Tired Of Clicking By Hand
Lazyweb, you're my only hope - I need something, be it an app or a small script or something - that will analyze my MP3s and set the BPM field in the ID3 info to a best guess based on the spectral data. If I have to click by hand for the ridiculous number of MP3s I have to approximate the data, I'm going to get RSD.
Looking for an OS X solution, although platform agnostic would be fine.
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Ask the DJ is a shareware OS X app that will analyze any tracks you drop on it and insert the BPM into the iTunes database. Of course, it does a lot of other cool things, like beat-matched transitions between songs, etc.
See: http://www.macmusic.org/softs/share.php?id=711
I did try Ask The DJ (immediately after I had written this post), and at the time it didn’t have write-to-MP3 capabilities.
Maybe I’ll give it another look, though.
Hmm. I’ve used it, and after using it, found that the “bpm” field was filled in iTunes.
It is possible that Ask the DJ is writing this data to the iTunes database, rather than the MP3 ID tags. If so, it is possible to copy the iTunes data to the ID tags (under the Advanced menu), but if you aren’t using iTunes to manage your MP3s, that would admittedly be inconvenient.