Comments on: finding beats per minute

Question: finding beats per minute

StickyCarpet — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:13:10 -0800

Software to find the beats per minute for digital music files.

I would like to find a program, preferably free, that will scan a list of sound files and find the BPM for each one. I don't want a stand alone beat matching program, as I do not want to modify the music. Any other tools for crafting music sets with minimal processing of the sound files appreciated. I'll be assembling in Audition.

By: awesomebrad

awesomebrad — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:16:46 -0800

It's not free, but Traktor DJ Studio 3 offers a 30 day trial and is pretty good at giving a BPM for songs you import.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:32:46 -0800

ask the dj... but not free. oriented toward beatmatching but it looks like it can go thru all your mp3s and add the BPM to the id3 tags.

By: NYCinephile

NYCinephile — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:47:37 -0800

This recent question led me to the BPM Analyzer.

By: PowerCat

PowerCat — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:05:36 -0800

You can use AnalogX's nice free utility, TapTempo!
It's manual, though.

By: stungeye

stungeye — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:32:09 -0800

The trail version of MixMeister does auto-BMP discovery.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:54:55 -0800

Thanks NYCinephile, that's exactly what I was looking for. (stungeye, its a free standalone tool from MixMeister.)

And, PowerCat, I can use TapTempo to check the accuracy of BPM Analyzer!