{"id":135096,"date":"2021-08-14T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=135096"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:01:54","slug":"spotify-app-for-wear-os-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/smartwatch\/spotify-app-for-wear-os-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify app for Wear OS 2 smartwatches adds offline music and podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spotifys-wear-os-app-will-finally-support-offline-downl-1847472321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced an<\/a>\u00a0update to preload music and podcasts for offline listening on Wear OS 2 smartwatches.<\/p>\n<p>All owners of premium subscriptions should get this opportunity.\u00a0Those who use the service for free will now be able to listen to music in random order (Shuffle mode) while connected to the network.\u00a0Also, free subscribers were given the opportunity to download podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-711x400.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-1080x608.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-776x437.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-299x168.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-1406x791.jpg 1406w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spotify-app-for-Wear-OS-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To save songs, playlists and albums offline, you need to update your smartwatch to the latest version. The &#8220;Download&#8221; icon should appear in the Spotify app.\u00a0So far, this innovation is not available to all users.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Spotify is the only platform to offer offline music on Wear OS.\u00a0This feature was previously available on Google Play Music.\u00a0It is not yet known exactly if YouTube Music will appear on Wear OS 2, but Google noted that this could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has\u00a0announced an\u00a0update to preload music and podcasts for offline listening on Wear OS 2 smartwatches. All owners of premium subscriptions should get this opportunity.\u00a0Those who use the service for free will now be able to listen to music in random order (Shuffle mode) while connected to the network.\u00a0Also, free subscribers were given the opportunity [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/smartwatch\/spotify-app-for-wear-os-2-smartwatches-adds-offline-music-and-podcasts\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":135097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-135096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartwatch","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}