Calculating BPM rates for entire library

[undername required]

Hi.

New Mac OS X user finding my way with Mixxx ... tried the FAQ, Wiki and web for this without joy. Is there a way or a script to calculate the BPM rates for an entire iTunes library in advance rather than having to load each track in manually?


.... Ah, answered my own question, it is "Analyze" not calculate.

Perhaps I could suggest adding this to the FAQ under BPM?

[undername required]

It might also be a good idea to have a couple of progress bars;

one to indicate the individual track, and one to indicated the whole library/selection.

It takes quite a while!

Some calculations seem to be far too high.

I don't know how 'good' or 'evil' something like Gracenote is, I am new to all this, but would it be possible/quicker/more accurate to use something like that to set BPM rates?

[RAWRR]

Windows user here.

I've been trying to figure out how to do this same thing, and failing. Can someone give me a step by step? Under the analyze view, I can't get anything to happen, in fact there doesn't seem to be any kind of option. With the exception of the new/all toggles, it just looks like the library view; there is no "start" button or anything. Right clicking gives no clues, either. Is simply selecting the analyze view supposed to begin the processing of the whole library? Are there just no visual indicators or something?

[albert]

Windows user here.

I've been trying to figure out how to do this same thing, and failing. Can someone give me a step by step? Under the analyze view, I can't get anything to happen, in fact there doesn't seem to be any kind of option. With the exception of the new/all toggles, it just looks like the library view; there is no "start" button or anything. Right clicking gives no clues, either. Is simply selecting the analyze view supposed to begin the processing of the whole library? Are there just no visual indicators or something?

You can shift-click and bunch of tracks, and then click the "Analyze" button in the corner (is it missing??). You should see the BPMs start to get filled in after that. Yeah, the GUI is not great there... Also, you may want to check out the 1.11 beta that's a sticky thread in this forum, as the BPM detection is incredibly improved in that version, and I think the analysis also calculates the waveforms and more stuff in advance in that version.

Hope this helps a bit!
Albert

[RAWRR]

Thanks Albert! Just knowing there was something to look for helped. The button was completely invisible!! I found it by hovering around the border and looking for the tooltip...

...it was my msstyle. I guess it changed the font color for some class of window or font that those buttons are classified as or something. But, that has never happened before with Mixxx. At least not that I know of - who knows what other amazing features I'm missing O_O !

I *am* testing the 1.11.0 beta2-pre, and yeah I was looking to do the analysis with that version because I'd heard that the BPM was better.

Should I file a bug report that these buttons can become invisible with certain themes/msstyles?

[Pegasus]

Yes, definitely file a bug on that.

[RAWRR]

Done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1029473