Streaming Radio and TV on Your Wrist - Finding, Pinning and Playing Live Channels

On the watch's home screen, tap Streams. The first time, the list is still being put together - the watch shows it loading until the catalog is ready, rather than flashing an empty screen at you. If the catalog was never downloaded, tap Refresh catalog; while it works you'll see Updating streams.., and if the network lets you down, Could not update streams. Check your connection and try again.

Don't see Streams on the home screen at all? Switch on Show Streams in the watch's settings.

Three small buttons sit at the top: Search streams, Filter streams and Sort streams. They stay pinned in place while the channel list scrolls under them, and the first channel is never hidden behind them. Beside them, two small lines count the channels: how many your search and filters leave, over the size of the whole catalog.

• Search - type or speak part of a channel's name.
• Filter - first choose what kind of channel you want: Video, Audio or Own (channels you sent over from the phone). Tap the lit choice again to see everything. Below that, pick a Topic, a Language or one of the Collections. Topics and languages are shown in your own language, with the busiest ones first and the number of channels on each, and the chips wrap onto new lines so every name is readable.
• Sort - Most used (the default: channels you actually play on the watch rise to the top), Name (A-Z), Name (Z-A) or By media type.

The watch remembers your filter and sort order when you leave the screen, restart the app or even reboot the watch.

Narrow things too far and the list says so honestly: No streams match the filter. Clear it to see the whole catalog. One tap on Clear filters removes every narrowing at once - kind, topic, language and collection - and your channels are back.

This is different from an empty catalog. Downloading the catalog again wouldn't help here, so the watch doesn't suggest it.

Tap a channel. A radio station opens in the audio player, a TV channel in the video player. For the time a stream plays, the watch asks for a fast network connection and lets it go again afterwards, so it doesn't drain the battery when you stop.

If the connection can't carry the stream, the watch tells you why instead of just going quiet:

• Connection too slow for this stream. Move closer to Wi-Fi and try again.
• Watch is offline. Reconnect, then try again.
• Connection not verified yet. Playback may stop - try again if it does.

If a station stops sending altogether, the watch stops playback to save the battery and says The stream stopped sending. Playback was stopped to save the battery.

A live stream has no beginning and no end, so where a song would show its seek bar and running time, the audio player shows the station's own details instead: its name, genre, the audio format and the bitrate, such as 128 kbps. No bar you can't drag, no clock stuck at 0:00.

Paused for a phone call? When you press play again you'd normally hear the broadcast from where you left off, a few minutes behind everyone else. Tap Jump to live - right after the play and pause button - and the watch reconnects and plays what's on air at this moment.

While a channel plays, tap the pin in the player - Pin stream. The pin fills in, and from now on the channel sits at the top of the Streams list. Tap it again - Unpin stream - to let it go. The pin remembers the channel by its address, so it survives a fresh download of the catalog.

Channels you pinned on the phone come over to the watch too. The list then has three groups: channels pinned on the watch first, channels pinned only on the phone next, and everything else after them, each group in the sort order you chose. A channel pinned on both devices appears once, among the watch's own. Unpin a channel on the phone and it leaves the watch's phone group; a pin you made on the watch stays.