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Spotify without a Smartphone?

Former Member over 4 years ago

Would I be able to use Spotify on my FR945 if I do NOT have a smartphone?

I do have a laptop with garmin express installed, a garmin connect account which i use from the laptop and an internet connection with wifi at home.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

Please... I want some music!!!

0 Birnikos over 4 years ago

Do you have a Spotify premium account ? If so, you can synchronize your music, playlists, podcasts etc directly from your watch within Spotify watch settings.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Birnikos

I do not have a premium account, u but i m happy to get one if i m sure it ll work. If on the other hand i do need a smartphone (which i dont have) to connect account to watch then my premium account would be useless. This is why I am asking the question here.

I actually saw somewhere else that you do need a smartphone for the initial set up of spotify.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

My understaing so far is that it is NOT possible to use Spotify from watch if you do NOT have a smartphone pair. If you are sure of the opposite, pls let me know...

0 snowfree52 over 4 years ago

Yes you can use spotify without your phone, I do it all the time
just need to synch your playlist beforehand and get a pair or bluetooth headphones

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to snowfree52

are you sure?? I mean no phone at all. Ie not only i dont have a smartphone with me but i really have no smartphone at all!!

I did call garmin support US and they said that was not possible.

This would be a game changer for me.

0 snowfree52 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

ah, no phone at all ? not sure ... it synchs via wifi and not via garmin connect on the phone but I have a smartphone ...
Why not just buy the cheapest used smartphone you can find and use it for garmin connect ?

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to snowfree52

That d be an option - but i am a bit fed up with all this technology that does not work...

They re trying to make it every year more complex with more features but also with more bugs.. And I am not speaking just of watches, but also smartphones...

0 snowfree52 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Do you already have a 945 ?

Do you have a pc ?

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to snowfree52

Yes I do have both.

Not very happy with FR945 since i got too many issues.. simply put: everytime there s something that can go wrong, it does....

Today I also missed a very important phone appointment because it was 10 mins behind!! Come on, you re a 700 bucks watch!

Ok sorry, I m going off topic :):)