Re: Looking for BPM tagger

Manual tools are grossly inaccurate. The most accurate BPM tool around
is at www.djmixpro.com. This DJ package can scan a set of files and
accurately determine the BPM. It is very accurate. Unfortunately it does
not mdoify the tags for you .

Stan Abeln wrote:

> Michael Wagner wrote:
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>>
>> 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.
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>
> 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
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