Suunto Race Music

Brad_Olwin

@brechtvb I don’t want and don’t need music on my watches. I know some want music. So it is a personal preference and not a deficit as far as I am concerned.

brechtvb

@Brad_Olwin Other people do, the Suunto Run was launched with music app, that shows users require this.

raven

@Brad_Olwin said in Suunto Race Music:

@brechtvb I don’t want and don’t need music on my watches. I know some want music. So it is a personal preference and not a deficit as far as I am concerned.

I do like the option of music but forget that for a moment.

If a new person looks at Suunto’s lineup, particularly the Run versus the Race S / Race, then it makes sense that the more expensive option includes the features of the cheaper option. Garmin released new Forerunner 970 and 570 models today. It will be hilarious if I am wrong, but I don’t expect the 570 to have features that the 970 does not. While some minor elements of UI interface might not be noticed, my contention is the ability to play music is a feature a significant number of people will notice. Having it on the Run but not Race / Race S looks weird from that point of view, regardless if you personally would not use that feature.

SODIUM

For me, it’s not necessary at all.

Brad_Olwin

@raven I suspect it will come to future watches but I was responding to @brechtvb who said this feature is missing. Suunto does provide music storage with specific headphones. My point is not all want music on a watch. I realize some do.

Stefano M64

@Brad_Olwin said in Suunto Race Music:

@brechtvb I don’t want and don’t need music on my watches. I know some want music. So it is a personal preference and not a deficit as far as I am concerned.

I agree. It could be eventually a nice addition, but only after all the known bugs have been solved and more useful sport related features added. I’m somehow scared that implementing the ability to transfer, store and play music could interfere with all the other most important functions, as recording an activity, causing other new bugs.

Kraisun Tunta

@brechtvb said in Suunto Race Music:

@Brad_Olwin Other people do, the Suunto Run was launched with music app, that shows users require this.

Of course, if we compare and choose, it will get the lowest score when comparing the price with what we get.

JANTIKAINEN

I have 26 Gb of free storage in my Race when all the map areas I need are downloaded.
I would be more than happy to take the ability to download and play mp3’s to/from the watch.

isazi

@JANTIKAINEN I bet it’s not storage, but the chipset that cannot play music

brechtvb

@isazi hello, I don’t follow that, Bluetooth is available, it streams digitally to earbuds, the earbuds actuate a small speaker in your earbud. The digital to analog conversion happens in your earbud.

2b2bff

@brechtvb yeah, but the earbuds do not decode mp3-files but some AAC stream or similar. So the watch has to decode MP3, convert it into an audio stream that it has to transmit to the earbuds… yeah you can do all this in software, but it is way better if the SoC can do it…

That said, I think I read that the SoC is the same as in Garmin watches. Garmin does it, so possibly the SoC is capable of doing this…