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Bpm And Key Analyzer For Itunes Music

As big proponents of harmonic mixing, the DJ TechTools staff started out with a simple question: which program that analyzes a song’s key gives the most accurate results? To find out, we looked up the keys using sheet music for a selection of 50 pop/rock songs and then analyzed those songs using four key-detecting apps: BeaTunes 2, Mixed In Key 4, MixMeister Fusion and Rapid Evolution 2. Read on to find out the results.

THE KEY MAKERS

For our 50 test songs comprising recent hits and vintage classics (in MP3 and AAC formats), I took the keys from the digital sheet music site MusicNotes.com and compared those keys with each software program’s results. The Camelot System wheel was used to determine if an analyzed key was not correct but compatible with the actual key. The Camelot System assigns all keys an alpha-numeric value; and for example, keys compatible with 4A are 3A, 5A and 4B: plus or minus one number or the same number with a different letter. Scroll all the way down for tables with all the specific results.

Find key and BPM information for any song. Explore an extensive database of 40+ million tracks with data on release date, label, energy, happiness, and danceability. MixMeister BPM Analyzer is a free program you can use to automatically detect the exact BPM (beats per minute) of any song. The tags in most digital music files provide no.

Correct: 14 (28%)

Compatible: 18 (36%)

Incorrect: 18 (36%)

What else it does: BeaTunes 2 is an excellent complimentary program for iTunes. It helps you clean up your iTune Library by finding and correcting errors in the artist, album, title and other tags; searching for and adding other metadata such as album artwork, organizes songs with a color-coding system; determines BPM automatically or manually; and more. All of its changes are reflected in iTunes as well.

Price: $31.95 US for Mac or Windows

Correct: 15 (30%)

Compatible: 18 (36%)

Incorrect: 17 (34%)

What else it does: Not much besides tempo and key analysis. Its preference options for adding BPM/key to the file name, as well as different ID3 tags, are great.

Price: $58 US for Mac or Windows

Correct: 7 (14%)

Compatible: 14 (28%)

Incorrect: 29 (58%)

What else it does: MixMeister Fusion is a full-feautred, professional-level DJ software for creating and editing DJ mixes or DJing live with a digital audio workstation-style, timeline-based interface. A couple of the many notable features include mixing up to 8 tracks as once and support for VST effects.

Price: $329.95 for Mac or Windows (key detection also available in Mixmeister Studio for $199.95)

Correct: 15 (30%)

Compatible: 14 (28%)

Incorrect: 21 (42%)

What else it does: RE2 is an intelligently designed DJ utility made to use both and preparation for and during your sets. Besides tempo and key detection, it includes tap tempo and a software MIDI keyboard for you to work out BPM and key yourself, normalizing,time/pitch shift processing, live audio input analysis, key lock and more. You can save Mixouts, where you comment on mixes between particular songs. In addition, the MixShare website hosts a large harmonic mixing forum and a database of track information for hundreds of thousands of songs shared by RE2 users.

Price: Free for Mac or Windows (donations encouraged)

IMPERFECT HARMONY

It should be said that this test can only provide a look at the accuracy of each of these programs relative to each other, rather than an assessment of the overall accuracy. I was surprised at the number of incorrect readings for each program. I’ve seen some other similar tests with higher percentages for Correct and Compatible readings, so there may some particularly difficult songs in my test batch.

However, we can tell that that Mixed In Key 4 has the better numbers by a razor thin margin. MixMeister only gave out minor key results for some reason, which really hurt its stats.

Because Mixed In Key, BeaTunes and Rapid Evolution were statistically comparable, it comes down to which of those programs’ other features you want, as well as perhaps price.

My personal favorite is Mixed In Key, because it gives your results in the alpha-numeric Camelot System values — which is easier for mixing — processes files quickly and gives you some good options for how you want the key and BPM information to be added to the file name and to the file’s tags. However, it doesn’t do much more than key and BPM analysis, and it costs the most of the top-performing three.

As a free download, Rapid Evolution 2 gives you many interesting features besides key and tempo detection. and it makes up for not giving you the Camelot System numbers (User error: you CAN get the Camelot Sytem numbers in RE2 in the Keycode field.) You can look at only songs that are in a compatible key range, as well as similar in style and tempo.

Back in the good old days of creating beats per minute, we’d use a stopwatch and a pen. But those days are thankfully way in the past, replaced by modern technology that accurately calculates BPM to decimal places. And while iTunes has supported a BPM field for some, there hasn’t been much in the way of auto BPM software. But BeatGauge from tagtraum industries looks to fill that gap.

Here’s the official press release:

BeatGauge – filling the iTunes BPM column with ease
Cologne, Germany May 10, 2015 in Music

Cologne based indie software shop, tagtraum industries has announced BeatGauge, a new music utility for Mac OS X. BeatGauge automatically calculates BPM (beats per minute) for songs stored in iTunes. Implemented as drag’n’drop app, BeatGauge is dead-simple to use: Simply drop songs onto the app window and watch BeatGauge do its magic. Knowing the tempo of songs is important for dancers, DJs, spinning, aerobics, running, and many other beat-oriented activities and workouts.

[prMac.com] Cologne, Germany – tagtraum industries has announced BeatGauge, a new music utility for Mac OS X. BeatGauge automatically calculates BPM (beats per minute) for songs stored in iTunes. Implemented as drag’n’drop app, BeatGauge is dead-simple to use: Simply drop songs onto the app window and watch BeatGauge do its magic. All BPM values are automatically imported into iTunes.
Knowing the tempo of songs is important for dancers, DJs, spinning (indoor cycling), aerobics, running, and many other beat-oriented activities and workouts. It helps tremendously, when creating playlists that match the desired workout intensity or pace.

Features:

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Very simple, intuitive user interface
BPM values are imported into iTunes
Quickly finds and analyzes songs without BPM
Multi-threaded analysis that makes perfect use of multi-core processors
Supports all local, unprotected iTunes audio file formats
AppleScript API for power users

Notes:

Requires OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Music files must be locally stored in iTunes and writable
iCloud songs must be downloaded before analysis
DRM protected songs cannot be analyzed
State-of-the-art BPM detection is not 100% accurate – some values may be off by a factor of 2

Language support:
U.S. English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Simplified Chinese

Pricing and Availability:
BeatGauge is available for $7.99 (USD) in the Apple Mac

Bpm And Key Analyzer For Itunes