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For some activities such as running it is important to know how many BPM a song has. I know that Banshee can do this but I couldn't figure out how to do this for a selected range of songs.

Which tool can I use to detect the BPM and immediately tag this in the ID3 fiels of the corresponding files?

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Are you still looking for an answer to this? – jrg♦ Mar 5 '12 at 18:40
Yes, there has not been a decent answer yet – Ingo Mar 5 '12 at 19:57

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There is a thread (Any beat detection software for Linux?) on SuperUser dealing with the same problem.

It uses a combination of commands (bpmcount, mid3v2, vorbiscomment, metaflac) compiled into a neat shell script.

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Here is a set of command-line tools for detecting and tagging BPM.

You could use a loop or xargs in a shell script to run this on a library of songs.

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Can you give an explanation on how to use this software? – ObsessiveSSOℲ Oct 22 '12 at 23:06
Copy the files into your $PATH and run bpm-tag file.mp3 – mmx Oct 23 '12 at 22:58
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Banshee has an option for detecting BPM.

And if you only want to detect the BPM for a select range of songs, open their proprties dialogs, go to the Extra tab and click on the Detect button. enter image description here

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I know, see my question... – Ingo Dec 8 '11 at 12:05

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