I have the Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, and love everything about it except the altimeter (which I'll save for another topic) and the unreliability of the music. I've copied over unprotected mp3's to the watch, and when I start my run I'll set it to play all songs in either a playlist or all songs overall. Randomly (but very frequently) after it ends one song, it'll just stop playing altogether. When I look at the music screen, it'll show the last song that was played, 0:00, and paused. If I click play, nothing happens. If I try to switch to a new song in the Now Playing list, switch to another playlist, or switch to play all songs, nothing happens. It doesn't matter if it's in Shuffle mode or not, it doesn't matter if it's in Repeat All mode or not. It's not an issue with connectivity to the headphones, because I still get notifications on splits, e.g. "Mile 7, 8:34". If it's having issues playing a certain song, then it should be able to recover from that and skip to the next song, not fall into a broken state where it can't play ANY songs.
Most of my runs are 1 to 1.5 hours, and I rarely am able to get through an entire run without the music stopping at some point. The only fix is to stop my run, reboot the watch, start the music again, and then resume my run. I have the latest FW update. This is unacceptable for a $450 watch. Have others run into this issue? Garmin, any FW update on the way that will resolve this?
