BPMer for Mac

User Reviews

• This is not the software you are looking for.

  lpt3May 22, 2012

  Pros

  Ran without crashing in standard configuration

  Cons

  1) Some files had their artist, album, title or genre field jumbled up (e.g. Android would become something like nArdiod). Sometimes it was all four fields, sometimes it was one. It's been a month or two and I'm still finding these occasionally. 2) Some files that had BPM data previously were left with no BPM data at all. 3) Demo version over-writes comments in your tags saying that the BPM was determined by BPMer, and the pro version neglects to remove these. I hope you don't keep anything interesting in your comment tags if you use the demo version. 4) The log file is almost entirely useless. BPMer told me there were errors but the log only had a list of every file scanned followed by "updated", "up-to-date" or "filtered due to genre". No error messages to be found.

  Summary

  This software bills itself as functional, but is anything but. It will leave your id3 tags a mess, and it won't even correctly add BPM data to all of the files it damages. Don't even think about looking for a support forum, FAQ or list of common problems, either... Because there aren't any. Don't even hope that they'll respond to your e-mails. It didn't happen for me, and there's nothing to suggest it will happen for anyone else. I'd say use Windows via Parallels and run MixMeister for a better solution. Anything but this.

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• Stay Away. Seriously !

  Jean Guy NadeauDecember 20, 2011

  Pros

  Ease of use

  Cons

  Be careful if you use the BPMer option to reduce intros. The result is not good at all, even awful, and the app does not allow you to reverse this reduction. You will have to do it manually song by song. And you don't want to do it a library containing thousands of songs. Ouch !

  Summary

  Don't do as I did.

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• Avoid like the plague.

  cazzypooJanuary 2, 2011

  Pros

  Uh...nothing

  Cons

  The beat matching is inaccurate, it took almost a day to tag my library (100Gb), re-wrote around 10% of my ID3 tags, removed album art references and couldn't work out the all BPMs for my library. It even skipped electronic music with a clear beat.

  Summary

  There are far better tools out there. Given the time required to analyse your music library and fix it once this software has ruined your ID3 tags, I'd have been better off getting a free tool (like Virtual DJ) and manually editing the track info - even with a 100gb library. Don't run this, let alone buy it, unless your library is a complete mess anyway.

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• Worked for 2 weeks then stopped NO customer svc NO help

  beesouSeptember 4, 2010

  Pros

  Worked for couple weeks fine

  Cons

  Stopped working and generates errors. E-mailed customer service many times and no response. I'll dispute the charges.

  Summary

  Do not buy this software!!

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• Far from perfect

  cokeadJuly 7, 2010

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I would urge you to try the demo first--if that works for you, chances are the full version will, too. However, MY full version did the following: 1. skipped entire CDs (not DRM-protected) 2. assigned entire CDs the same BPM across the board 3. assigned languid ballads insane BPMs in the 900s 4. changed all the foreign characters in song titles to gibberish/nonsense Bottom line, it's been next to useless for me--all I wanted to do was assemble some workout/running playlists based on BPM. So much for that modest goal. They seem to have disappeared, as my pleas for support go unanswered and there's no sign of recent life on the website. Still, they're set up to collect payments.

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• Still...

  charlie105pbJuly 1, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... no response from the authors after 2 mails and a review. Is this soft still supported?

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• Good BPM but ...

  charlie105pbJune 4, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... looses the album art. Would give more stars when this is fixed, and maybe buy it

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• Works as an Alpha version, if best.

  timhereMay 24, 2007

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Well it certainly takes it's time and could do with at least some kind of help system. It also forces the stop/start time of EVERY track which, whilst necessary for the AccuBeatMix plug in to function properly is also highly annoying when you don't necessarily want your music mixed - the automatic altering of start/stop tags is also sometimes way off - shortening some songs down to just a few seconds. Yes, this can be removed, but rather than just unchecking the plug in you have to run a script which is currently taking forever.. (I have 25gigs of songs). It also balks at very long, ambient music - just stopping rather than skipping it. To be fair - when this is used with AccuBeatMix and when it works - it is really very clever and a neat trick... but is currently rathe flawed and I regret paying for it.

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• Works as an Alpha version, if best.

  timhereMay 24, 2007

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Well it certainly takes it's time and could do with at least some kind of help system. It also forces the stop/start time of EVERY track which, whilst necessary for the AccuBeatMix plug in to function properly is also highly annoying when you don't necessarily want your music mixed - the automatic altering of start/stop tags is also sometimes way off - shortening some songs down to just a few seconds. Yes, this can be removed, but rather than just unchecking the plug in you have to run a script which is currently taking forever.. (I have 25gigs of songs). It also balks at very long, ambient music - just stopping rather than skipping it. To be fair - when this is used with AccuBeatMix and when it works - it is really very clever and a neat trick... but is currently rathe flawed and I regret paying for it.

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• So far, so good

  Jeremy SongerFebruary 3, 2007

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I'm a working club DJ and have a constantly growing library of tracks (mp3's, etc.). I've used several software BPM detection methods. ltjBPM is accurate but tapping becomes tiresome, Beatunes is only about 60% accurate (useless), Dekstasy works well but does not save the info in the files metadata (likewise for Traktor), Mixmeister (for windows) is free and works perfect but the data is saved in a format that confuses iTunes for mac. BPMer seems to have come fairly close to "hitting the nail on the head". Using the demo version, it seems to be 95% accurate (which is tolerable for automated detection). It's plain, simple, and easy to use. I was hesitant at spending $20 on another piece of software (avoid beatunes) when a perfect Windows application (Mixmeister) is free. After seeing the developers quick response to the previous review, I am hopeful it will be money well spent. A few more tweaks for accuracy, and this app will be a dream come true.

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