Tempo Finder

Songs are all based on a specific rhythm, and playing a song means you need to keep up the pace with all other instruments. This standard rhythm is the tempo, and modern computer applications can help you with these values. For instance, Tempo Finder makes it possible to tell the tempo of nearly any song.

On the bright side of things, the application doesn’t take you through a setup process, so you’re free to run it as soon as setup is done, and you can even carry it around on a thumb drive in case you want to use it on other computer. Just make sure that the target PC is fitted with Java Runtime Environment, because it doesn’t work otherwise.

All the application has to offer is found in a pretty compact window. There are several fields which tell the average and last tempo, thus making accommodation a walk in the park. You might end up scratching your head for a while, mostly because it doesn’t contain a metronome to help you understand the values of a tempo.

Figuring out the tempo of a song is not as easy as it looks, and you need a great deal of practice and knowledge with tempo values and audio formats. There are no load options, so you need to use other applications to play songs of interest. The application is only the environment to work with, and doesn’t automatically detect the tempo.

Functionality is entirely manual, in the sense that you need to gradually hit the beat button based on what you hear, while the application displays the average and last tempo, so accuracy is not completely delivered. You can have the window background color changed with every beat counted.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Tempo Finder comes with good intentions, but isn’t really packed with the expected set of features to accurately tell the tempo of songs. Most effort is on your behalf, since you need to figure out how often to press the beat button just to get an idea of the tempo.