You already know that I love running to music - just look at my running pictures, all with headphones on. And I’ve established that you should listen to techno instead of podcasts on the way up a hill to make it easier to get over that hill. I’ve also dedicated a page here on the website to my beat-based Spotify playlists. They’re a mixed bag of music: you’ll find everything from Latin to pop to gabby techno (and more techno).

Last updated: 2024-06-08, 1287 tracks Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time doing fast-paced things like running and cycling. I’m pretty good at picking up the beat of music while I’m doing it. Hence, as I am a programmer, I started experimenting with the Spotify API. I found an interesting piece of data for music, the tempo field in the audio-features: The overall estimated tempo of a track in beats per minute (BPM).