Last year, Waze successfully integrated Spotify directly into its navigation app. Now, the company is building a more full-featured audio player.
The Waze Audio Player is launching for beta-testers Monday and rolls out more widely to all Waze users on Nov. 14. The feature allows drivers to listen to and browse music, audiobooks, radio, and podcasts without ever leaving the popular traffic app.
Step 1: Head over to your Spotify and then tap on Your Library. Step 2: Next tap on your Settings gear icon which is to your top right hand corner. Step 3: Alright. Now scroll down until you see Social, then enable Waze navigation. Always know what’s happening on the road with Waze. Even if you know the way, Waze tells you about traffic, construction, police, crashes, and more in real-time. If traffic is bad on your route, Waze will change it to save you time. See what’s happening - Alerts about traffic, police, hazards and more on your drive Get there faster - Instant routing changes to avoid traffic. That’s why we’ve partnered with Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, to make sure your music and navigation can live in harmony. Today, for the first time, Spotify users on Android. can get Waze started from the Spotify app after having selected music to. 2017-03-15 10:09 AM. No car journey is complete without music. That’s why we’ve partnered with Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, to make sure your music and navigation can live in harmony. Today, for the first time, Spotify users on Android. can get Waze started from the Spotify app after having selected music to play (see image below). Waze is a map and navigation app that includes a community of more than 100 million users around the world who selflessly improve the app on a daily basis. You’ll keep up to date with any road blockage, radars, traffic jams, etc. On the surface – it sounds harmless. The two companies teamed up so that users of the Waze app can listen to Spotify playlists from within the app, and Spotify users can continue to get their Waze navigation instructions while in the music app. Aren’t these people supposed to be driving, and not focusing on using two apps at once on their phone?
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Upon its initial release, the Waze Audio Player will support eight different audio services: Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio, NPR, Scribd, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Spotify.
To work around this, you can force it to use a specific port.Check the box next to “Use specific HTTP port”. Play spotify free through sonos. Additionally, if you don’t have it already, you will need the.Once SWYH is installed and running, right-click on its taskbar icon and click “Settings”.Whenever you start or restart SWYH, it will use a different port for HTTP live streaming.
Adam Fried, head of global partnerships at Waze, gave Mashable an early preview of the audio player and showed off how it seamlessly pulls in Spotify playlists or Pandora's thumbs-up (or down) ratings. To launch the player, users will simply click the big pink 'audio' button on the app's main screen.
The best thing about the Waze Audio Player is that it makes it easier to follow traffic directions while fiddling with audio. Even if you switch over to, say, the Spotify app, Waze keeps a small panel at the top of the screen that shows you the next direction — so you never lose track of where you're driving.
The player will launch with the eight previously mentioned audio-streaming services, but more will likely be added over time, thanks to the new Waze Audio Kit for developers. This will make it easier for streaming services to integrate with the player.
If this announcement sounds eerily familiar that's because it is. Google Maps, operated by Waze's parent company Alphabet, recently brought music-streaming integration into its app earlier this year.
For those using Waze on CarPlay or Android Auto, the new player won't work through that, but Fried said it hopefully will soon.
Waze App Spotify
You can sign up for the Waze Beta Community to start using the new player while slogging through your morning commute. Or wait a few weeks until the public release.
Waze Navigation App Gps
As far as Android Auto users are concerned, choosing a navigation app comes down to just two different choices, both of them belonging to Google.
Waze and Google Maps are without a doubt the most popular navigation tools in the world of Android Auto, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is always working exactly as expected.
More recently, Waze has started experiencing a new GPS problem, and I noticed the same behavior in my car too. What happens is that Waze sometimes loses tracking, which means that it can no longer determine my location, therefore I’m missing out on navigation instructions while driving.
Most often, the first sign that something goes wrong is that Waze no longer updates your location, and while you’re still in motion, the app keeps the car icon in the same point as if you’re no longer moving.
Some people on reddit claim that the whole thing gets even worse at certain points, with Waze mapping data displayed zoomed in up to a point where nothing can be seen. The location cannot be determined either, and the app fails to follow their car on the map.
At this point, it’s pretty difficult to tell what’s causing all the problems, but as other users noticed, the whole thing started happening recently, so I’m guessing that one of the latest updates breaks down something in the app.
There’s no workaround that does the trick for everybody, albeit I noticed that I can temporarily fix the GPS tracking issue with a solution that I also used in the past when hitting similar problems. What I did was switch from Waze to Google Maps for a second and then switch back to Waze on Android Auto, with the app then resetting your location and correctly determining where you are.
It remains to be seen if the whole thing gets a fix anytime soon, but hopefully Google is looking into this and is preparing a fix for the affected users.
More recently, Waze has started experiencing a new GPS problem, and I noticed the same behavior in my car too. What happens is that Waze sometimes loses tracking, which means that it can no longer determine my location, therefore I’m missing out on navigation instructions while driving.
Most often, the first sign that something goes wrong is that Waze no longer updates your location, and while you’re still in motion, the app keeps the car icon in the same point as if you’re no longer moving.
Some people on reddit claim that the whole thing gets even worse at certain points, with Waze mapping data displayed zoomed in up to a point where nothing can be seen. The location cannot be determined either, and the app fails to follow their car on the map.
At this point, it’s pretty difficult to tell what’s causing all the problems, but as other users noticed, the whole thing started happening recently, so I’m guessing that one of the latest updates breaks down something in the app.
There’s no workaround that does the trick for everybody, albeit I noticed that I can temporarily fix the GPS tracking issue with a solution that I also used in the past when hitting similar problems. What I did was switch from Waze to Google Maps for a second and then switch back to Waze on Android Auto, with the app then resetting your location and correctly determining where you are.
It remains to be seen if the whole thing gets a fix anytime soon, but hopefully Google is looking into this and is preparing a fix for the affected users.