BeatCounter
idea by PaulWay
Count the number of beats and bars in pieces of music and output in a variety of text formats.
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Bryan $4000, 4 months
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License is open-source.
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My specific application is for Irish Set Dancing. It is useful to be able to read a new piece of music and determine how many bars it contains. The music is normally traditional celtic tunes with an even rhythm in a variety of time signatures, predominately 4/4 and 6/8 but also 2/4, 3/4 and 12/8.
- The program can be under Windows, Linux and Mac.
- The program reads music files in a variety of formats. WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC are required, and reading more formats is good. Being able to queue up music to be scanned would also be good.
- The program determines the beats per minute of the music, the number of beats and number of bars in the music, the length of the track and the start and end times of the beats.
- It would be good if the program can determine the time signature automatically, but alternatively the user can be asked to identify it.
- One output of the program is a CSV file containing the BPM, beats and bars, length of track and start and end times, with one line for each piece.
It would also be good if the BPM detection framework could be in a library that can be used by other projects.
2 comments (oldest first)
Here’s a link from Robert Hodgin’s Flight404 blog to help out whoever ends up developing this, if anyone: www.flight404.com/blog/?p=111
He’s thought through some of the issues here, and come up with some useful – and partly manual – solutions.
Wow, there’s so much involved in something like this. I’m sure a neural network/machine learning would be called for. The biggest problem would probably be pick-ups. Do these pieces of music ever have a pick-up bar?
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