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Advance Pandora songs from Gear while jogging

I have the Gear and SN3. I want to be jogging and advance the next Pandora song from the Gear if possible...
I downloaded Media Remote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appshroom.mediaremote
But this just does as the media controller on the device and does not advance Pandora...
Anyone able to do this?

parcou said:
I have the Gear and SN3. I want to be jogging and advance the next Pandora song from the Gear if possible...
I downloaded Media Remote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appshroom.mediaremote
But this just does as the media controller on the device and does not advance Pandora...
Anyone able to do this?
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I have not tried it with Pandora, but when I play Google Play Music on my Note 3 and use Media Controller on my Gear it allows me to skip tracks. Also I used Media Controller with Doggcatcher on my Note 3. The trick for me was to load those up on the phone first and then Media Controller seems to use whatever the active app is. Not sure if it would work with Pandora but I'm guessing it would be the same.

I just tried the Pandora app with the Media controller and it works just fine.
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ArborRes said:
I just tried the Pandora app with the Media controller and it works just fine.
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Well I did but accidentally and dont know the combination yet how I did it. So if I have Pandora open and then open MC on Gear when I hit forward it opens my default app "Player Pro" and pauses Pandora...
Somehow I end up with PlayPro showing paused in notification area and now Pandora advances... How dont know how I got there...

Can I control Google Music with Galaxy Gear?

I want to control Google Music with my galaxy gear. I have stock Galaxy S4 and stock Galaxy Gear.

amilgax said:
I want to control Google Music with my galaxy gear. I have stock Galaxy S4 and stock Galaxy Gear.
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Yes, just open the app and use the media controls.

From what I've found, whatever music player is currently running on your device at the time, the media controls on the Gear will control it,
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dkb218 said:
From what I've found, whatever music player is currently running on your device at the time, the media controls on the Gear will control it,
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Can agree with the above, have used MX player, Spotify, Google music and now stock samsung player. All works good.

You can even control YouTube and other video players

dkb218 said:
From what I've found, whatever music player is currently running on your device at the time, the media controls on the Gear will control it,
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This. Can confirm.

Not for me. Just tried it on Google Music and it turned on the stock music player and started playing from the first song in my files.

tony yayo said:
Not for me. Just tried it on Google Music and it turned on the stock music player and started playing from the first song in my files.
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Same experience here.

It works when the player is actually playing something. If you pause then when you unpause it will use whatever default player you have, but it will work as long as you don't stop playing. Switching songs will work tho
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tony yayo said:
Not for me. Just tried it on Google Music and it turned on the stock music player and started playing from the first song in my files.
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You have to make sure that the player you want to control is the only one active on your device. If you just listened to Google All Access and want to control Poweramp, make sure All Access is closed all the way.

dkb218 said:
You have to make sure that the player you want to control is the only one active on your device. If you just listened to Google All Access and want to control Poweramp, make sure All Access is closed all the way.
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I only use google. Never used any of the other players.

Not anymore
I used to be able to control Google Play Music from the media controller however, after a firmware update at the end of Jan it no longer works. If I try to skip track it opens the Samsung music player and starts playing that. Annoying as this was one of the functions I really wanted, skip tracks whilst walking without having to dig your device out.

[Q] Controlling Music From Watch - How?

I can't seem to figure out how to control music playing on my phone from my watch (using Google Music phone app). Is something supposed to pop up when I play music on my phone? I don't see an "app" on the watch that controls this. Note that I'm using a Note 3.
What am I missing?

Tones2 said:
I can't seem to figure out how to control music playing on my phone from my watch (using Google Music phone app). Is something supposed to pop up when I play music on my phone? I don't see an "app" on the watch that controls this. Note that I'm using a Note 3.
What am I missing?
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You get card of current song and if u swipe to left u can advance and swipe to right one more time to stop I believe.
Ian B

Actually I figured this out. You have to start the playback on the phone first. Then you get a notification that let's you pause / play, Swipe to the left and you next and once more to the left you get previous, but that is the extent of the stock music control. This worked with EVERY music player I have, not just Google stock Music player.
You can also control volume if you get the Wear Volume app - it appears as an additional notification card under the main music notification. And here is also something that is WAY cool - if you download musiXmatch app, you can scroll down and choose to display scrolling LYRICS to the current song!! I can't get BOTH volume AND lyrics to work at the same time however. Note the Volume works with any music app you choose in it's settings. However, musiXmatch only works with Google Play Music player.

