# Music databases sorted by dance beat?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-databases-sorted-by-dance-beat/462435>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-databases-sorted-by-dance-beat/462435 "2008-09-07T01:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-databases-sorted-by-dance-beat/462435/1 "2008-09-07T01:42:47Z")

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I’m looking for something online that is a fairly big database of popular music of that is sortable (or is listed) by the rhythm. Like – These songs would be good to mambo to; these songs would be good for the tango; etc.

Basically, I’m looking for a shortcut to listening to all my songs and trying to categorize them by beat by listening to exemplar music.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-databases-sorted-by-dance-beat/462435/2 "2008-09-07T04:42:55Z")

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Do they do that sort of thing? I’ve been thinking that knowing how many beats per minute songs have might be interesting…

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-databases-sorted-by-dance-beat/462435/3 "2008-09-07T11:58:34Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Do they do that sort of thing? I’ve been thinking that knowing how many beats per minute songs have might be interesting…

I dunno if they do that sort of thing. Hence the thread.