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Analyze any audio file to detect its tempo (BPM) and musical key — entirely in your browser.

Your file is analyzed entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded to our servers.

Drop an audio file here

Or click to browse — we detect the tempo and musical key locally.

Choose a file

Supports MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A, FLAC and more.

Analyzing your track…

Tempo
BPM
Key

Pitch class profile

Relative energy per note

These results are automated estimates and may differ from the true tempo or key, especially for complex or ambiguous tracks.

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About BPM & Key Detector

The BPM & Key Detector analyzes any song and reports its tempo in beats per minute and its musical key. Drop in an MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A, or FLAC file and the tool decodes it, detects the beat spacing to estimate BPM, and correlates the harmonic content against key profiles to name the most likely major or minor key.

Results come with a confidence rating, half-time and double-time alternatives for the tempo, and a pitch class profile chart showing the relative energy of each note — useful context when a track is rhythmically or harmonically ambiguous. A copy button puts the BPM and key straight on your clipboard.

Everything happens locally in your browser using the Web Audio API: the file is decoded and analyzed on your machine and never uploaded. That makes it a fast, private way for DJs, producers, and remixers to find the key and tempo of a song.

How to use BPM & Key Detector

  1. Drop an audio file onto the page, or click to browse and choose one.
  2. Wait a few seconds while the track is decoded and the tempo and key are detected.
  3. Read the BPM, the detected key, and their confidence ratings.
  4. Check the half-time and double-time alternatives if the tempo feels off.
  5. Copy the results to your clipboard, or analyze another track.

Frequently asked questions

The audio is decoded in your browser, low-pass filtered to emphasize the beat, and the intervals between energy peaks are collected into a histogram. The most consistent interval becomes the tempo estimate, with half-time and double-time alternatives shown alongside.

The tool builds a chroma profile — the energy of each of the twelve pitch classes across the track — and correlates it against standard major and minor key profiles. The best match is reported as the key, with a confidence rating.

Tempo is genuinely ambiguous in many songs: a 75 BPM groove can be heard as 150 BPM. That is why the result includes half-time and double-time alternatives — pick the one that matches how you count the beat.

No. The entire analysis runs in your browser using the Web Audio API. The file stays on your device, which also means large files analyze quickly with no upload wait.

Yes, it is free with no account required. Because it runs client-side there are no processing costs, so you can analyze as many tracks as you like.

They are automated estimates. Straightforward tracks with a clear beat and tonality detect very reliably; complex, ambient, or modulating songs can fool any detector. Use the confidence ratings and the pitch class chart as a sanity check.


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