BPM Player
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Drop the class playlist on the window. Each song brings the BPM from its tags, or the app detects one.
Teach the whole class on one tempo.
Drop your playlist, type the tempo your students can dance to today, and every song plays at it, in its original key. Next week, type a faster one.
Download for macOS
Free · Apple Silicon · plays music files, not streaming
The problem.
Your students learn the pattern at 88 BPM. The songs you love for it run at 96, 104 and 112. So you pick slower songs you like less, or you pitch a song down and the singer sounds drunk, or you let them struggle at full speed.
How it goes
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Type today’s tempo, for example 88.
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Play. Every song runs at 88, in its own key. Next song, same pulse.
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Next week, type 94. Same songs, a little faster.
BPM-Player
#TitleOrig. BPM
⊺ Drop a Reference Track Here (Key 1 = Play/Pause)
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1
Ammar El Shariey – Souk Al Abeed
129÷2×2
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2
Anie's Group – Love Has Gone (Instr.)
87÷2×2
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3
Bell'a Njoh – Ebolo
112÷2×2
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4
Bosmic Otim – Lanyok
104÷2×2
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5
Boy Ge Mendes – Grito de bo Fidje
76÷2×2
The target stays where you put it. Today it’s 88 — next week it might be 94.
What matters in class
- One tempo for the whole playlist. Not per song, not a percentage: the number you type is the tempo every song plays at.
- The routine’s song on top. Park the song your choreography is set to in the reference slot and switch to it with one key, at the same tempo.
- Hear the real speed. Hold Space and the song drops back to its original tempo. Release, and you’re at practice speed again.
- Keep the playlist running. Turn on Loop and it starts over after the last song.
- Control it from the floor. Play, pause and skip work from the media keys, even while another app is in front.
Try it out! Drop a track here in the browser.
BPM-Player
#TitleOrig. BPM
⊺ Drop Audio Files Here (mp3 · wav · flac · m4a · ogg)
1Drop track here
2Change BPM
Space (hold)Play at the track’s original tempo
EnterPlay / Pause
← →Previous / Next track
Double-click a rowPlay that track
÷2 / ×2Halve / double the detected BPM
Click the waveformSeek
Media keys, dragging a row into Ableton and opening a folder from the Finder are the app’s, not the browser’s.The same time-stretching the Mac app uses, loaded straight into this page. Your files never leave it — they are decoded in the browser and nothing is uploaded. The demo takes up to eight files at 60 MB each; the app opens a whole folder.
What it is and isn’t
- It plays music files on your Mac: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, M4A, AAC, OGG, Opus. Not Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.
- It plays whole songs. There’s no looping of a single section.
- Mac with Apple Silicon only.
- Stretching has limits: a song pulled far from its tempo starts to sound processed.
Get BPM Player 1.0.2
Free, no sign-up. The button goes straight to the DMG.
Download for macOS
macOS 12 Monterey or later
Apple Silicon M1 and later
Signed & notarized by Apple
MP3 · WAV · FLAC · AIFF · M4A · AAC · OGG · Opus
Questions
Does slowing down change the key?
No. Tempo and pitch are separate. A song slowed from 104 to 88 stays in its key.
Can I use it at a social or a milonga?
It’s made for class and practice. Many dancers and DJs don’t want stretched music on a social floor, and they have a point.
Where does a song’s tempo come from?
From the BPM in the file’s tags. Untagged songs get a detected value marked ~. If it’s double or half, ÷2 / ×2 fixes it.
Is it really free?
Yes. No account, no sign-up. The download button goes straight to the app.