Android users that are looking for an extra boost to be able to do their workouts regularly could be receiving one from Spotify, as the music streaming service revealed that Spotify Running has been released for the Android mobile operating system.
The Spotify Running feature, which was first launched in May, detects the running pace of the user and then searches through the millions of songs in the company's database to play music that is in step with the user's pace and according to the runner's listening history.
Spotify Running, however, was only available for iPhone users upon the feature's launch. Now, Spotify announced through a post on its official blog that the feature will now be made available to Android device owners as well.
"Since the launch of Spotify Running, millions of you have laced up and hit the road together with the best musical motivation out there," Spotify wrote in the blog post.
Users can listen to several playlists covering different genres on Spotify Running, along with some original compositions specifically for the feature. To use the feature, users can simply select which genre of music they want to listen to before they start running. Spotify Running will figure out the tempo that the runner is going at and provide a non-stop music playlist that is customized to the pace of the user. The music, of course, will be selected according to the listening preferences of the user.
Spotify users with Android devices that are looking to try the feature out will have to update the app in their smartphones, with the update accessible through the Google Play Store.
The Spotify Running feature on Android follows the launch of the Found Them First tool by the music streaming service, which informs users how many breakout artists they listened to before they became popular.
A breakout artist is defined by Spotify as an artist with 20 million streams and a growth rate of 2,000 percent from January 2013 to June this year. For a user to be defined as an early listener, the user should be among the top 15 percent of listeners for a specific track and should have listened to it at least five times.
