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New audio/music features on FR230 - nice !

For those wondering how these work, well I've found they work pretty well.

- Music : you can choose the music app you want to use via GCM and then the watch can play/pause, choose next/previous as well as control the volume. This is accessible while you're running but might be a bit fiddly to get to. If you're using a Bluetooth headphone it will be easier to use its buttons to control the music.

- Audio feedback : when you hit the lap bottom (possibly Autolap, haven't tried) you get the lap number and the actual time in minutes and seconds. If you're listening to music it will be faded automatically. Works well and reminds me what the Nike app did.

Hopefully they will come to the other recent Garmin watches like the FR920 and Fenix3...

0 Sergey_Kessel over 9 years ago

Hi,
Breif question - how is music control done?
How you do it (which buttons - I wonder how it is done without interfering with workout control and screen changes, for example).

0 iLuvGadgets over 9 years ago

While doing an activity, long press the up button. You'll see that a menu appears. Search for Music Control and voilà. You can play/pause, change tracks and with a long press again on the up button, you can volume up/down.
Press the lap key to return to your normal activities screens.

0 Sergey_Kessel over 9 years ago

While doing an activity, long press the up button. You'll see that a menu appears. Search for Music Control and voilà. You can play/pause, change tracks and with a long press again on the up button, you can volume up/down.
Press the lap key to return to your normal activities screens.

Oh, yes, exactly the Garmin way :)

Steps are very similar to the ones that you need to do to bring up the weather screen on Edge 520.
In other words - extremely user unfriendly (and I assume one would use music control more often then weather on the bike device).

Thanks anyway :)

0 webvan over 9 years ago

Well to be fair there aren't that many ways they could do it, possibly with a direct access with a long press on up or down...

Whatever way it's implemented you'll be better off using the buttons of your BT headset anyway.

0 iLuvGadgets over 9 years ago

I never run listening to music.
But lately I've been experimenting using the cellphone's speaker, so in this case it's really useful to use the music control instead of fumbling around my spibelt to change tracks or adjust volume.
And yes, if you wear BT headphones or a wired one that you can make/receive calls then it's a no brainer to just use the buttons there.