6 Best Free BPM Calculator Software For Windows

This article contains a list of best free BPM calculator software for Windows. BPM stands for Beats Per Minute which is the measure of audio tempo. These are the dedicated software which are designed to compute BPM values of songs. These tempo calculators fetch BPM values of songs in real time and display them on screen. Additionally, you can even tag calculated BPM values to songs’ metadata. In few of these, BPM results can be copied or exported to different formats like HTML, RTF, XML, etc. One of these can also be used as a BPM changer.

The commonly supported formats to import audio tracks include MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, APE, FLAC, etc.

My Favorite BPM Calculator Software For Windows:

Mp3Tools is one of my favorite BPM calculator as it lets you find BPMs of multiple audio tracks at once. Also, you can tag BPM values to metadata of songs and export result tables too. PistonSoft BPM Detector is also a considerably good tempo calculator.

You may also checkout lists of best free Audio Pitch Changer Software, Audio Enhancer Software, and Audio Speed Changer Software for Windows.

Mp3Tools

Mp3Tools is a freeware with a set of audio processing tools. Using it, you can also find BPM of one or multiple songs.

How to calculate BPM of a song:

• Go to its Mp3 menu and click BPM calculator tool.
• Right-click on the new window and import a directory of songs. It will display songs with respective BPMs.
• If the BPM of any song is not displayed, you can right-click the song and use Calculate BPM option to find its BPM in real time.
• It also lets you add starting and ending time of audio tracks to scan for songs’ BPMs.
• It lets you save BPM values to metadata of the songs.
• You can export BPMs table as Excel, Word, XML, and HTML files.

You can also play songs in its own audio player. It supports common audio formats such as MP3, APE, OGG, Opus, FLAC, etc.

Some other tools provided by this software include Mixer, Tag Manager, Wave Recorder, MP3GainAnalysis, File Converter, File Cutter, Parametric Equalizer, etc.

PistonSoft BPM Detector

PistonSoft BPM Detector is a dedicated, free BPM calculator software for Windows. It lets you browse audio tracks using its own file explorer and view their respective BPM values. If BPM of a song is missing, you can use its Detect BPM option.

The good part of this software is that it even lets you tag BPM to audio metadata. You can configure digits after decimal point to view BPM values. It provides an Auto Folder Scan feature to scan a folder at specified intervals. You can even listen to music in its built-in audio player.

Abyssmedia BPM Counter

Abyssmedia BPM Counter is another dedicated BPM calculator for Windows. In my opinion, it is the best BPM calculator software as it quickly displays BPM of all added songs. You can also save BPM value inside song metadata information.

Using its inbuilt file explorer, you can browse a directory of songs. It will then fetch BPM of songs in real time and display them on its interface. You can save BPM value to ID3 tag by using Options button. Additionally, you can configure digits after decimal point, ignore decoding error, etc. settings.

It supports only MP3 and WAV formats.

foobar2000

foobar2000 is quite a popular audio player for Windows. It can also be used as a BPM calculator, but there is a trick to that. You need to install an additional plugin for that. You can download the plugin from here > BPM Analyser. You just need to double click the downloaded plugin to install it and then configure it with the audio player.

To calculate BPM values, add one or more songs to the software. Now, select songs, right click on them, and go to BPM Analyser > Automatically analyse BPMs option. It will then fetch BPMs of selected songs and display the values in a new window. Other options included in this plugin are Manually tap BPM for current track, Double selected BPMs, and Halve selected BPM.

foobar2000 is a nice audio player with audio visualization, equalizer, playlist manager, audio converter, audio tagging, etc. tools.

BPMinus

BPMinus is a dedicated, free BPM calculator for Windows. You can add multiple MP3, MP2, OGG, WAV, WMA, FLAC, etc. songs and check their respective BPM i.e. tempo values. You can click on an added song to play and it analyzes BPM of playing song in real time. That’s pretty simple.

It also lets you change BPM and save the changes in the song. Additionally, you can use pitch controller and equalizer to edit an audio.

VirtualDJ

VirtualDJ is another one of BPM calculator software for Windows. It is basically a DJ software which also displays BPMs of added songs. Use its inbuilt file explorer to add a directory of songs and it will automatically display BPMs of scanned songs. In case it doesn’t, you can select multiple tracks, right-click them, and go to Batch > Analyse for BPM option.

Other than BPM calculator, it provides Tag Editor, Video Editor, POIs Editor, etc. tools too.

Note: It is free for home use only.