iTunes BPM app?
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- xrusos
is there an app to automatically tag all my songs with bpm (beats per minute)?
i've heard of the "iTunes-BPM Inspector" by blacktree,
http://www.blacktree.com/apps/
but it's manually determined for each track. not a good idea for several thousand songs.
- xrusos0
i'll bump this on monday, but two more things...
1) on a mac
2) doesn't need to be specifically for iTunes... i just need to get all my ID3 tags edited to include BPM info - then iTunes should pick that up.
- xrusos0
Sunday bump...
- sexypixel0
I'd also like to know :)
- xrusos0
Tony, do you think this would work?
it says it has a BPM counter, but i don't think it changes the ID3 tags.
- sexypixel0
i mentions bpm tapping, which is a primitive was of getting the bpm. (you tap the spacebar to every beat and it gives you a guestimate.
no mention of putting it in the id3 tag.i'm pc tho, but we might find a hybrid
- xrusos0
well since you make the master mixes i groove to at work, i hope you get yours first.
when's the next soulshine comin'?
and by the way, i got my father that Pete McCarthy book for Christmas. Thanks for the suggestion. He loved it. He's also reading the Across Ireland with a Fridge book. (He also bought a copy for me before I headed back to CA so i can read it)
Happy New Year.
- xrusos0
forget it, the thhdesign On Air app only figures bpm with tapping.
i'm hoping Steve announces this feature as an addition to iTunes on tuesday during the MacWorld keynote.
- sexypixel0
excellent... you should give that MacCarthy book a read too, very funny.
I partied a bit too hard over the holidays so am working on the new soulshine this week. I have two ready but they arent quite right. Cant wait to knuckle down and get stuck into the new one, i have all the tracks selected so the fun part is ahead.
happy new year to you too :)
- enobrev0
i was looking for a beat counter a few months ago when i was setting up a dj archive site, and again a couple years ago, and a few more times over the past 10 years.
Besides the caveman means of slapping the spacebar or clicking or whatever, I haven't seen any automatic ones that worked correctly.
I've downloaded a few (lost the links purposely in disappointment), and every one either counted nothing or locked up the resources far to much to care.
That's all pc, maybe you'll be luckier with mac... Anyone have anything that really works and well on either pltform, and a beer or 3 will be owed to you. (id3 tags or not)
- sexypixel0
have you used beatmapper, its the a tempo checker built into acid.
It is the most precice I have found. but its not automatic, it takes about 4 to 5 steps to get the exact bpm
- enobrev0
think i still have acid lying around here somewhere. I'll give it a look in the morning...
- sexypixel0
4.0 is the latest version and has the new improved beatmapper in it
- xrusos0
monday bump... i've also sent out an email to a buddy at DigiDesign (think ProTools, mBox, etc.) to see if anyone there knows anything.
- xrusos0
still no word from digidesign... i'm crossing my fingers that this will be an update to iTunes announced tomorrow at MacWorld SF.