by conchitafarage » Sat May 24, 2014 8:44 pm
Still no automatic BPM analyser for FLAC it seems. Any updates?
In the meantime, I tag my FLACs using MixMeister BPM Analyzer to get the BPM, but still have to manually add the results to their metadata. It's a tedious job, but it beats the hell out of working out the tempo manually, especially if you have 1000s of FLAC tunes that you really want BPM-tagged! If anyone's interested, here's how to do it... pretty simple really.
- Go into Windows Explorer and select the parent folder of the FLACs (or whichever audio format) you want to analyse and tag
- In the Search pane, search for "*.flac"
- Instead of dragging the results to the BPM Analyser, add them to your audio format converter of choice (I use dbPowerAmp Music Converter)
- Convert to MP3 (64kbps quality will do. Make sure the program is set to keep the original FLAC files and export to a new, empty folder.)
- Add the newly created MP3 files to the BPM analyser and convert
- Once converted, click "Export to text file" and open the file
- In the original "*.flac" search pane, select all again, and drag in to an empty Winamp (or whatever) playlist
The playlist should be in the same order as the BPM list, so now you can manually tag in the detected BPM values. You have to really want your music tagged or it won't be worth the hassle, but it's the quickest way I can think of. I've still got a long way to go (around 700 files), so if anyone has any better ideas, please speak up!
Still no automatic BPM analyser for FLAC it seems. Any updates?
In the meantime, I tag my FLACs using MixMeister BPM Analyzer to get the BPM, but still have to manually add the results to their metadata. It's a tedious job, but it beats the hell out of working out the tempo manually, especially if you have 1000s of FLAC tunes that you really want BPM-tagged! If anyone's interested, here's how to do it... pretty simple really.
- Go into Windows Explorer and select the parent folder of the FLACs (or whichever audio format) you want to analyse and tag
- In the Search pane, search for "*.flac"
- Instead of dragging the results to the BPM Analyser, add them to your audio format converter of choice (I use dbPowerAmp Music Converter)
- Convert to MP3 (64kbps quality will do. Make sure the program is set to keep the original FLAC files and export to a new, empty folder.)
- Add the newly created MP3 files to the BPM analyser and convert
- Once converted, click "Export to text file" and open the file
- In the original "*.flac" search pane, select all again, and drag in to an empty Winamp (or whatever) playlist
The playlist should be in the same order as the BPM list, so now you can manually tag in the detected BPM values. You have to really want your music tagged or it won't be worth the hassle, but it's the quickest way I can think of. I've still got a long way to go (around 700 files), so if anyone has any better ideas, please speak up!
