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User profile for user: Matthew Jackson
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Export Song List -itunes- to Excel (with BPM)

Hi, trying to export my Itunes library song list to excel. When I do it, it exports most of the info but not the column BPM (Beats per minute). I need this one more than any as a DJ. Why is it not exporting? Any ideas? Everything else looks fine.

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Matthew

IMAC SE 600 graphite, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Sep 3, 2006 12:48 PM

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User profile for user: MacMuse
MacMuse
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Sep 6, 2006 9:38 PM in response to Matthew Jackson

OK, let's try the hard way.

iTunes keeps an XML copy of your Library data in Music:iTunes:iTunes Music Library.xml. iTunes only writes to this file as a quasi-backup of the real database at the heart of iTunes - "iTunes Music Library".

The XML file does contain the BPM data. Depending on your familiarity with XML you may be able to easily parse out the data yourself rather than relying on iTunes' Export command.
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Export Song List -itunes- to Excel (with BPM)

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