ltjBPM App Reviews

delightful tool to tap out the beats and get that sweet BPM info so necessary in todays fast paced world. The keyboard shortcuts make processing a large number of tunes pleasantly efficient. Henceforth Ill be using this for all my BPM/DJ/Playlist needs!

Incredibly handy tool to quickly set the beats per minute (BPM) of each song. Simple shortcut keys allow easy navigation between tracks (so you dont wear out your hands mousing around in iTunes), and you can even skip ahead within the track if you need to skip past a slow intro or whatever. This dev has literally thought of everything, and in such a small package. Ive tried many automatic BPM calculator apps over the years, but at the end of the day, your best bet is to just tap along yourself, its the only way to get accurate values. The beauty of having BPM values in your iTunes library, is it adds that much more power to your Smart Playlists. If youre working out, set a playlist for only songs from 90 to 120 BPM, for example. Need to chill? Find songs 80BPM and lower. Its brilliant. Kinda surprised Apple hasnt worked on some sort of BPM tool themselves, but in the meantime, get ItjBPM…its the only one worth your time!

This App is a joke do not buy, There are free App that do the same thing.

Exactly what I was looking for! It would be nice to be able to automatically calculate the BPM but the manual calculation allows for a bit more personal evaluation. Not every song is heard the same by listeners! I also love the feature of being able to add a rating to each song as you go. Nice job on the customizable buttons too… very easy and friendly program… thank-you!!

Love this app but it’s incompatible with Apple’s new OSX 10.12. Eagerly awaiting an update on the app.

I havent really bothered to set BPM on my iTunes library since I no longer do radio. And back then I used to pretty much just carry the image in my head so I could build reasonable (or at least non-jarring) segues. But my library has grown pretty large and when I decided to start doing some mixes I realized I needed to start recording. I wasnt really sure where to start and then I stumbled on ltjBPM. It does what I need pretty neatly and elegantly.

Useless app. You can tap yourself and do the exact same thing without wasting your $. Total junk app.

Not functioning after multiple downloads

WASTE OF MONEY

You have to tap out the BPM for the program. There must be a program that can do this automatically.

This Is Trash… Waste Of $

This is a great tool that provides a quick and transparent process for manually measuring and posting BPM counts for iTunes tracks. ltjBPM only counts the beats that you tap out in time with the track yourself. This is one of its best features. Result: beats per minute for only the beats that you want counted, not an automated best guess. This is great for non-4/4 time signatures (like waltz, etc), and prevents half- and double-time values from creeping in unless you want them. This tool lets me quickly and transparently audit BPMs for long lists of tracks in my iTunes playlists with just a few keystrokes, and without switching back and forth between windows like working directly within iTunes requires. I have used this program since 2005, and Im pleased to see it in the App store so I can support its creator by conveniently paying for it!

The individuals who have given this app low ratings are looking for an app that automatically finds the BPM for you. This app does not do that and it is one of its best features. You can very easily (through this beautiful minimalist app): 1. Use hotkeys of your choice to skip to the right portion of the song you want to listen to, change the volume of the song, and more (without going into iTunes) 2. Tap out the beat of the song using a hotkey of your choice. 2. Send the BPM you just found straight into your iTunes. Apps that automatically find BPM for you I have found to be very unreliable. While you must be very precise to find the BPM with this app, I prefer to know how the BPM is being found. Ive suggested this to numerous friends, and theyre hoping for a version in the future to be used on Windows as well. One of the best $3 Ive ever spent. As a fitness professional, Ill be using this all the time. Thanks Jared!

This is a really nice tool which helps you measure the BPM of your music one song at a time by repeatedly pressing a key to the beat of the music. ltjbpm has some really nice keyboard controls. After you measure the BPM, you can press a key to enter the BPM value it into iTunes. In addition, you can rate the song with the press of a key and you can change to the next song by pressing another key. It has some other keyboard features such as changing the volume and jumping forward and back within a song. You can even customize the keyboard controls if you like. Im glad this software doesnt automatically measure BPM. It is very difficult for software to accurately measure BPM automatically. I need the BPM to be accurate for all of my songs and so I prefer to measure it manually with a tool such as ltjbpm, which is my new favorite BPM tool! Thanks Jaraed!

im tapping and im not getting a BPM. is this the only BPM tool out there? my old one doesnt work with the new itunes. Plus my old one was better and free. Apple is sure making things less user friendly and expensive. Step your game up developers.

I read the instructions, followed the preferences, opened itunes and it read and inserted the BPM exactly as advertised., I checked three tunes with a metronome and they were spot on. I did have to add the BPM column but that was all that was needed. Nice one...

I love this app! Its so easy to use and the results go right into iTunes with the push of a button!

Nope, it doesnt automatically detect tempo from itunes library. BUT, its the best tapper Ive tried and it makes short work of adding bpm to an itunes library. Ive got many bucks invested in so-called "automatic" counters that just plain dont work. Seems to be a trend in Apples app store. However, after loading this little jewel I zipped through 500 tunes in manually and Im happy with the results. Its easily worth $3. I noticed several reviews with grumbles about lack of documentation, must have been the earlier version. This version has perfectly usable documentation available under the "help" button on the menu bar. Yah, I like it.

Does one thing - well I needed to create workout playlists based on BPM. Tried some other programs and widgets - this was my 3rd purchase today and it is the one that will be used going forward. Simple -Open the itjBPM app -Open itunes and go to first song & Play -Tap along with the PERIOD KEY -You will see the BPM in the little box -Once you are confident it got your taps (usually 4-8 taps) - hit SEMICOLON ( ; ) -BOOM - it is now in your iTunes for that song. From there it becomes easier -Use the BRACKET KEYS - [ ] to move forward and back — until you are on next song -if you hit RETURN it will reset your BPM and begin tapping again on period. *******AND YOU CAN CHANGES THESE in ItjBPM Preferences ********* This is not life-changing - but I am getting very solid music BPM data and it is not in my iTUNES Hope you enjoy!

Previous to purchasing itjBPM, I downloaded another BPM app that was a port of a Windows application. That free app had all the problems associated with Windows to Mac ports - slow, bad user interface, frequent crashes, etc. It did a decent enough job, but got the BPMs wrong on enough songs that it wasn’t useful. I downloaded ltjBPM because of the reviews, and am very happy. The user interface is excellent. It is simple, intuitive and easy to understand (once you read the documentation.) The programmer obviously spent a lot of time making the interface as simple and logical as it is. It is very Mac-like: everything works as you would expect, and there is no strange behavior when the user does something unexpected. As a previous reviewer said, you can calculate the BPMs on many songs very quickly. Once you get used to the UI, you can easily calculate the BPMs of several hundred songs an hour.