Symfonium since version 11.0.0 now provides a Wear OS companion app.
Main features
- Stream media from any of the supported providers by proxying via the phone application.
- Download and cache media from any of the supported providers via the phone app to play without the phone when running for example.
- Special secret mode to allow playback on the watch speaker.
Tile
Symfonium offers a Wear Tile that will show the most recent media and a direct button to access the library.
Playback
When in the main playback screen you can use the rotary control to control the volume.
You can also press the volume button, to control the volume and connect directly to your headphones.
Streaming
You can stream media from all your provider by proxying by the phone.
The media can be transcoded by the phone to reduce battery usage. (See Streaming settings below).
Downloads
You can download your media to you watch to be able to play without your phone.
The media will then be available via the downloads section of the library tab.
To download media browse to it via the phone library then:
- Press the download button at the top to download everything (Playlist / Album / Artist)
- Long press any media and press the OK button.
Similarly you can remove downloaded media by long pressing them from the download section and pressing the OK button.
Settings.
Downloads
From here you can configure the download quality of the media, limit downloads to wifi only, manage the download queue when there’s something downloading and quickly remove all downloads.
Streaming
You can configure the media quality when streaming and only allow streaming on Wifi.
Interface
You can configure some interface settings, like feedback or automatically going to home after playback is started.
Developer
Once developer mode is enabled you can enable playback on the watch speaker if your watch have one.
Starting with version 1.1.0 the Disable playback offload option is present. Enable the option is playback stops randomly and only resume when skipping next or previous.
Screenshots
Secret mode
Press 6 times the version number in the settings to enable developer mode and enable new hidden settings.
Once in dev mode, you can enable playback on the watch speaker. (Once the option is enabled, you need to force kill the app then start it again)