Re: [Banshee-List] Crossfading and BPM detection

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

2009/2/19 Neil Loknath <neil loknath gmail com>:
> Bertrand,
>
> I built from SVN trunk last night and played around with the new BPM
> feature.  Unfortunately, my results were disappointing.  I think there could
> be 2 reasons for this:
>
> 1. The GStreamer implementation of BPM detection is not an optimal
> algorithm.
> 2. The sample of music passed to the algorithm is not from the most optimal
> time.  For example, the beginnings of some songs can be very different from
> their middles.

Just fyi, I currently have bpmdetect processing the whole file, and it
spits out bpm values at various points - usually many per file - and I
take the mode of those as the one-true-BPM.

Gabriel