Organizing Tracks by BPM

reboot · Post by **reboot** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:00 am

I'm starting to use Ableton Live to mix my wav files but i'm still used to timecoded vinyl + software with a library who gives you the exact bpm of each tracks before playing them.

I'm looking for a little software like a library to organize my wav files by ID Tag and by Bpm before playing them in Live.

Does somebody can help me to find it please ?

thank you

Affiliation · Post by **Affiliation** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:24 am

I use this little guy (free) for all my mp3 id3 tag needs:
http://www.downloadtower.com/download/tigo-tago.htm
It wont per say organize them but in my view it is by far the best for tag editing.
hope this helps,

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:49 am

iTunes.

reboot · Post by **reboot** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:41 am

the most important to me is to organize my tracks by BPM, i'm using a PC not a MAC.

Shoma · Post by **Shoma** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:50 am

you can use something like this:

http://www.mymusictools.com/dj_tools_16 ... _25608.htm

it will rename your files according to their recognized BMPs

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:56 am

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Free, and the ability to drag 'n drop from iTunes into Live is really useful.

I include the tempo and key of the track in the song title, so it's easy to search directly in Live's browser

glenc · Post by **glenc** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:13 am

iTunes actually supports the BPM field, so you can sort by BPM easily. AFAIK, there are plans to implement a button to auto-save Live's calculated BPMs into that ID3 field so that you don't have to manually enter them into iTunes anymore either.

If I were you, I wouldn't go hacking extra information into the song titles, use the ID3 fields that were intended for that purpose.

This is a great example of two very specialised apps working very nicely in harmony, with very little overlap, each working to its strengths

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:00 pm

glenc wrote:If I were you, I wouldn't go hacking extra information into the song titles...

Why not?

When Live supports ID3 tags, I will. Until then, including the tempo and key in the song title makes it piss-easy to do harmonic beat-matching without needing another program or utility. Everything I need is in the Live browser.

Triptronic · Post by **Triptronic** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:41 pm

Xone MixedInKey is a nice prog to organize your files.
But it´s too expensive .. 58$

http://xone.mixedinkey.com/Homepage.aspx

greetz triptronic