Bpm Song Analyzer
I have figured out a way to add Beats Per Minute to music in iTunes using free software (for those using Windows):
1) Install foobar2000. When you double click on the exe file to install it, you can select to add a portable version or install it.
2) After installation, install a plugin to foobar2000 named 'BPM Analyser' (they call plugins 'components'). The download will have an extension named *.fb2k-component.
3) Open foobar2000 and set up the left pane named 'Album List' so it has the folder where your iTunes music is stored. Right click on any song or groups of songs and select 'BPM Analyser'. Then select 'Automatically analyze BPMs' to show results. You can check to see if you agree with the results by playing the song and right clicking on the songs again and selecting 'Manually tap BPM for current track'. It will display a button that you can tap in time with the music. You can then compare the two numbers to see if they agree and then press the button 'Update File' to add the number to the BMP tag in the music file. Of course if you trust the automatic calculation, you can click on 'Update File' when it is done. I have found the automatic calculation is usually accurate though occasionally off.
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4) Install Mp3tag:
The foobar plugin just adds the number to the BPM field. iTunes requires that each entry to have ' BPM' entered after the number. After installing Mp3tag, open the music file that you changed with foobar. You will need to add a heading for BPM because it won't be there by default. Do this by right clicking on the column headings. Highlight the files you want to change and then click on the 'Convert' pull down menu and select 'Tag – Tag'. Select 'BPM' in the pull down list and enter the following in the 'Format String':
%BPM% BPM
Then click on the 'OK' button. Mp3tag will add some lead zeros to the number and that is OK.
Bpm Reader
5) Open iTunes and display the the 'Songs' view. Add the BPM column heading if you haven't already. The BPM field will be blank. You can play the song or right click on the song and select 'Song Info' to make it update the tag information. This will take too long if you have added very many BPM counts.
Download the 'UpdateTagInfo' script from here:
Highlight the songs you want to update in iTunes. Double click on the file 'UpdateTagInfo.vbs' and then click on 'Yes'. This will update all the files you selected.
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There are quite a few steps but it doesn't usually take long once you do it a few times. Step 3 may take some time if you select hundreds of songs.
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Knowing the BPM (beats per minute) of your music is of course essential for both understanding better where various genres of music fit on the BPM scale and also for mixing those tunes together once you know.
Nearly all the software people DJ with automatically calculates the BPM of your music for you – it’s part of the loading time taken when you drag a new track onto a DJ deck in Virtual DJ, Traktor or Serato etc.
Bpm Song Analyzer Software
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But what if you don’t have DJ software yet? What if you don’t want your whole collection in your DJ software? What if you just want to fill in the BPM ID3 tag of your files in iTunes?
Luckily, there’s a little-known free program that will do that (and only that) for you. It’s from the makers of DJ mix automation software Mixmeister, and it’s called BPM Analyzer. It’s available for PC and Mac, and you can get it from here:
It couldn’t be simpler to use – you just drag and drop your files and watch MixMeister BPM Analyzer review them one by one.
I’d recommend running it overnight if you’ve got a big collection – and don’t forget to ask your iTunes (or whatever library software you use) to rescan the ID3 tags of your MP3s once you’re done. The reason is that some software (including iTunes) doesn’t do this automatically.
Have you got any little free pieces of software that you couldn’t live without? Let us know in the comments.