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Oct. 23rd, 2005 03:30 pmI posted this just now in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meri_oddities's thread about music for running, but then thought others might find it useful. If you listen to music while you exercise, and are trying to find some way to make playlists of songs at specific tempi to pace your workout, here's something I found:
1. Go to http://www.mixmeister.com/download_freestuff.html , where by signing up for their mailing list you can get a free download of MixMeister BPM;
2. Install it;
3. Tell it to scan whatever folder you've got your music in.
4. After a while (depending on how much music you've got--it's pretty quick) it'll return a list (with song and artist) of all songs and beats per minute of each.
5. Now export as a tab-delimited text document, open in Excel, and voila! You've got a nice spreadsheet of the exact tempo of all your music.
I find that having music at just the right tempo is a godsend when I'm trying to motivate myself to keep slogging on the elliptical, so this has been most helpful.
meri_oddities's thread about music for running, but then thought others might find it useful. If you listen to music while you exercise, and are trying to find some way to make playlists of songs at specific tempi to pace your workout, here's something I found:1. Go to http://www.mixmeister.com/download_freestuff.html , where by signing up for their mailing list you can get a free download of MixMeister BPM;
2. Install it;
3. Tell it to scan whatever folder you've got your music in.
4. After a while (depending on how much music you've got--it's pretty quick) it'll return a list (with song and artist) of all songs and beats per minute of each.
5. Now export as a tab-delimited text document, open in Excel, and voila! You've got a nice spreadsheet of the exact tempo of all your music.
I find that having music at just the right tempo is a godsend when I'm trying to motivate myself to keep slogging on the elliptical, so this has been most helpful.