[LAU] Q: HOWTO: extract the beat times from an audio track

[James Warden]

> 
> > I want  to create an  animation for a  track my
> band recorded  and I'm
> > wondering how  to get it  in sync.  It's  a
> straight 4/4 piece  but we
> > weren't playing to  a click track so the  tempo
> varies slightly.  Most
> > of the advice  I get is "Open it in Audacity  (or
> similar) and eyeball
> > the beats from the waveform" but it would be very cool
> if there was an
> > app that could read the audio and spit out the beat
> times.  Is there?

you could try to import your audio into ardour and apply the rhythm ferret to it. It is supposed to do more or less what you're after.

J.