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🎧 Music Library BPM Orchestrator

Small CLI tool to download, analyze, tag and organize MP3 music files by BPM.
It integrates with Archive.org and provides a manual BPM tap interface using pygame.


✨ Features

  • 🔎 Search and download music from Archive.org
  • 🎵 Manual BPM tapping interface (keyboard or buttons)
  • 🏷️ Write BPM metadata into MP3 files (ID3 tag)
  • 🗂️ Automatically rename and organize files into BPM ranges
  • 📚 Process local folders of MP3 files
  • ⚡ CLI built with Click

🚀 Installation

Install from pypi.org or pypi.org in your environment.

To test that it was installed properly run:

music-tapper

🚀 Installation (local dev)

This project uses Poetry.

poetry install

Run commands inside the virtual environment:

poetry run music-tapper --help

🎛️ CLI Usage

  1. Download music from Archive.org

Supports filters:

  • --text
  • --artist
  • --genres
  • --subjects
  • --year-from
  • --year-to
poetry run music-tapper download \
    --text "swing jazz" \
    --artist "count basie" \
    --year-from 1930 \
    --year-to 1945
  1. Process local folder
poetry run music-tapper from-folder ./my_mp3s

This will:

  • Open BPM tap UI
  • Save BPM to MP3 metadata
  • Rename file to (BPM) Artist - Title.mp3
  • Move it into /library//

🎹 BPM Tap Controls

Inside the UI:

Key / Button Action
SPACE Tap BPM
ENTER Save BPM
ESC Exit
[> ] Play
[||] Stop
[R] Restart track
[>>] Skip track

📁 Output Structure

library/
├── 100-140/
├── 140-180/
├── 180-200/
└── 200-260/

Each file is renamed automatically using metadata.

🧠 Dependencies

  • pygame – playback & UI
  • mutagen – ID3 tagging
  • requests – Archive.org API
  • click – CLI

⚠️ Notes

  • Designed for educational and personal use
  • Be respectful with Archive.org bandwidth (the tool already throttles requests)
  • Metadata quality depends on source files

🛠️ Future Ideas

  • 🌐 Web UI (Flask + React)
  • 🔎 BPM database browser
  • 🤖 Automatic BPM detection
  • 🧾 Export to CSV / JSON

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