So I'm in deep with my Mac. I've turned my back on Mozilla and Camino and am loving Safari; I'm slowly turning to the bubblesome cuteness of iChat over Fire; I'm loving iTunes 4 and new improvedness; I've just gone wireless; my ageing PowerBook seems faster than ever; I'm drinking Steve's Kool Aid in huge splashy gulps.
One of the many tiny unadvertised features in the new iTunes is the ability to set beats-per-minute (BPM) for each track in its info. At least, I think this is new. Could be handy, I thought, for automatically creating playlists of similar tempo songs. But how, Steve, how do I work out what a song's BPM is? A quick search on VersionTracker and voila! The fabulous iTunes-BPM Inspector. Just tap along to the current song and it works out, and sets, the BPM for you. It's insane, but wonderfully so.
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Thom Pinho at 20 Oct 2004, 3:14am. Permalink
Whoa!
Thanks SOOOO much for that! I've been wracking my brain with how to do it and was *blanches* using Excel to keep a file of the info when I had “guesstimated” it… It's kinda important when figuring out what to load to listen to at the gym…
Yay!
Thanks again!
Milz at 28 Jul 2005, 3:24pm. Permalink
that's good - BUT - I have over 7,000 tunes in my library and I would like a tool that can do the BPM counting for me and enter the BPM count for every song in the right filed in iTunes. It needs to work on Windows XP too because I'm not a Mac user.
Any chance of some guidance on this? It would be fantastic if you could help.
Many thanks
ep at 23 Oct 2005, 8:49pm. Permalink
A BPM counter that updates the iTunes record for WinXP is exactly what I'm looking for, too…
epimp at 23 Oct 2005, 9:06pm. Permalink
Go here for BPM detection software:
http://www.mmartins.com/mmartins/bpmdetection/bpmdetection.asp
Ian Schneider at 20 Jul 2006, 3:13pm. Permalink
check
www.meanspeed.com
www.meanspeed.blogspot.com
this will get you a start.
bets to you,
Ian Schneider
www.meanspeed.com
Hendrik Schreiber at 3 Aug 2006, 8:22pm. Permalink
Check out beaTunes at http://www.beatunes.com/
It automatically measures the BPM of your whole music collection.
Ian Schneider at 23 Sep 2006, 2:02pm. Permalink
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Hendrik Schreiber at 3 Aug 2006, 8:22pm. Permalink
Check out beaTunes at http://www.beatunes.com/
It automatically measures the BPM of your whole music collection.
Checked it: pure garbage.
Why is all the BPM-ware shareware??? because IT CANNOT WORK—unless, maybe, it's a Justin Timberlake-esque “song” with nothing but repetitive industrial noises at a steady frequency.
Yup, BPM-ware is shareware because it is worthless.
Ian Schneider
www.meanspeed.com
erik at 6 Apr 2007, 9:47pm. Permalink
Does anyone know of a good bpm finder that can find the bpm of all of your itunes songs? It needs to work on Windows, not Mac.