Streaming Music on Apple Watch over LTE

[SamGabbay]

UPDATE: Just got approved and now available for Get on the App Store!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundly-music-player/id1296630973?ls=1&mt=8

So I did it...

Soundcloud on LTE playing music from my Likes.

What do you guys think?

Sam

 

[nippyjun]

how did you do that?

 

[SamGabbay]

how did you do that?

I built an app to do it!

Sam

 

[nippyjun]

Will this be submitted to Apple?

 

[SamGabbay]

Will this be submitted to Apple?

Depends what kind of feedback I get. Still a little more work to do. Granted this did take me just a day...

Here are some screenshots.

 

[patferrari]

Depends what kind of feedback I get. Still a little more work to do. Granted this did take me just a day...

Here are some screenshots.

should make it so i can test it out for yah

 

[mcvaughan]

So I did it...

Soundcloud on LTE playing music from my Likes.

What do you guys think?

Sam

Nice work!

 

[richard371]

Is that paying through the watch speaker?

 

[southerndoc]

I think I saw something where Pandora worked over LTE on the Apple Watch. I'm sure it eats the battery life though. Even standby eats battery life with LTE active.

 

[PCtoMAC1]

Can you stream iHeart Radio without your phone?

 

[nippyjun]

Currently there are no stand alone apps to stream music without the phone.

 

[SamGabbay]

Here’s an update.

 

[SamGabbay]

Submitted to Apple. PM me if interested in beta testing.

Sam

 

[Mansu944]

Submitted to Apple. Any takers for Beta Testers?

Sam

Sure. I’ll try it.

 

[SamGabbay]

Update: Looks like Apple rejected the app due to Copycat functionality. Will be appealing this...

 

[JoEw]

Can you do a battery life test?

 

[Senfinger]

Wondering how long it will take for Apple to allow all the third party over their Apple Music Subscription = (

 

[JoEw]

Update: Looks like Apple rejected the app due to Copycat functionality. Will be appealing this...

Wow.. if Apple is locking down the watch this much that's very disappointing.

 

[Mansu944]

Update: Looks like Apple rejected the app due to Copycat functionality. Will be appealing this...

Damnit

 

[iThink Apple]

Keep us posted! Very interesting

 

[SamGabbay]

Can you do a battery life test?

Already done. Went to the gym and lost ~15% over the course of 2 hours. Keep in mind, was on LTE and no phone connected. Also.. Was doing a workout

Wondering how long it will take for Apple to allow all the third party over their Apple Music Subscription = (

Wondering if they rejected it because of they want to be the only app streaming music on the watch... Reasons for rejection were very vague.

Damnit

I know...

Keep us posted! Very interesting

I will. If I don't hear back by Monday, I'll make the code available on GitHub. Power to the people.

Sam

 

[FoxD]

Does it play through the Watch speaker? Dying to find a way to do that... thanks

 

[SamGabbay]

Does it play through the Watch speaker? Dying to find a way to do that... thanks

Currently there is no way to play long audio clips through the Apple Watch speaker while having it run in the background. This app takes advantage of the "Now Playing" screen so a user can skip ahead to the next song. That would not be possible using the method of playing via the speaker.

Sam

 

[iThink Apple]

I really hope that you will soon be able to stream radios through LTE....Like TuneIn, SimpleRadio....etc..

 

[SamGabbay]

Update: Apple got back to me today advising me that they are looking into it. I'm giving them until the end of the day.

Sam