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@jean-william-cousin Google Music would indeed provide the offline playback, but from what I understand a lot of people use Spotify for social/playlist aspects of it which isn’t matched by Google Music. Also there’s an issue of catalogue size, which in the past was significantly larger for Spotify. But yeah, if offline music playback is what you seek Google Music and Pandora are there.
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No great deal. Wearify is Spotify on Wear OS.
️Doesn’t support offline playback. Not sure why it t exists at all. And yes, I just checked.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:
Spotify might make some move since its a well requested feature
It was not available in Tizen nor in Garmin for a long time. But meanwhile it’s working there.
I think there will be a full featured spotify app in wear os too in the future.
Google is not interested in developing such an app. There is play music.
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@NickK said in Suunto 7:
Doesn’t support offline playback. Not sure why it t exists at all.
I think that most of the people don’t leave their house without a smartphone. And in my smartphone there is Spotify with all features. My smartwatch is only the backend to manage the songs and adjust the volume.
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here is an interesting subject https://forum.xda-developers.com/wear-os/development/app-spotify-lite-scaled-standalone-wear-t3815680
The complete app is supposed to be able to download offline ? Do I undestand correctly?
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@pilleus Well, then you don’t need any apps at all and can simply use Wear OS media controls, which handle everything including volume and even show the artwork!
For me offline playback is the feature. My phone stays at home if I’m running in the neighborhood and in the car when I’m in local parks and/or trails. I think I was leaving it at the hotel even when I was running in foreign countries. Yeah, that’s why offline maps are nice to have too!
Personally, I never really got into Spotify, so can’t care less. Between Pandora to discover new stuff based on my arguably non elitist tastes and Google Music subscription, I’m covered.
But people who are on Amazon Music, Spotify, Deezer and rest should be made aware…
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos You understand it correctly. Some poor soul took an Android app, knocked and filed away a few protrusions, pressed it down to size and called it Wear OS ready. I’m not sure I want to sideload this abomination on a watch though
Spotify made it to Garmin after a while. I think a full app was on Samsung watches? It’s not coming to Apple Watch because they have major disagreements with Apple, not to mention serious competition. But maybe Google will be different?
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:
Google play music that has DRM will “damage” about 22% the battery per hour , connected to BT earphones. Gplay music noDRM about 10-18%?
Is that so? Because that’s a fairly sad number. Basically 4 hours with GPS and music (closer to 4-5 hours non-DRM). I think my Adidas Smart Run, Rest In Peace, from 2013 lasted as much.
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@NickK yes I think that is correct as of hour to what I get. I will test more and tell you.
I am not sure if its the app that consumes so I want to also test plain mp3.
FYI for all here. We forgot Mp3 but there is a little nasty hack here. There is an offifcial app that can download from Gplay music DRM free mp3s. PM only this
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Todays run with Google Play music downloaded offline
I run a bit more than 2 and a half hours.
Battery estimation is at 5.5h with this setup.
BT on
WIfi on
Always on Screen on
Some flickering to check maps and quite a few pauses / laps
Touch on
Music controls onThe music should not be DRM as it was my own composed mysic that I have uploaded. However, looking at the filesystem of the watch I could not find any real mp3’s to open them with another app so this is suspicious.
Also with DRM mysic I dont think this would be so much as of an estimate.
I hope ti helps.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos it’s possible to configure this settings per sport profile or this settings apply globally?
I have another question: Did you try to use suunto 7 to run indoors? How exact it is?
thx
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@jorgefd78 nope I have not tried that. Also not possible to configure “battery” modes per sport. However, you can easily turns tones off on though and some other settings in realtime during the activity.
That said you knwo you can exit the recording app and do what you like with it.
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@jorgefd78 said in Suunto 7:
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos it’s possible to configure this settings per sport profile or this settings apply globally?
I have another question: Did you try to use suunto 7 to run indoors? How exact it is?
thx
I will do a short run indoors today and let you know, I will compare to Stryd, S9 and S7.
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I want to test this watch ASAP to see how works and if it fits in my daily sports. The lack of stryd is a huge milestone for me.
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It would be great to have a thread with useful WearOS apps for the Suunto 7.
In this topic there was the app “Instruments” from appfour which is a bundle of helpful instruments (GPS, altimeter, speedometer, stopwatch, compass) - - > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfour.wearinstruments
With these installed instruments e. g. a widget with sunrise/sunset is available for watchfaces with customizable complications.
Here in the screenshot the upper right widget (now, after sunset the time of the sunrise is at the top, after sunrise the time of sunset is at the top):
There are special watchfaces for the Qualcomm 3100 chip in the play store.
And I think there are more useful tips out there amongst the Suunto 7 users.
https://www.instagram.com/moves.are.life/
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It would be great to have a thread with useful WearOS apps for the Suunto 7.
Feel free to launch it
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@pilleus how can you find those “decomposing” watchfaces?
I think the “decomposing” was the term I learned but if you have another sure.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:
@pilleus how can you find those “decomposing” watchfaces?
I think the “decomposing” was the term I learned but if you have another sure.
I found a discussion in the Google developer forum about the 3100 watch faces. I didn’t understand all the facts about the needed code to compile these watch faces, but two developers offer these watch faces.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turndapage.classic3100
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turndapage.essential3100
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.ivaniskandar.wear.calico
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I want to test this watch ASAP to see how works and if it fits in my daily sports. The lack of stryd is a huge milestone for me.
The SportyGo app will connect with Stryd and will show power. I did not care much for the app but that is a personal issue. Perhaps, Stryd folks could be convinced to develop WearOS apps, they did develop an AW app that is quite good. I would inquire on their forums.
