Software that scans BPM and writes it to tags..

[haze324]

(A lot of us don't have Serato, but) How accurate is it? Traktor and VDJ aren't really the best.

Serato's offline player is free.

[Orthminius]

Thanks, didn't know that.

I'm going to try a couple of these, and cross-check them.

[Orthminius]

I've been using Rapid Evolution, and it does a lot more than just BPM- Key, Genre, MetaData, key sig, comments. Also, if you select one song, it will show you easily mixable songs, determined by BPM, key, etc.

[JulianVeloso]

KeyFinder is the best free key detection software, Does Serato Analyze huge batches of songs?

[brian_johnstone]

you can drop you're entire library onto analyse in serato and just leave it

[JulianVeloso]

you can drop you're entire library onto analyse in serato and just leave it

Will it write BPM tags?

[ksandvik]

I've tried all kinds of BPM detectors and the Traktor one is the best, me thinks. It also writes out the BPM as iD3 tags.

[JulianVeloso]

I've tried all kinds of BPM detectors and the Traktor one is the best, me thinks. It also writes out the BPM as iD3 tags.

Yeah the traktor 2.5.1 one is very nice, but there's no way to analyze a huge amount of tracks at the same time, am i right?

[ksandvik]

Yeah the traktor 2.5.1 one is very nice, but there's no way to analyze a huge amount of tracks at the same time, am i right?

What I do, but I'm very iTunes centric, is to have a smart query that lists all tracks with no BPM in id3 tags. Then when I open this in Traktor, I just set is as a Traktor playlist and then run analyze across all those tracks. To see the tags then in iTunes, I need to just click on them to play as the file has to be re-opened in iTunes so its BPM database is updated. Done this for months now and it's a quick operation, this way keeping BPM in iTunes as well as updating the Traktor database itself.

[JulianVeloso]

Ohh i got it, works great. thanks.