Software that scans BPM and writes it to tags..

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Software that scans BPM and writes it to tags..

basically the title says it all, i’m looking for a good software that will scan the BPM of a song and write it on the tags.

  • It needs to be able to scan huge ammounts of songs, not just 1 by 1.

Maybe there’s a way to do this in traktor, if so can someone explain?

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Ive spent months looking for something that does just that. I gave up though, concluding that doing it in traktor gives me an excuse to mix.

Would still be interested in something quick and accurate to get the job done

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I’ve heard mixed in key does the job, but i don’t have money for that right now.

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I think your right. But I use Key Finder, which only does key. however Its free, simple, and the guy who made it just wanted to offer an awesome product without all the fancy doodads. I wish it would do bpm, but I would rather donate to the guy who did keyfinder than jump on the MIK - “with our help, and your money, your can DJ like david guetta” wagon.

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…What about this? And there’s a lot more here.

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not sure about where it writes it (i believe it’s ID3 tags) can’t you just download Serato offline player and scan/analyze your tracks with SSL?

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

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good find orthminius, have you used the first one? Im about to download it

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Nah, I just found it. (I have awesome googling skills.) I was going to ask if any of you have. I’ll try it now anyway.

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Well, it’s FAST. It did the two hour Mothership mix in under a minute (on my computer). And it looks pretty acurate. However, it likes to put the BPM slight differences in the decimals.

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Serato’s offline player is free.

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Thanks, didn’t know that.

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

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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.

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

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

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Will it write BPM tags?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Ohh i got it, works great. thanks.