If you’re the proprietor of a Fitbit Versa, Versa 2, or Ionic, you’ll soon no longer be capable to transfer music from your laptop to your Fitbit machine. In a help web page noticed by 9to5Google, Fitbit says it’s discontinuing its Fitbit Join app, leaving you with solely two methods to obtain music to your machine: a paid subscription to both Pandora or Deezer.

Fitbit Join is a companion app for Mac and Home windows computer systems that lets you sync health information between units and transfer music to legacy Fitbit units. Fitbit has slowly been phasing out the software program in favor of its cell app, because it no longer recommends that customers obtain it on its setup web page.

However with out entry to Join, there’s no strategy to obtain music to your Fitbit and not using a paid subscription to both Pandora or Deezer. On its help web page, Fitbit says “you could also be eligible for a 90-day trial” of both service, which will run you $9.99 / month for Deezer Premium or $4.99 / month for Pandora Plus as soon as the trial’s over.

This variation doesn’t have an effect on newer Fitbit fashions, nonetheless, as they don’t include the choice to transfer recordsdata between your PC and Fitbit machine (units just like the Versa 3 and Sense already solely let you obtain music by way of Deezer or Pandora). If you personal an older Fitbit that has the flexibility to retailer music, you’ll nonetheless get entry to the music recordsdata you have on your Fitbit machine proper now — you simply received’t be capable to obtain any further songs with out Pandora or Deezer previous the October deadline.

Many customers use their Fitbit units to regulate the music they’re enjoying on their smartphone, whether or not they’re streaming music by way of Spotify or listening to songs already downloaded on their telephone. However nonetheless, accessing native music recordsdata can turn out to be useful if you’re listening to music offline or wish to use your Fitbit with out your smartphone.

Whereas Fitbit doesn’t clarify why it’s eliminating Fitbit Join, it’s potential that there simply isn’t sufficient demand to maintain the service up and working. Google (Fitbit’s mum or dad firm) didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.