Do you need extra motivation? Turn on this shortcut to listen to your “great song” when you need it most

in the beginning of the year I started running again with the help of Fitness + Months after the pandemic, it’s been the thing that has always served me to not only get fit – but also It cuts the mental connection and balances certain seasons of stress. Exercising regularly is a very healthy recommendation, but it’s also important to enjoy it so you don’t give up prematurely.

Music plays an integral role in all of this. This is what motivates us and even on certain occasions, pushes us to keep going. Having a good playlist is essential to getting out the kilometre. However, lately I’ve been missing out on something we had in the Nike+ and iPod days: The concept of “Powersong”.

The Powersong It was a special song we chose and we could activate it by pressing and holding the iPod button at any time during the race. Immediately, as if from kick From the adrenaline in question, that song that motivates us so much begins to play, pushes us – pushes us – When the muscles are already in the penultimate stage. It’s the “extra” that gives you batteries when you need them most.

Building our super song system using shortcuts

At the moment, there is nothing similar in the Apple sports apps, I’m starting to work Create a shortcut To simulate how to use “PowerSong” to work. I called him “Great song”Because in the end, that’s what it is: our wonderful song that fills us with energy at the last minute to give us the strength we need.

Running my “Super song” shortcut is very simple:

• While listening to music on iPhone or Mac (Works on both), we can ask Siri “Hey Siri, great song!”
• At that moment, the wonderful song we composed will be played.
• When the super song ends, the next song in the list we were listening to will continue to play. We can request the super song as many times as we want because it’s not ruined by our listening history.

The good thing about this shortcut is precisely: that we do not delete or stop the playlist we were listening to, as if we had created a shortcut to “play this song” and then the music stopped. Instead, the superstar song creeps into our listening and then picks up on what we’ve been up to. just to get it The extra oomph we need Sometime but still with our background music.

By “Getting Info” we will see the data we need to add in the shortcut to select our great song

Shortcut Configuration It is very simple: You can download the program from here Or create your own using Screenshots In this article. The only thing you have to do is Add the song title, artist, and album where I’m referring to in the capture. I recommend that you copy this information by selecting the song you want in Apple Music and viewing its data in Get Info. Respect uppercase and lowercase letters and do not enclose texts in quotation marks, parentheses, or the like:

Copy your super song info here

Important: You must have the song of your choice Added to your Apple Music library, or the shortcut will not find it. If not, I put a message telling you that you missed this step.

Essentially, what the shortcut does is retrieve the song we’ve selected, add it to the Up Next list and move on to the next song – so it plays right away. You can change a file Shortcut data from your Mac or iPhoneIt doesn’t matter because they are both synced with iCloud. The last part of the “Forward” shortcut to go to the next song will tell which device you’re using to press Next on your Mac or iPhone. Here you don’t have to touch anything.

once with Shortcut in your library, you can repeat it and give it more uses – not everything has to be a sport. Maybe an acronym for the song that helps your kids sleep? Or the tune you love at the end of the shower? If you are handy, you can add more than one song (I leave it to your liking).

Without a doubt, extra motivation will never hurt Rush to our workouts Or improve that moment of the day: you can change the name of the shortcut “Awesome song” (Because that’s what Siri uses to activate it) also as per your wish. Try it: and Let the super songs come back in our lives!

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