u/tempotunesapp

Tango music lives by orchestra and era more than any genre label, so this might be a strange fit, and that is exactly what I want to find out.

Tempo Tunes builds playlists where every song matches a target tempo. Pick a BPM, set a tolerance, lean toward artists, pin an era, and it generates a playlist that holds that tempo, pulled from 1.5M+ tempo-verified tracks and growing. There is an Obscure to Popular slider for deep cuts versus familiar songs. Playlists save straight to Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube Music. Free, no ads, on iPhone, Android, and web at tempo-tunes.com.

Where I suspect it could earn a place in tango, and where I need honest answers:

• Alternative and nuevo sets: finding non-tango songs that sit at a danceable tango tempo seems like the strongest use. If you DJ alternative milongas, is tempo hunting a real chore?
• Practicas: a playlist that holds one steady tempo for drilling. Useful, or do you only ever practice to the classics?
• The honest weakness: the library skews toward streaming-era catalogs. Golden age recordings are in there through remasters, but I would not claim deep coverage of every D'Arienzo transfer. If you try it and your orchestra is missing, tell me, that is exactly the feedback I want.

Dev here, happy to answer anything. Dancers in the ballroom and west coast swing subs already reshaped parts of the app with their feedback, so blunt answers are welcome.

Ride music math is always the same: warm up around 80 to 90 RPM, climbs in the 60s, sprints pushing 100 plus, cool down slow. Finding songs that actually sit at double those cadences (the BPM) is the annoying part.

Tempo Tunes does that part. Pick a BPM (or a curve: ramp up, bell, wind down, which maps neatly onto a ride arc), pick genres or artists or a decade, and it builds the playlist from a library of 1.5M+ tempo-verified songs and growing. It saves straight to the Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube Music account you already have, so there's no second music subscription. Free, iOS and Android, looks like a cassette tape because music apps used to be fun.

Happy to answer anything about how the tempo data works. If you try it for a ride, I'd genuinely love to know what the playlist got right and wrong.

Hey everyone! I just opened up the public beta for Tempo Tunes, an app that builds playlists matched to a tempo.

You pick a BPM (or tap along to a song and it detects the tempo for you) and it generates a playlist to match — great for running, lifting, cycling, or just finding music that fits your pace. There's also an Obscure↔Popular slider so you can dig for deep cuts or stick to hits.

iPhone only for now. 300 tester slots. Feedback very welcome — especially anything confusing or broken. You can reply here or use the feedback button in TestFlight.