I'm seeing that E! Entertainment Television has released a couple of trailers for their upcoming show about Indoor cycling Instructors > Hollywood Cycle. Looks like your garden variety fitness studio drama. Nothing different than what we experience every week at Life Time. Does this look like your studio as well?
The show is scheduled to begin July 7th 10/9 central on E!
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I'm getting into the habit of creating my new playlists on Tuesday. Why? I can't help myself, listening to the latest new music playlist from Spotify has me feeling very… how would I say it? Hip? Cool? In the know? [wlm_private ‘PRO-Platinum|PRO-Monthly|PRO-Gratis|PRO-Seasonal|Platinum-trial|Monthly-trial|PRO-Military|30-Days-of-PRO|90 Day PRO|Stages-Instructor|Schwinn-Instructor|Instructor-Bonus|28 Day Challenge']
This new track playlist never disappoints > Look what we've become from Grace Potter is simply awesome – I love a powerful 93 RPM Tempo Flat with inspirational lyrics. I'll introduce the effort, then shut up and ride along with my class… until the chorus where, looking at the class with a big smile, I'll quietly speak the bolded lines into the mic:
And they always told us we would be nothing
But look what we've done (look what we've done), hey
And they always told us we would be nothing
Now look what we've become (look what we've become)
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If you like that, you'll love; The Lion The Beast The Beat – I'm not sure I've ever come across a better 5 minute BIG FINISH song. Listen with your eyes closed and see if you can visualise the build up and then let the beast out!
Can't wait to try both of these in an Evolution Cycle class profile![/wlm_private]
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Gene Nacey from Cycling Fusion joins me to discuss a bunch of stuff including:
All of this is packed into this 16:30 Podcast!
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So that I didn't lose the track timer in Spotify, I purposely set my iPhone to not auto update… but it did anyway #$%^&*!
When I fired up Spotify this morning I was taken to a “this is new” screen and I knew I was hosed. Played a track and sure enough the track length timer disappears after a few seconds. Oh, sure, you can touch the album art and the numbers will reappear, only to fade away. Frustrating.
So I checked to see; how did this happen? Did I do something incorrectly in my settings that would have prevented this? Turns out no. Opening the App I see that Spotify is waiting for me to click update, along with all the others. So Spotify updated without my approval 🙁
So what to do?
I'm not seeing any option on my iPhone other than frequently tapping the screen.
Taking one for the ICI/PRO team, I crossed my fingers and updated Spotify on my iPad. That works! The playlist timer remains on. So that's going to be my device until if/when Spotify changes the iPhone version.
Beyond that, I suppose we'll have to wait a few weeks and – I hate to even consider this – and switch to Apple Music 🙁 Then of course there's the issue with the hundreds of playlists many of us have built. Will there be a way to convert a Spotify music playlist to an Apple Music playlist? We have a tool here to convert music playlists from Spotify to Deezer. I'll have to get cracking on that ASAP.
Kind of underwhelming if you ask me.
OK, I was wrong when I said last week that Apple doesn't do “Me Too!” products and services. I just sat through the live presentation and didn't see anything that would persuade me to switch from Spotify. They made a bunch of noise about “connecting” with artists, but nothing about sharing or connecting with other users. From what I could see there isn't anything that will improve how you deliver your class music. Even Apple's playlist timer fonts are tiny 🙁
I'll still try it at the end of the month when it's released as an iOS 8.4 update. It sounded like Apple Music will be built into iTunes… or the other way round, so every iPhone/iPad will automatically get it.
Pricing
Apple Music will offer a free 3 month trial, then it's $10.00 a month. There is no free option like Spotify. If you have a bunch of users in your house, the family share plan (up to six users) for $15 a month might be of interest. It could help me and Amy save $60 a year.