1. An athletic monitoring system, comprising: a music file player operable to store and play a music file; a wireless transceiver communicatively coupled to the music file player and operable to receive a wireless communication from a motion sensor located remote from the music file player, wherein the wireless communication includes information about a step of a user; a pedometer element operable to utilize the information about the step to generate a performance metric; a performance engine operable to provide the user with an indication of the performance metric, wherein the indication comprises an audible message; and an audio output mechanism operable to simultaneously output a song represented by the music file and the audible message.