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15th February 2010 - Link Blog

Revisiting the click track. Paul Lamere uses the new Echo Nest API to access analysis data for music tracks and plot the beats per minute, making it easy to spot bands or drummers using a click track or drum machine to stay in tempo.

Posted 15th February 2010 at 9:35 am

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