Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/05, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've not tried it myself, but I've read reports that you can do >> something like this with the sox tool. :-/ >> -- > > I hope it would be clear to folks that musicians are not metronomes. > There is no specific BPM for any complete song other than those that > played by computers. (A general statement but you get the drift...) > > BPM is something that is changing almost every few measures. Songs > speed up and slow down, whether by design or just by natural human > playing. Asking for a single specific BPM number is going to result in > a single numeric answer for a very limited number of songs.
Right, of course. Would you be more comfortable if I said that I'm interested in the "mean beat period"? There are a few good algorithms out there (since this will be running 'offline', it'll be a bit more accurate), I was just hoping somebody might have implemented one in Linux. As you might have guessed, I'm just looking for a tool to help me put together DJ mixes. Obviously a machine-derived BPM (sorry, "MBP") value won't be perfect, but it *will* be a good jumping-off point toward using songs in my library with which I am less familiar. -Eamon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
