My laptop died a couple weeks back. When I got a new one I had to find all the software I used to have, and install it … the one thing I couldn’t get is a little beat counter called ltjBPM. It works very simply, you just start it up and then hit the full stop key on the keyboard in time with the music. (I’ve tried automatic beat counters that analyse tracks and supposedly work out the beat, but they only seem to work on the most basic 4×4 type tracks, which is a small minority of the tunes I play).
It used to be hosted on this link, but that link is now dead, and the website itself just shows a bagel or a donut or something. Not much use if you want a beat counter.
So I dug up the application from my old dead laptop’s hard drive. I’ve put it online here:
ltjBPM.zip (removed: see below)
I’m not in any way claiming this as my own – it’s not. I’m just trying to make sure people can use this app, because I can’t find it anywhere online, and it’s very useful – I use it on every new track I pick up before the radio show – makes picking out tracks in Serato so much faster if they all have a BPM count .. and you can chance on genre-blending mixes that you might not think of otherwise.
If you are the developer of this piece, please get in touch if you’d like me to take down the link. (But if so, please put it online somewhere yourself!)
UPDATE: The developer contacted me and let me know he’s working on a commercial version of the app, so has asked me to take the link down, so I have done. Looking forward to seeing the new and improved version!