How do I get iTunes to rescan the BPM of all my music?

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How do I get iTunes to rescan the BPM of all my music?

Hello,

NEVER EVER DO THIS

Stupidy I set all of my music collection to have a BPM of 999 because I read that's the best way to get a list of tracks that iTunes can't find. Example: All tracks that don't have a BPM of 999 are missing (and then delete them from my library).

However I use several DJ Software programs which use the BPM tag for syncing etc.

How can I get iTunes to rescan all the BPM's of my music collection and save over the old tag data?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iTunes 10.4.1

Posted on Sep 19, 2011 6:36 PM

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Joe Gramm

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Sep 19, 2011 7:06 PM in response to van-daviz

You could look around Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes

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van-daviz Author

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Sep 19, 2011 7:15 PM in response to Joe Gramm

Thanks Joe but there are only 3 things for BPM and rescanning isn't one of the unfortunately. There are cool scripts though. Will be saving that site.

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Joe Gramm

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Sep 19, 2011 7:18 PM in response to van-daviz

To bad, I don't have another solution.

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Limnos

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Sep 19, 2011 8:47 PM in response to van-daviz

I never buy stuff from iTunes Music store so I don't know, does it come with a BPM value? If not, I don't think iTunes can analyze BPM and you'll have to find a third party utility to do it. I suggest a web search for something like "OSX beats per minute" etc. I did this a few years ago and found a couple of shareware analyzers and two or three free ones. I think one was called MixMeister. None of the free ones were great, and I don't really need BPM so I lost interest.

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