BPM is one of the least supported music tags. While working on Select-o-Magic 3000, the only automated BPM detector for mp3's I found was from Piston Software.
The current version of SoM3K supports mp3's tagged with BPM, the next version (look for it by the end of the month) will support m4a's tagged with BPM (tmpo).
SFAIK, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats do not support BPM tagging.
I'm happy and touched that that Plastic Operator song made such an impression on you. I really love them and feel similarly to you about that song's emotional resonance; I get the impression a lot of people see them as sort of bland.
If I hadn't talked to you about "The Long Run" before, I'm sorry -- I thought I'd already told you how awesome and helpful I've found it! I also like "Folder" quite a bit, though not in such a profound way; I should check out more of their stuff. I definitely don't think they're bland.
Basically all they've done is the one album that both those songs are on. And it's great! After your post yesterday I went and listened to it and still thought it was wonderful. But that's about all there is.
Thanks for sharing! A whole album of a useful tempo seems like such a great thing.
What kind of a workout are you currently doing? Right now I'm pretty much just running or biking around my neighborhood for exercise, but I'd like to get back to also doing weights and running intervals.
So, the workout is based on something called Tacfit. A climbing buddy of mine who is also a sports coach picked out the specific exercises for me for it, but it's a somewhat standard program. Anyway, in theory you do a rest day, a light day, a moderate day, and a hard day (so four-day cycles). I'm doing the moderate and hard ones as tacfit workouts (and just doing whatever else I do for exercise as well
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Been wanting to respond to this in more detail for a while, but my computer broke. I'll briefly say that that sounds pretty awesome. I think I'd really like something that doesn't require a lot of equipment and doesn't take too long to mix in with my runs.
If you use iTunes, you can accomplish something similar to what you want to do by building custom playlists for joyful, angry, etc. Then you can use their smart playlists and select based on something like this (it's a gui, not text, but you can do this
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Thanks for the tips! I really would like to be able to do that kind of stuff on the fly from my portable device rather than having to pre-build every possible combo playlist ahead of time and then switch back and forth. But smart playlists are definitely helpful.
I'm with you on BPM! I have a playlist (a real one of owned music and a spotify one) called 'working speed' which is almost exclusively harddance and eurotrance above 125bmp. Otherwise I am very unsophisticated, and the only other constructed playlist I have is called Kareoke, and is songs I like to sing along to (very quietly due to tone deafness). I share 'Rodeo Princess' across the Department via itunes too, which, er, does what it says on the tin :D
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BPM is one of the least supported music tags. While working on Select-o-Magic 3000, the only automated BPM detector for mp3's I found was from Piston Software.
The current version of SoM3K supports mp3's tagged with BPM, the next version (look for it by the end of the month) will support m4a's tagged with BPM (tmpo).
SFAIK, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats do not support BPM tagging.
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What kind of a workout are you currently doing? Right now I'm pretty much just running or biking around my neighborhood for exercise, but I'd like to get back to also doing weights and running intervals.
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Otherwise I am very unsophisticated, and the only other constructed playlist I have is called Kareoke, and is songs I like to sing along to (very quietly due to tone deafness). I share 'Rodeo Princess' across the Department via itunes too, which, er, does what it says on the tin :D
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