Snow mode
The hill sets the tempo.
Load a day you recorded and Tempo Tunes reads it as a tour, a resort day or a Nordic course. Skin track, ridge, lift and drop each get their own BPM, and the playlist changes tempo where the hill does. Free, on the web and in the app.
Your day
A .fit, .gpx or .tcx from Garmin, Strava, Slopes and most apps. Climbs, descents and the rest each get their own tempo.
Example tour · 2 h 10 min · 7.4 mi · 2920 ft up · 2 laps
Read in your browser. The file never leaves your device.
What kind of day
Picked from the shape of your track. Change it if we read it wrong.
Skin up slow, one big song on the ridge, drop in fast.
Tempo by terrain
Move any tempo.
Approach
The approach, the road, the flats between.
Skin up
Skinning. 50 to 60 strides a minute, doubled.
Transition
Skins off, looking at the line. One big, slow song.
Drop in
Dropping in. Faster than your legs would pick.
Your playlist
41songs
Music changes where the hill does. Outlasts 2 h 10 min.
Free. Switch on Snow in the app, load the same file, and set the same tempos.
How the playlist is made
A day on snow has two speeds. An hour of skinning at a walk, then nine minutes down at the speed of a car. One playlist cannot serve both, so Snow mode reads the day first and gives each part the music it wants.
The track becomes the shape of the day. The file carries altitude, distance and speed. Tempo Tunes smooths the altitude, measures the grade and the speed, and marks every stretch as the skin track, the ridge, a lift, a run, or the flats between. Then it decides what kind of day it was.
Each part gets its own BPM. On a tour the skin track starts at 108, the ridge at 96, the drop at 168. A resort day rests on the lift at 100 and flies on the run. You can move any of them, and the strip shows what will play where.
The playlist is built to the day. Every part gets enough songs to cover its minutes from 2.5 million tracks with verified BPM, in the genres and artists you pick, with a song to spare so the music outlasts the day. Press play at the trailhead and it changes with the hill.
Three kinds of day
What each day listens for, and the tempo each part starts at. The dials above let you move every one.
Tour
Splitboards and touring skis.
Skin up slow, one big song on the ridge, drop in fast.
- Skin up108 BPM
- Skinning runs 50 to 60 strides a minute. Doubled, the music lands on every step.
- Transition96 BPM
- Skins off, looking at the line. One big, slow song for the ridge.
- Drop in168 BPM
- Dropping in. Faster than your legs would pick, because that is what it feels like.
Resort
Lift-served days, with the odd bootpack.
Lifts rest, runs fly. Hikes in between get a stride.
- Lift100 BPM
- Riding up. The music rests with you.
- Hike108 BPM
- A hike to the ridge or a sidecountry bootpack gets a stride.
- Run168 BPM
- The run. Fast music for a fast hill.
Nordic
Classic and skate on a course.
A course. Steady on the flats, a grind on the climbs, a glide on the way down.
- Flat144 BPM
- Your cadence on the course. Skate is 60 to 72 pushes a minute, doubled.
- Climb132 BPM
- Grinding up, a touch under your flat cadence.
- Glide124 BPM
- Tucked and gliding. The music eases off with you.
The example above is a 2 h 10 min two-lap splitboard tour: 90 minutes on the skin track, two ridges, and 20 minutes of dropping in. 3 kinds of day, one engine.
Questions riders ask
- Which files work?
- A .fit, .gpx or .tcx from Garmin, Suunto, Coros, Strava, Slopes and most apps that record a day on snow. Garmin's Export File zip and Strava's bulk-export .gz work as they are. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.
- How does it know what kind of day it was?
- From the shape of the track. Long slow climbs with fast drops read as a tour, repeated fast descents with a slow ride between them read as a resort day, and a course with no big vertical reads as Nordic. If it reads yours wrong, tap the right one and the dials reset for that day.
- What counts as the drop?
- Altitude is smoothed, grade is measured over the minute around each point, and a sustained descent is the drop. On a tour the stretch between the top of the skin track and the drop is the transition, and it gets its own song.
- Can I change the tempos?
- Yes, every band. Each has a dial from 60 to 200 BPM. The hill decides when the tempo changes; you decide what it changes to.
- I do not record my days. Can I still use it?
- Yes. Snow mode's cousin, Live, builds the playlist while you ride: your watch or your phone reads the skin track and the drop as they happen, and it keeps playing where the signal does not reach. And Tempo mode makes a steady playlist at any BPM with no file at all.
- Where can I save the playlist?
- Apple Music, Tidal, and YouTube Music today. Spotify reserves full access for apps that reach 250,000 monthly listeners, so every rider who joins gets us closer.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. The explorer, the app, and the playlists are free, on iPhone, Android, and the web.
Playlists that match your Pace
Snow is one switch inside Tempo Tunes. Pick your genres and the artists you love, and the playlist is built to your day. Save it to Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube Music (Spotify once we reach 250k monthly listeners).
Built on the mountain.