[mb-devel] BPM info

[David Berg]

On 2/15/07, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/07, David Berg <drberg1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know this has come up in forums and lists in years past but don't see
> > any recent discussion.
> >
> > I'd like to make use of tempo (bpm) in developing my playlists, but
> > there doesn't seem to be any good resource for getting the information
> > or an easy way to share anything that I calculate with the rest of the
> > world.  Is there any discussion on including a bpm field with track
> > information?
> >
> > --Dave
>
> I think before MB implements this, there needs to be a consistent way
> to find out the BPM of tracks.  I've looked around, but haven't found
> anything.

Have you seen gjay?  There's also beatroot at
http://www.ofai.at/~simon.dixon/beatroot/index.html.  Both of which
are open programs and could probably modified to work with a range of
formats and be run in the background.  So a utility to get the data in
linux might not be too far away.

Other then a clear definition what more consistency is needed?  Whats
the difference between someone using a manual tempo calculator and an
automatic program if they come up with similar values?  If a wrong
tempo is entered someone will fix it at some point.

--Dave