Music Software: Mix mp3s with auto beat matching

[VideoBeagle]

Bare with me as I only know a little of what I'm talking about

I'm thinking I want to try to make up some mixes of various mp3s (or other format), matching them to a constant beat (and obviously outputting to a file)

Preferably, if it's something that can automate some of it would be great, as I kinda know the concept of what I want, but not the detailed mechanics (obviously from my questions )

Even something that can tell me what the bpm of a track is so I can try to manually adjust would be good.

Does something like what I'm talking about exist?

 

[palmharbor]

Bare with me as I only know a little of what I'm talking about

I'm thinking I want to try to make up some mixes of various mp3s (or other format), matching them to a constant beat (and obviously outputting to a file)

Preferably, if it's something that can automate some of it would be great, as I kinda know the concept of what I want, but not the detailed mechanics (obviously from my questions )

Even something that can tell me what the bpm of a track is so I can try to manually adjust would be good.

Does something like what I'm talking about exist?

Try Garage Bank in your applications folder...its not intuitive but try it anyway

 

[VideoBeagle]

Try Garage Bank in your applications folder...its not intuitive but try it anyway

Garage Band can't work with mp3s, at least when I've played with it in the past...is that different now?

 

[VideoBeagle]

Anyone else have recommendations/input?

 

[mscriv]

Anyone else have recommendations/input?

There are numerous professional DJ programs out there that can accomplish what you are talking about. I use a program called Virtual DJ for all of my DJ work. There is a free version, Virtual DJ Home, available for download. I believe the free version will at least let you see and possibly adjust the BPM's of the mp3 files you load into it.

I don't ever record my sessions so I'm not sure if Virtual DJ has this feature, but I know that there are other programs out there like Traktor that do have that capability.