bpm.js

Calculate bpm from a raw audio stream. pure js. non blocking.

Installation

Install with npm

$ npm install bpm.js

Example

var bpmSink = require('bpm.js')
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn

createAudioStream("track.mp3")
.pipe(bpmSink())
.on("bpm", function(bpm){
  console.log("bpm is %d", bpm)
});


// needed to convert mp3 to proper format
function createAudioStream(filename) {
  var args = "-t raw -r 44100 -e float -c 1 -".split(" ")
  args.unshift(filename)
  var sox = spawn("sox", args)
  return sox.stdout
}

Tests

$ npm test

To make the tests pass install the following native dependencies:

apt-get install sox
apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3

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This source code was human-transpiled from the C version here:

http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools/

License