There are also some voice controls to start playback. Such as OK Google, play me some music (that will start an "I'm feeling lucky" shuffle). OK Google, Play Some *artist name* . there are some others, but I use those two often.
Not sure if it matters, but this is on an HTC One M7, stock 4.4.2 Sense 6, Google Play Music.

I've just finished developing my Wear Music Controller app to solve this problem for me:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barkside.music
You can play/pause/next/prev/stop/vol-up/vol-down from your watch! Works with all music apps. Let me know what you think!

Disable music control

Someone know if I can or how to disable the music control card on the watch? It's covering info on my endomondo widget and the music control card is useless since I can skip/pause from my earphone buttons....
Thanks

Steve.99 said:
Someone know if I can or how to disable the music control card on the watch? It's covering info on my endomondo widget and the music control card is useless since I can skip/pause from my earphone buttons....
Thanks
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Have you tried adding the music app to the 'Mute app notifications' settings in wear app on phone

Brendo said:
Have you tried adding the music app to the 'Mute app notifications' settings in wear app on phone
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Yes I tried but it is not working

True. No luck here

OK I have found a way to kinda do what I want but I find it really annoying that I cannot dismiss the music control card or better just disable it.
So my work around is to copy and paste my songs I want to listen in a folder and play them with ES File Explorer. This app is probably not recognized as a music player so I can do my workout with no card covering half my stats.

[Q] Is there a way to control music player from the watch ?

Hi all,
I have not been able to find any way to control the Google Music or any other application from the watch. I was expecting not being able only to launch the music application from it, but also to control the volume or to switch the song.
I have found in Google Play Store applications like this (trial and then allow you to purchase the license):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barkside.music
If there is no native way to do this, i really cannot understand as i see this one of the most logical applications to use from the watch.
Cheers.

You can play, pause, skip forward and back tracks with the Google Play Music app and Android Wear directly.
When playing music it should automatically display on the watch.
If not, check and make sure you haven't muted the app.

Music Boss works for most players.

nxt said:
You can play, pause, skip forward and back tracks with the Google Play Music app and Android Wear directly.
When playing music it should automatically display on the watch.
If not, check and make sure you haven't muted the app.
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I haven't muted the application. The strange thing is that just in the moment i hit the play button from the phone (Sony Xperia Z3 with Android KitKat 4.4.4) the notification for the music appears, but hides immediately. Maybe its an issue from my phone.
Thank you very much for the quick answer .

BM226 said:
Music Boss works for most players.
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Thank you, i will try to continue searching the reason why the Google Music default notification disappears immediately, but if not, i may try Music Boss.

requiem2es said:
Thank you, i will try to continue searching the reason why the Google Music default notification disappears immediately, but if not, i may try Music Boss.
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I'm trying to determine the benefit of Music Boss. I have used it with the 3 main audio apps I tend to use, all of which notify to my watch (TuneIn Pro, Sirius, and Google Play Music). They are set up in Music Boss as well. So when any of them are playing, I have two different cards - one for the app itself and one for Music Boss. I can't seem to see how Music Boss gives offers anything beyond the separate apps, other than a common interface. Can anyone with more experience using this app tell me what i'm missing? Thanks!

same here, I found that android wear supports quite a few music apps out-of-the-box.
like vanilla music - they havent released a wear-related update afaik, but when I play music with the app it shows up as a card on my phone with play-pause and I can swipe into a next-previous-vol up-vol down screen

Sony Walkman, Google Music and Spotify works on my watch. No need for Music Boss or anything. Phone is Z2.
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I finally found the problem. Sony Xperia has a free application called SmartKey:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.extras.liveware.extension.smartkey
With this application it is possible to assign extra functions to the button to answer calls in the headphones.
Anyway, this application was interfering with the SmartWatch option to show the controls in the watch graphic interface. Removing it or disabling it solves the problem.
Thank you very much for the help .