Re: Looking for BPM tagger

Stan Abeln <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.voyetra.audiotron
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Wagner wrote:
>
> OK. I've used it for about 15 minutes so far.
>
> ...
>
> It made one obvious mistake - It reported that I Do (Cherish You) by 98
> Degrees as 160 BPM. There's no way that's correct. I suspect, like
> you're example, it's an off by 2 error, but I'll have to check it in the
> more conventional way (finger tapping) to be sure.

There are "manual" BPM tools as well: you tap the keyboard and they'll
tell you the BPM (eg. "BPMCounter").  There's even an online version:
http://javascript.internet.com/calculators/beat-counter.html

> It does have one irritating habit. It reports the BPM to 2 decimal
> places. As if either (a) it could truly measure that accurately or (b)
> anyone needs it that accurate.

So it does not seem to comply with the ID3v2 standard which states that
TBPM is an integer...

Thanks for the report,

Stan