[mb-devel] BPM info

[David Berg]

On 2/16/07, Vidar Wahlberg <canidae at exent.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:09:29PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> > 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.
>
> while i'd love something like this, how do you propose songs with
> variable bpm should be denoted?
> sadly the only example i can think of now is "Rednex - Wild and Free",
> but i'm quite sure there are lots of songs where the bpm vary.

How bout this....

We have a field for "Average bpm" and another giving the standard
deviation for the distribution of all tempos in the track.

--Dave