Podcast BPM list?

[BostonChicago]

Hi - I'm loving this program and now in week 8! I want to make some playlists of my own but have no idea what the beats are to the music I'm already running to. I've looked on the site but can't find a list of the songs with BPM. Anybody know how I can find that out? Thanks!

[Hidden]

Try jogfm - you enter your km/min time and they suggest songs with a suitable BPM or you type in your desired km/min and again suggested songs are listed.

jog.fm/

[BostonChicago Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Thanks - I'll try putting in my pace and see what I get.

[LillyBeth in reply to Hidden]

Great link, thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for to get some idea of what 180 steps per minute cadence would be like.

[RunningBoo Graduate in reply to Hidden]

This is a brilliant site, I'll be using it a lot. Thanks!

[LMS2110 Graduate]

If you already have loads of music stored on your computer, there is a free downloadable program which will tell you the BPM of all your tracks.

Try this website: download.cnet.com/MixMeiste...

Once you've completed C25K, the follow on podcasts start at about 150 BPM, that might give you some ideas about a suitable starting point for where you are currently.

Have fun

[BostonChicago Graduate in reply to LMS2110]

So I take it there's no list of bpm for the tracks on the podcasts? or will mixmeister decipher the songs within the podcasts themselves?

[LMS2110 Graduate in reply to BostonChicago]

I've never found a list of the tracks, let alone their BPM! LOL Dear Laura introduces the follow-on podcasts, and mentions the BPM with the tunes, and chats along with a cheery 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, indicating quite clearly the rate at which feet should hit the ground on the various exercise routines! At the moment I'm still finding the 155+ tunes pretty exhausting for me ... I'm aiming for fitness not death ! The downloads are already compiled into little clusters of music, with Laura's commentary, which I suspect MixMeister would have problems coping with - so I haven't even bothered to try and analyse those - I wanted to use my own tunes.

I checked out the jog.fm site and whilst it is pretty comprehensive, it didn't feature some of my favourite tunes which I've had stored for many years. So, from my huge stock on pc (around 11,000 of every possible genre) I'm going to pick my faves, analyse them and then group them into compilations lasting eg 15, 30 and 45 minutes so that I can pick a speed and workout time according to the times I have available in my weeks. I'll give my 'albums' suitable titles and pop them onto an MP3 player for easy selection while I'm out running. I don't have a very smart phone, so do not know how the music is stored and selected on those.

Have fun

[BostonChicago Graduate in reply to LMS2110]

That is great to know about the 5K+ podcasts - I'll hang on until I've "graduated" to those to get a sense of what BPM I'm targeting.

[Markee Graduate]

Try this very simple to use site, you simply tap along to your music and it tells you the bpm.

all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

Not sure how accurate it is, but I managed to make a very good running list of some of my own music all at around 145 bpm (just the right speed for me).

[BostonChicago Graduate]

For anyone else who is interested in this topic - I'm a Mac user and found I couldn't use Mixmeister, but I did find an inexpensive Mac computer app called "Cadence Desktop Pro" that automatically analyzed my music for me. I don't know how accurate it was; I'll find out I expect when I make my first playlist. (I think I may need to buy some more music - I'm discovering that more than half my music is 120 BPM or less!)