Daily Movement

My wife gave me a project of making a workout music mix for her new iPod Nano for her birthday.

First off, I’m using Mac OSX and iTunes, so keep in mind that a solution using Windows will involve different software, but maybe with same overall limitations.

I tried beaTunes 1.2.1 but found the BPM analysis wasn’t accurate for some songs.

Then I came across Potion Factory’s Tangerine listed on this page. I double checked the results with a free javascript manual-tapping-based BPM analyzer and they were accurate. Sometimes Tangerine picked a twice as fast BPM but I think unfortunately, the numbers will always need to be tweaked before they are used to put together a smooth playlist.

I’m still deciding what to do. I still haven’t shelled out any money for either of these programs yet.

I tried using Ecto v2 on osx — actually purchased it — but the RTF editor has issues such as:

• not being able to get numbered lists to be generated correctly,
• when I switch to HTML mode, the new text i’ve added to the list doesn’t show up,
• when I edit the HTML in an external editor, e.g. textmate, and go back to ecto, the HTML has been rewritten incorrectly.

So, i’m going to have to discontinue my use of this and just use wordpress’s native editor. Hopefully things are improved with Ecto v3.