Find the right music for your workout with Beatscanner

by Jay Hathaway (RSS feed) May 25th 2009 at 10:00AM

Making the right workout mix is all about tempo. If you're going for a run and you want to bring music that matches your personal pace, Beatscanner can help. It automatically detects the beats per minute of songs in your music library, and makes playlists of songs at the pace you want. It was originally built in 2007, and the developer just started updating his blog again earlier this year, so the app's design is still a little bit old-school, to put it politely.

If you're not satisfied with the songs you have, there's also a premium version of sorts, called Repacer. Instead of just finding songs that are the right tempo, it changes the pace of your existing songs to match the BPM you're looking for. That way, you don't have to worry about your favorite songs being too fast or too slow to work out to.

Tags: beatscanner, music, tempo, workout

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jose Farrugia said 10:38AM on 5-25-2009

Pump up the jam. Imagine that being played while you're working out ;-)

max123 said 12:52PM on 5-25-2009

It didn't even recognized 90% of my mp3 files...
I say go with Mixmeister BPM Analyzer (freeware and excellent) and then make autoplaylists in your favorite music player (i use foobar2000 for that).

kingkool68 said 7:28PM on 5-25-2009

I agree. Mixmeister BPM Analyzer was the only program that could automatically go through my 20 gig collection of MP3's and auto tag the BPM. Beatscanner craps out after only a couple albums and doesn't go through sub folders making it a pain to use unless you dump all of your MP3's into one folder.

William said 11:32AM on 5-26-2009

Is there a Mac equivalent for this program?

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