beats per minute
Nov. 19th, 2006 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashTangerine! is a pretty clever little app. Works out the BPM of all your tracks, and can generate playlists with a few different profiles of song-to-song BPMs.
I would play with it more, but there's a fly in the ointment for me: a lot of my music collection was encoded with Audion, as variable bit-rate MP3 files. iTunes gives me highly bogus track lengths on a lot of these as a result. This has been annoying me ever since I switched to iTunes. I was slowly going back and re-ripping to AAC, which iTunes knows how to get proper track length from, but this isn't going to happen now that all my CDs are gone.
Playing with Tangerine made me poke at this problem again, and I finally found a tool that might be able to fix this - but I really don't feel like installing the unixy QT gui just for one task, nor do I feel like installing Fink to install a Subversion client just to be able to get the source and compile the command-line version to play with.
Oh, wait, here's a package of Subversion that I don't have to install something ELSE to install...
(yes, I'll install a version control system to compile a command-line version of a tool rather than install a widget toolkit. I do not pretend to understand myself in this.)
Unfortunately I couldn't get it to compile. And the QT framework installer packaged with the binary version seems to be broken, too - the app still didn't run. Oh well. Someday I will fix this. Someday. Even if I do this by scrounging images of all 600 or so CDs I used to have and re-ripping them, or getting new rips off of friends with similar tastes in music and encoding quality.
I would play with it more, but there's a fly in the ointment for me: a lot of my music collection was encoded with Audion, as variable bit-rate MP3 files. iTunes gives me highly bogus track lengths on a lot of these as a result. This has been annoying me ever since I switched to iTunes. I was slowly going back and re-ripping to AAC, which iTunes knows how to get proper track length from, but this isn't going to happen now that all my CDs are gone.
Playing with Tangerine made me poke at this problem again, and I finally found a tool that might be able to fix this - but I really don't feel like installing the unixy QT gui just for one task, nor do I feel like installing Fink to install a Subversion client just to be able to get the source and compile the command-line version to play with.
Oh, wait, here's a package of Subversion that I don't have to install something ELSE to install...
(yes, I'll install a version control system to compile a command-line version of a tool rather than install a widget toolkit. I do not pretend to understand myself in this.)
Unfortunately I couldn't get it to compile. And the QT framework installer packaged with the binary version seems to be broken, too - the app still didn't run. Oh well. Someday I will fix this. Someday. Even if I do this by scrounging images of all 600 or so CDs I used to have and re-ripping them, or getting new rips off of friends with similar tastes in music and encoding quality.
Re: Last I checked...
Date: 2006-11-20 04:00 am (UTC)Re: Last I checked...
Date: 2006-11-20 04:49 am (UTC)Re: Last I checked...
Date: 2006-11-20 05:30 am (UTC)Re: Last I checked...
Date: 2006-11-20 06:50 am (UTC)Would id3v2 (http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/) help any? Yes, that's the name of the program, the programmer was (as many are) clueless about Google searches for their tool apparently. =^.^=