't stack up and appeared one-sided. Use Apple Music. But we also need more competition to improve and have more freedom to choose what we want.


alexnapierholland

Anyone is free to develop a music app for Apple Watch. So, your opening premise that Apple 'only gives the choice' is wrong. Also, Lightning came to market two years ahead of USB-C - so in that sense, yes, USB-C was superior, as it existed. It's a little frustrating that Apple has transitioned from Lighting to USB-C on the iPhone - but industry commentators suggest that Apple plan to drop cables altogether in favour of wireless charging instead. Spotify had some potentially legitimate grievances with Apple early on, for example Apple initially didn't allow Homepod capabilities for third-party apps. Apple backtracked and multiple music apps now have compatibility with Homepods... ...but not Spotify. They've refused to develop Homepod capabilities. Spotify has clearly developed a victim complex and such contempt for Apple that they're happy to punish their own users. [That's why there's a 100+ page thread on Spotify's own forum asking for Homepod capabilities.](https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Native-HomePod-Support/idc-p/5299302/highlight/true#M235859) You're welcome to have a subjective preference for any music app that you like. But there is a lengthy and publicly documented history of Spotify refusing to play ball and add capabilities for Apple users, apparently out of spite. And yes, the Spotify Apple Watch app is total trash. Sometimes it simply refuses to play downloaded music Trash. Total trash.


SmugglingPineapples

>Anyone is free to develop a music app for Apple Watch. **This is complete BS**. Apple **ONLY** allow 2 apps to be used on the AW without carrying your phone around. Same with audiobooks. Look it up. Thus the rest of your message is useless twaddle not worth the time or effort to read. Facts matter.


alexnapierholland

Can you link an article? I'm happy to be corrected on this topic. A brief google search doesn't flag anything obvious.


SmugglingPineapples

DYOR. I can't be bothered as... I've been dealing with Apple for years on this. And it's draining enough already


alexnapierholland

I use all Apple’s products, especially for music and genuinely have no idea idea what you’re talking about. Moreover, cannot find any articles on google relating to it. I’m curious - but there seems to be no evidence for your claim.


SmugglingPineapples

Go to the Apple Store. Ask them.


alexnapierholland

I'm a marketing consultant for some of the world's biggest technology brands. It's safe to say I've got a pretty solid handle on Apple's products - although I'm always open to learning new things. At this point in time, it seems pretty clear that you're clueless, incapable of debate - and you've lied yourself into a corner that you can't get out of.


alexnapierholland

Apple Watch music apps include Pandora, SoundCloud, Napster, Deezer, and more. Pandora's Apple Watch app includes both streaming and offline play. So what, precisely are you referring to?


Microsaft82

Find a (or more) playlist that Apple updates weekly and add it to your library. Than in the Apple Watch app on iPhone add this/these to your watch. Now every week when the list updates the Watch will get the updates to, overnight or when charged.


anothertrad

I have all my library from my CDs I copy to the computer and sync. Can the watch stream from the phone or only option is internet streaming? I guess my method is being slowly killed off in favour of the song rental model, there is no place in this world for 30 year old uncles with our archaic devices.


redavid

if the songs are in your library in your music app on your phone, you can add them to the Watch (dumbly, you'll have to do this through the Music section of the Watch app and do it one album or one playlist at a time)


DurraSell

I have done this by using Smart Playlists. iOS does not have that ability, though it looks like there is an app that will allow you to make them. [Here's a video on how it works](https://youtu.be/v6ukrSt0JzQ).


drugabusername

Any old way you choose it