How To Set Up Your Fitbit Ionic

Similar that one guy at the political party who just can't take a hint - probably the one whipping out the guitar for a 1am rendition of Wonderwall - the smartphone is increasingly looking like a nuisance to our wearables. Just we're slowly breaking free, and having music stored on our smartwatches and fettle trackers means one less reason to take the telephone forth for the ride.

There are two ways to heed to music on the Fitbit Ionic: third-party apps or loading your music direct through Fitbit's software. If you're in the United states, Pandora Plus and Premium users volition be able to sync their stations to the sentry. For those of you in Europe, well, nosotros still don't actually know, and it might be a petty longer before Fitbit secures a partner.

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Merely if you're non a Pandora user, or live in Europe, fear not, because yous tin just load on your music files to the Ionic. At that place's 2.5GB of space for you to fill with your favorite tunes, and we're going to explicate how.

Note that you'll need the music files themselves on your computer; you tin't merely sync your Spotify playlists, for example, though we hope that will 1 twenty-four hour period change.

Here's how to get music running on your Ionic.

ane. Have your music ready

Fitbit'south offline playback is express to working with iTunes or Windows Media playlists, so y'all won't be able to just pick private tracks from the Fitbit Connect. Before you do anything else, brand certain you have some playlists made and ready to go.

2. Get Fitbit Connect

To transfer music, you lot need to download an actual programme on your actual desktop calculator. Yup. Setting upwards and using any Fitbit device can all be done with the smartphone app, so there's rarely a demand for Fitbit to nudge yous towards the figurer. But you'll need to download Fitbit Connect, Fitbit's desktop software, which you can notice here.

Side note: You can also use Connect to sync your Fitbit tracker with your account, or set upwards a new device.

Once y'all've downloaded it, boot information technology up and click the 'Manage my Music' button. You can likewise jump straight to the music manager from the Fitbit toolbar app.

iii. Go the Ionic and calculator talking the same linguistic communication

Yous tin merely transfer music to the Ionic if it's sharing the same Wi-Fi network as your computer. Annoyingly, you tin't do a simple drag-and-driblet by plugging it in.

Chances are y'all probably did this when yous set upwards the Ionic, merely if yous didn't, yous'll need to go into the smartphone app, tap on your Ionic device, and scroll down to Wi-Fi Settings. This volition allow you add together a new network, and as well show all of the Ionic's saved networks, in example you want to run into what it's already defaulting to.

Ok, done that? First-class.

iv. Now pair them

In one case both the Ionic and computer are on the same network, they can talk. Next yous need to open up the music app on the Ionic - that's the royal one - and then y'all need to scroll down and hit the 'Transfer Music' button. You as well need to hit the 'Manage my Music' button on the desktop Connect app. Yous'll then see a spinning wheel as it tries to connect; once it's ready, it'll display a 'Set up to Transfer' message. One time the two are talking, the watch will change to tell you there's a transfer in procedure, and the desktop app will evidence you your music catalogue.

5. Choose your playlists

On the Connect app you should be met with a list of your Windows Media/iTunes playlists. Yous tin click on them to meet what tracks are in each, merely you lot can't edit them from Connect, pregnant you'll demand to sync them in their entirety, or non at all.

Doing that is every bit unproblematic as just hit the circle so that information technology shows the imperial tick, at which bespeak Connect volition start automatically syncing. Forth the top yous'll come across a bar segmented into different colors to show you how much space is taken upwards by your offline music (purple) and Pandora stations (blue).

Once you're done, equally it says 'Transfer Complete' along the bottom, yous tin safely hit 'End Now' on the Ionic screen.

6. Pair some headphones and get listening

If you lot did everything right, the Ionic music app should at present show you a listing of your saved playlists. Simply tap on one and cull whatsoever track to play, or hit 'Shuffle All' for a lucky dip mega mix of all your music.

Of course, you need to pair some headphones as well. You lot tin do this by going into Settings, scrolling down to Bluetooth and hitting 'New Device'. Make sure your headphones are in pairing mode. Fitbit has launched its Flyer headphones in time for the Ionic, only the Ionic volition pair with whatsoever other Bluetooth headphones equally well.

If you've paired multiple headphones to the watch, you can tap the 3-dot icon in the peak left of the screen when listening to a track and so tapping the 'Device…' push button. Scroll downwardly to audio output and yous can choose which headphones you want to employ.

Congratulations. You're now listening to music on your Fitbit Ionic. Who needs smartphones anyway?

The Pandora route

If y'all're in the U.s. y'all take the option of Pandora, but only if you're on the paid subscription. To get them working together, you need to…

Pair via the Fitbit app

Become into the Fitbit smartphone app, tap on the Ionic and then hit 'Apps'. If it'southward non already, install it to the Ionic by hitting the lilliputian Install button on the right.

Connect your account and get grooving

And so go dorsum to the Ionic settings page and tap 'Media'. Under Services, select Pandora, then follow the instructions to log into your Pandora account. Once paired, you can tell Fitbit to either auto-sync your three most played Pandora stations, or choose from pop workout stations.