/beats

Nodejs (javascript) app to extract amplitude data from sound file and infer beats.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Extract Peaks from Audio File

Nodejs app to process a sound file, identify peaks

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This project provides Node.js code to decode a sound file, identify peaks, and identify beats. There are some sample code available that demonstrate this using HTML5 webaudio api, but this uses a nodejs port of same api.

How It Works

  • Decode audio file (add one to your sounds folder)
  • Identify peaks
  • Identify beats

##Running

Note: To ensure correctness, the sound file is played back while being analyzed. ffmpeg is used to play back sound, and this must be installed.

To install ffmpeg on a mac

brew install ffmpeg

Start the application. (Note: you need sudo access)

node beats.js

Dependencies List

  • web-audio-api : implementation (partial) of the HTML5 web audio api, used to decode sound files.
  • underscorejs : functional programming helper library for data manipulation.

Next Steps

Beat extraction. The general approach is to identify peaks most repetitive peaks to be indicative of a beat, and then compute inter-peak interval. Two 60 peaks within a 60 second interval might correspond to 60 beats per minute.

License

MIT License