Thanks ChrisM for your kind reply but unfortunately no, it doesn't help.
Like I wrote previously, some of us take sound quality seriously and for this we invest in devices that produce better sound quality than average:
I carry my phone connected to a portable DAC/amp combo and it's from that system that I want my music to come and feed my headphones when I commute or walk around, not from a watch. The watch in this scenario would be a simple remote control for the phone and the playlist currently playing on my phone.
Phone + DAC/amp achieve superior sound quality, but are quite bulky and it's a pain to take them out of the pocket or backpack every time I want to look at the playlist or even better at all the playlists stored in my phone.
It would be nice to be able to control playlists on the phone from the watch, but I suppose your answer tells me that this is not a feature of the music player on the watch and it's a real shame.
I can't believe nobody has thought of this kind of use for the watch and did nothing about it... Storing music and playing directly from the watch is not an option for me, with only 1 GB of storage space available for music, small battery, bluetooth only and without even knowing which codecs are used. This could possibly work for listening to music while training, for about an hour, but not for the rest of the whole day. Phones are better for this, and watches should complement them rather than trying to replace them in playing music.
We can fairly conclude that the watch is not really a music lover-friendly device. Unfortunately.
