AutoBPM Plugin#

The autobpm plugin uses the Librosa library to calculate the BPM of a track from its audio data and store it in the bpm field of your database. It does so automatically when importing music or through the beet autobpm [QUERY] command.

Install#

To use the autobpm plugin, first enable it in your configuration (see Using Plugins). Then, install beets with autobpm extra

pip install "beets[autobpm]"

Configuration#

To configure the plugin, make a autobpm: section in your configuration file. The available options are:

  • auto: Analyze every file on import. Otherwise, you need to use the beet autobpm command explicitly. Default: yes

  • overwrite: Calculate a BPM even for files that already have a bpm value. Default: no.

  • beat_track_kwargs: Any extra keyword arguments that you would like to provide to librosa’s beat_track function call, for example:

autobpm:
  beat_track_kwargs:
    start_bpm: 160