Hi, I recently got a new S7 (very much love it) and when setting it up I had 'Automatically Add > Recent Music' ticked, which must be the default, the problem is I have absolutely tons of music on my iPhone and I think it went through and attempted to add all of that to my watch in some way unless I'm getting the wrong end of the stick.
I'll explain the issue I have which might narrow it down:
- On the AW Music app I can click 'On iPhone' when connected to it and browse the full collection and then trigger my phone to play my selection via my watch or use it to play with headphones connected to my watch = great, works well.
- I looked in the Watch app on my iPhone and saw that 'Recent Music' was ticked to be automatically added so I unticked this.
- Via the Watch app on my iPhone, I've selected 5 albums as a starter to add to my watch for offline, will mainly just be uptempo workout related bits that I hoped would be available and easy to find on the watch.
- If I open the Music app the watch I can see my 5 albums appear at the bottom with thumbnails under Library and can play these offline, great, works well.
- If I click 'Library' though on the Music app on my watch, this is what confuses me, it's basically just a replica of what I have on my iPhone but missing most thumbnails, nothing can play. My guess is all of those got added via the 'Automatically Add' routine but didnt sync properly because they're just too big / there's too much to do. Am I wrong or should it be a replica of my iPhone library?
If I was to guess a better UI I would have 5 or so recent additions as the thumbnails (similar to what I see) and then Library would show all offline downloaded music on the watch. If that's the case of what it is, how do I go about removing the hundreds of dead items I currently have in there without resorting to a full watch reset
I've tried leaving it on the charger and near my iPhone in the hope it would sort itself out but all it's been able to do is add a few more thumbnails, might have to leave it for days at this rate..
In general I find the Apple Music app to be one of the worst from Apple, I wish they would make it easier to manage a collection of music and not so buggy with thumbnails and syncing and more importantly I wish they had a separate app for their Apple Music streaming service. Currently I'm not a subscriber to the streaming version as I hate the all or nothing integration of it with my local files.
I'll explain the issue I have which might narrow it down:
- On the AW Music app I can click 'On iPhone' when connected to it and browse the full collection and then trigger my phone to play my selection via my watch or use it to play with headphones connected to my watch = great, works well.
- I looked in the Watch app on my iPhone and saw that 'Recent Music' was ticked to be automatically added so I unticked this.
- Via the Watch app on my iPhone, I've selected 5 albums as a starter to add to my watch for offline, will mainly just be uptempo workout related bits that I hoped would be available and easy to find on the watch.
- If I open the Music app the watch I can see my 5 albums appear at the bottom with thumbnails under Library and can play these offline, great, works well.
- If I click 'Library' though on the Music app on my watch, this is what confuses me, it's basically just a replica of what I have on my iPhone but missing most thumbnails, nothing can play. My guess is all of those got added via the 'Automatically Add' routine but didnt sync properly because they're just too big / there's too much to do. Am I wrong or should it be a replica of my iPhone library?
If I was to guess a better UI I would have 5 or so recent additions as the thumbnails (similar to what I see) and then Library would show all offline downloaded music on the watch. If that's the case of what it is, how do I go about removing the hundreds of dead items I currently have in there without resorting to a full watch reset
I've tried leaving it on the charger and near my iPhone in the hope it would sort itself out but all it's been able to do is add a few more thumbnails, might have to leave it for days at this rate..In general I find the Apple Music app to be one of the worst from Apple, I wish they would make it easier to manage a collection of music and not so buggy with thumbnails and syncing and more importantly I wish they had a separate app for their Apple Music streaming service. Currently I'm not a subscriber to the streaming version as I hate the all or nothing integration of it with my local files.