Soundtrack Your Strava Routes: On Cue Music Player + Strava Now Connects

When On Cue Music Player first shipped, the hardest part of using it was getting a route into the app. You had to build it from scratch — open the map, name your route, drop your first Music Moments by hand. For people who already ride the same loop every Saturday morning, that was a barrier without a clear payoff in the first session.

That changes today. On Cue Music Player now connects to Strava.

If you already use Strava — and 100+ million runners and cyclists do — your soundtrack layer just got a lot easier to set up.

What the integration does

In one sentence: any activity in your Strava history can become a soundtracked route in On Cue Music Player.

The mechanic is straightforward:

1. Connect Strava. One-tap OAuth from the On Cue Music Player Settings screen. Read-only access — we never write to your Strava account, and you can disconnect anytime.
2. Pick an activity. Open your last ride, last week's long run, or that 100k you did three Saturdays ago. We pull the polyline.
3. Get auto-suggested moments. Before you do anything else, On Cue Music Player proposes Music Moments at the spots that tend to matter: climb tops, kilometer marks, scenic landmarks within 50 meters of the polyline. Accept all, drop the ones you don't want, add your own.
4. Pick songs. For each pinned point, choose a track from your Apple Music library.
5. Press start. Do the route. As you cross each pinned point, the song you chose for that spot takes over — hands-free.

The whole loop from "Strava activity" to "soundtracked route ready to ride" takes under a minute on a familiar route.

Why this matters more than another feature

The product question we kept hearing in early-user conversations was, "Where do my routes come from?"

On a phone, opening a map and drawing a polyline from scratch is not how people think about their training. People think about the loop I do on Saturday, my commute, the climb past the reservoir. Those routes already exist — in their heads, in their Strava history, in their muscle memory.

Strava import means On Cue Music Player meets you where your routes already live. It doesn't ask you to re-build them. It picks up where you left off and adds a layer on top.

We've been clear from day one that On Cue Music Player is the soundtrack layer for your route, not a replacement for the tools you already use. Strava integration makes that literal. Strava keeps tracking the workout. We handle the soundtrack. Two apps, one route.

The "auto-suggested moments" feature is the part we're most excited about

When you import an activity, you don't start from zero. On Cue Music Player looks at the polyline and proposes Music Moments at:

• Climb tops. Elevation gain analysis — we identify the local maxima along your route and propose a moment at each one. Drop your power track at the base. Drop your reward track at the top.
• Distance markers. Every kilometer (or mile, depending on your unit setting). Useful for races where you've memorized the splits.
• Landmarks. If your route polyline passes within 50 meters of a named landmark (park entrance, bridge, monument), we propose a moment there.

You'll typically get 6–10 suggestions on a 20km ride or a 10km run. Accept the ones that resonate, drop the ones that don't, and add your own where the suggestions miss the spot you care about.

This is the feature that makes the import experience feel like more than a copy-paste. It's what turns "I have a Strava activity" into "I have a soundtracked route ready to go."

What's required

• On Cue Music Player v2.5.0 — auto-updates on the App Store today.
• An Apple Music subscription — On Cue Music Player streams from your existing Apple Music library, so an active subscription is required for playback. The app itself is free.
• A Strava account. Free Strava works. You don't need Strava Premium.
• iOS 17 or later.

The Strava connect is opt-in. Existing users who don't connect Strava keep using On Cue Music Player exactly as before — build routes manually, pin moments manually, ride them hands-free. Nothing changes for the manual flow.

Pricing stays exactly the same

Strava import is included in the Premium tier — no separate add-on, no upcharge.

• Free — 1 Workout Route, 5 Music Moments. Now imports from Strava work in the free tier too, within those limits.
• Premium — Unlimited Workout Routes, unlimited Music Moments. $1.99/month with a 7-day free trial, or$14.99/year.

If you've been on the fence about Premium because you didn't want to spend the time setting up routes manually, Strava import is the answer. Connect Strava, import your three most-ridden routes, soundtrack them in an afternoon.

What's next

We're tracking what comes after Strava import. The two most-requested features in our launch survey were:

1. Auto-pull new activities. Strava webhook subscription so that every new ride you complete shows up in On Cue Music Player automatically.
2. Push-back to Strava. After a workout, append a "Your soundtrack: [link]" line to the Strava activity description.

We're not committing to dates yet. We want to ship Strava import well first, see how people use it, and let the feedback shape what's worth building next.

How to try it

1. Update On Cue Music Player to v2.5.0 on the App Store.
2. Open Settings → Connect Strava.
3. Pick an activity from your history and tap Import.
4. Review the suggested Music Moments, pick songs, save the route.
5. Open the route, press start, do the workout.

It takes about three minutes from "I just heard about this" to "I'm riding a soundtracked route." If you're a Strava user already, that's the cheapest way we know to find out whether On Cue Music Player changes anything about how you train.

Download On Cue Music Player on the App Store →