Auto Beats DJ 1.4 - Updated 12/07/2012

[trixmoto]

This is the plus/minus BPM value, meaning if it is set to 10 and the currently playing track is 120 then the next track will have a value between 110 and 130. If you set it to 100 then the next track would have a value between 20 and 220, which I'm guessing would be almost your entire library. If you read the thread you should get a good idea of what is meant by wandering, as it was a requested feature.

[gblum]

Thanks, how about 99 BPM max? Is that as high as the setting goes?

[MusicBringer]

...did we ever found out how to mark/tag the BPM on FLAC files

Thanks, how about 99 BPM max? Is that as high as the setting goes?

No. Many of mine are 200BPM but none is higher - so I suppose that is as high as the MixMeister BPM Analyzer software goes.

[gblum]

I was talking about the setting within Auto Beats DJ. It doesn't let me select anything higher than 99. Am I doing something wrong? I am on version 1.3.

[trixmoto]

Why would you want to set it higher than 99?

[gblum]

I'd want to only play songs with a BPM over 150, for example. I use this feature for exercise, so I only want fast songs. As it stands now, the highest I can set is 99. This is not fast enough for my tastes. And, the higher I set the wander, the more slower songs I get in the list.

[trixmoto]

If you want it to play songs over 150, start playing a track that's 180 and set the tolerance to 10 and the wandering low. As I tried to explain above, this value is the tolerance not the target BPM.

[gblum]

I'm still wondering if I have this set-up properly. Based on the previous correspondence, my Settings are #BPM 10, Wandering 1. I started with a 132 BPM song. The next 5 songs went as follows:
131 BPM
120 BPM
119 BPM
115 BPM
110 BPM
What appears to be happening is that it finds a song within 10 (+1) away from the previous instead of the first. Over time I started with a fast song and end with a slow one. It dropped by 22 BPM over just 6 songs. Is this the expected behavior, or am I still doing something wrong? Sorry to be so confused by this, but I'm looking for a workout type playlist generator and keeping the BPM within a tight range makes a difference.

[trixmoto]

Yeah, this is what I would expect. If you want to keep it in a set range then try a wandering of 0 (wandering encourages it to keep going in the same direction) and maybe a tolerance of 5?

[gblum]

Wandering won't let me go to zero. It keeps changing back to 1 when I hit OK.

[trixmoto]

Sorry, I meant 1.

[bemis]

hi,

is there a way to deactivate the option that the script prefers never played songs or songs with a low playcount.

[trixmoto]

If you can't find it in the options, then no. I've added it to my list to look at adding these options though.

[trixmoto]

New version (1.4) now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Added option to not favour unplayed tracks
- Added option to exclude last X played tracks

[PorkNBeans]

I was looking up the information for scripting and was about to script something like you have here but with an extra option outside of just BPM's, I'm a DJ and when I mix I try to keep things harmonically mixed (every DJ does but it got easier than it was 10-15 years ago LOL) by keeping songs not only in a 6% BPM range but also by keeping them in keys similar to the key they are played in, instead of rambling on look at the image here. Outside of mixing by ear I can now take guess work out of what songs go together by keeping them close in notes, it just makes things not only sound so damn good but I no longer need to label my mp3's manually there is a program that detects the key a file is played in and fills the comment section with the key it is played in & I mention this so you will understand why I was about to program my script.

So what I was going to script was something that allows me to choose the auto DJ to pick songs similar in BPM with a range of 6% either up or down and also simultaneously picking from my comments section and keeping that either in the same key, one key up or one key down. As a sample look at the image I linked then imagine a song played in F-Sharp Minor, that song would sound fantastic with another song in F-Sharp minor, A Major, D-Flat Minor or B Minor. However, not so good if you went to E-Major, D-Major, A-Flat Minor or B-Minor it doesn't mean it cannot be done or every song will sound bad it just means it's optimal to stay either one note to the left, right or directly above when looking at that Camelot wheel.

If you could do this feel free to otherwise I'll go along with my original plan and create it myself, I just didn't think it would be fair to do it when there is already a script which does the bulk of it.