bpm-tools mit Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• bpm
• bpm-tag

Projektgeschichte

The official project page says bpm-tools came from experiments in automatically calculating and tagging music tempo. The public Git history begins in December 2011, and the official page lists bpm-tools 0.3 as the most recent release dated 21 May 2013.

The project is distributed from Mark Hills's own site, with an HTTPS Git clone URL and GPLv2 licensing. The page explicitly says the code is the best explanation of the algorithm, a relatively simple application of autocorrelation by statistical sampling.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption appears modest and utilitarian: the input package facts list packages in Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE/zypper. That distribution spread is typical for a small Unix audio tool that remains useful without frequent releases.

The official page connects bpm-tools to the xwax Linux DJ community, suggesting its early users were command-line-oriented DJs and Linux audio users rather than mainstream media-library applications.

Wie es verwendet wird

The package provides commands such as `bpm` and `bpm-tag` for detecting tempo and tagging files. Its best fit is batch analysis, DJ preparation, and scripts that need tempo metadata without opening a full digital audio workstation.

The author cautions that there is no scientific comparison with other algorithms, so the package is best understood as a pragmatic command-line estimator rather than a definitive music-information-retrieval benchmark.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bpm-tools is a good example of the small personal-site Unix package: one focused algorithm, a couple of commands, a tarball, and a Git repository that distributions can keep alive long after the release cadence slows.

For package history, it also ties together Linux DJ culture, xwax, and shell-friendly audio metadata workflows in a way larger GUI music tools do not.

Zeitleiste

• 2011: Public Git history begins with the initial commit in December.
• 2013: bpm-tools 0.3 released on 21 May according to the official page.
• 2021: Official page remained maintained enough to carry a December 2021 page date.
• Current: Packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Ubuntu, and zypper according to input package facts.

Related projects

• The official page names xwax as a related Linux DJ project by the same developer and points BPM and Linux DJ discussion toward the xwax community.
• Related package-manager neighbors include audio taggers, command-line decoders, DJ tools, and music-information-retrieval utilities.

Quellen

• https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools
• https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools.git
• source_facts.package-manager