How accurate are those BPM programs?

[TridenT]

The programs that go through your music collection and determine the beats per minute of each song. How accurate are they?

Just wondering... as this one I am using (considered decent) put Diamonds and Pearls by Prince at 163. And I don't know how fast Diamonds and Pearls is, but 163 is in Drum and Bass territory...

 

[Crusty]

Filtering to detect beats is pretty straight forward if the song doesn't change times frequently so I would imagine it would be fairly accurate.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

shouldn't you (if you have any musical talent at all) be able to count beats on your own? granted you can't get an exact # very accurately, but it's pretty easy to figure out what 120 is versus 160 by just feeling the beat on your own...

 

[TridenT]

shouldn't you (if you have any musical talent at all) be able to count beats on your own? granted you can't get an exact # very accurately, but it's pretty easy to figure out what 120 is versus 160 by just feeling the beat on your own...

I don't have any musical talent. ^_^ I never played an instrument or read music or sang or anything of that nature.