Garmin has rolled out assist for offline YouTube Music on their watches. This lets you obtain music and podcasts from YouTube Music in precisely the identical approach you’ll for Spotify, Amazon Music, and others. Like these, this additionally requires a subscription to these platforms to be able to obtain music.
For these acquainted with Spotify and different platforms on Garmin watches, you’ll discover this mainly the identical. You’ll hyperlink up your music supplier account with the watch, then use WiFi to obtain the music you need to playback, after which you may entry that music anytime (with out mobile or WiFi wanted).
The Necessities:
I figured I’d do a fast walk-through on how you can get setup, because it’s fairly straightforward and easy. First although, you’ll want 4 issues:
1) Garmin Join IQ app put in in your cellphone
2) Garmin Join Cellular app put in in your cellphone
3) Some type of Bluetooth headphones/speaker
4) Appropriate Garmin watch, per beneath
As for which units are appropriate, the total/up to date listing is right here, however mainly it boils right down to:
– Garmin D2 Mach 1 Professional
– Garmin Epix & Epix Professional Sequence
– Garmin Enduro 2 collection
– Garmin Fenix 7 & Fenix 7 Professional Sequence
– Garmin Forerunner 255/255S/265/265 Music, Forerunner 955/965
– Garmin Tactix 7 Sequence
– Garmin Venu 2/2S, 2 Plus, 3/3 Sequence
There’s are a lot of very-much music-capable units that aren’t on the listing (which assist Spotify and others), which is odd to me. Issues just like the Fenix 6 collection, or the Forerunner 945, or, or, or… I requested Garmin why so many lacking units and so they stated “extra units are anticipated to be added submit launch! No set date however I can maintain you posted as I study extra.” So…right here’s to hoping.
Fast Setup Information:
The very first thing you’ll do is set up the YouTube Music Join IQ app to your watch. This requires you crack open the Garmin Join IQ retailer.
1) Open the Garmin Join IQ App, and guarantee your watch is chosen within the decrease proper nook (particularly if in case you have one other Garmin machine, like an Edge biking pc). You’ll seemingly see the YouTube Music app on the homepage:
2) For those who don’t see the YouTube Music app on the homepage, merely seek for it. As soon as opened, faucet to put in it. Additionally faucet ‘Enable’ to grant permissions.
3) The set up will take a number of seconds to your watch, after which you’ll be proven a web page that signifies its put in, and to proceed setup:
4) In your cellphone, it’ll open up a webpage by way of Garmin Join. If Garmin Join wasn’t opened on the time, re-open Garmin Join, after which in your watch (if you happen to received an error), merely re-open the Music app, and it’ll immediate this time.
5) Enter the code in your watch, within the kind above, after which tappity faucet by the linking settlement above.
With that, you’re prepared to start out utilizing it:
Downloading and Enjoying Music:
1) In your watch it’ll have seemingly opened up the app, however simply in case it didn’t, you may scroll down in your widget glances to seek out it:
2) After you have, you’ll end up right here:
3) You’ll be able to open ‘Library’ to see issues in your library (stuff you’ve beforehand saved in your YouTube Music app in your cellphone), or hit ‘Music’ to see extra common music suggestions, like exercise play lists. Podcasts is for…effectively..podcasts. Right here’s the Exercise suggestions:
4) In my case, if I choose Podcast, I’ll see the podcasts that I’ve received, and even select to obtain a given episode or a complete collection:
5) The identical is true for different music playlists too, which I can then choose to obtain.
6) When you’ve chosen belongings you need to obtain, it’ll go seek for WiFi (networks you’ve beforehand setup):
7) And from there, it’ll start downloading them:
8) As soon as downloaded, you may select any music playlist (or podcast) to playback, which can use your paired Bluetooth headphones:
9) As with earlier than, you may play/pause/skip/again/shuffle/repeat as you see match from the menus.
All of this matches how different Garmin watch-enabled music sources work as we speak.
Wrap-up:
Finally, I’m kinda shocked to see this occur. I bear in mind many a few years in the past, listening to this was within the works, however presumed it will definitely received canned when Google determined to make a stronger push for music on their very own/companion units. Maybe that was the case, or maybe now somebody within the YouTube Music division determined that eternally subscription income is value greater than one-time {hardware} income. Or, that it was extra more likely to get subscription income versus product income. Both approach, it’s good to see!
As for different music sources, many individuals have in fact requested for Apple Music. Take into account, this isn’t actually Garmin’s selection right here. Garmin has repeatedly stated they’d be more than pleased to assist Apple Music on Garmin units, however I’m going to guess Apple isn’t precisely speeding to assist out a competitor right here. In the identical approach that Garmin has stated they’d be completely happy to sync in Peloton exercises natively to Garmin Join. If and when these varieties of issues occur, that’s going to be on the initiation of the likes of Apple or Peloton, slightly than Garmin.
Nonetheless, as this week proved with YouTube Music…by no means say by no means.
With that – thanks for studying
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