Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo

Spotify launched a new AI-powered Running Mode feature that lets Premium users in eight countries curate playlists around beats per minute, music taste, and workout duration, with 25 preset running playlists and optional audio coaching prompts in English. The feature, available today on iOS in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden, builds on Spotify's Prompted Playlists personalization and is designed to reduce time spent searching for workout music.

Spotify has introduced a new Running Mode feature that makes it easier to curate playlists around your workout goals, music tastes, and desired beats per minute BPM . The aim is to help you “spend less time hunting for the right music and more time moving,” according to Spotify’s announcement, providing customizable running presets and optional coaching features. Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo The AI-powered feature provides preset playlists that you can curate around BPM, music taste, and workout duration. The AI-powered feature provides preset playlists that you can curate around BPM, music taste, and workout duration. Running Mode is an AI-powered experience that builds on personalization capabilities that were introduced with Prompted Playlists last year /news/842053/spotify-ai-prompted-playlists , with Spotify finding that fitness-based prompts have been some of the most popular uses for that feature. It requires a Premium subscription and can be found under the Fitness hub /tech/918861/spotify-peloton-guided-workouts that Spotify launched in April. It’s available starting today on Spotify’s iOS app, but only for users in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden for now. There are 25 curated running playlist presets to choose from, which can be further customized around your preferred music genres, workout duration, BPM, and training method — including interval, steady, and pyramid. Running Mode also includes optional audio prompts in English that provide “timely cues and motivation without getting in the way of your music,” according to Spotify. This isn’t the first experience that Spotify has made specifically for runners. It launched a Spotify Running /2015/5/20/8630213/spotify-unveils-new-design-for-runners feature in 2015 that was also designed to help you match music to your running pace, before retiring it in 2018 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Retirement-of-our-Running-Feature/td-p/4383603 . There is a notable distinction between that and the new Running Mode, however — Spotify Running used your phone hardware to automatically detect your pace /2015/6/1/8696659/spotify-running-is-great-for-discovery and react by playing music that synchronizes with it, whereas Running Mode needs you to proactively define your own workout playlist requirements from the start. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.