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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by pm90 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:01PM (#14866521)
You can, but only using the Apple Music app. I've asked Google Play music repeatedly to have something similar on the watch, but they don't seem to care. Like you, I wanted to have ONLY my watch while running (I like to minimize any external clothing/devices while doing so).

So what I do now is use an armband as a place to keep my iPhone while running or exercising. The watch DOES let you seek forward/back once you have any music app playing (this works for podcasts as well) so effectively, I use the watch as a convenient "controller" for my iPhone.

Protip if you're oncall/devops: I LOVE the watch when running because I can quickly acknowledge pages from PagerDuty since you can scribble and send text right from the watch itself. Once ack'd, I finish my run and get back to handling the page

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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by Analemma_ on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:25PM (#14866784)
Overcast can also play podcasts from the Watch without the phone. It's annoyingly slow to transfer, but it works.

Get it now, though. The developer has said the feature was a mistake to implement and is a pain in the ass to maintain, so it might be going away soon.

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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by Cenk on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:32PM (#14866869)
It’s going to be removed in Watch OS 4: https://twitter.com/OvercastFM/status/890236178238230533
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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by Analemma_ on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:44PM (#14867647)
Urg, that's unfortunate. This is totally baffling, Overcast is literally the only third-party app I use on my Watch, and it seems to be one of the only apps that was serious about Watch support. With watchOS struggling with dev support, you'd think Apple would be tripping over themselves to help out the few devs who actually use it.
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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by jandrese on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:59PM (#14867173)
I guess, but the watch is still 7 times more expensive than the shuffle. It does do Bluetooth through, so that's nice. A bit extravagant for someone who is just looking for a music player for their workout.
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Re:Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle by pm90 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:16PM (#14868449)
But its more than just a music player. The workout tracker is absolutely amazing. I've used it to accurately track my running and swimming and I just love how easy to use it is.
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