Beat Detection (audio)

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Beat Detection (audio)

Jul 19th, 2008

Hey, this is my first post in the forums, and I'm fairly new to Python, so bear with me...

I'm looking at ways to detect the beat in an audio file.

I know that the general idea is to run a loop like so:

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while song is still playing:
   if low frequency is above a certain amplitude:
      call function dosomething

I'm pretty sure there is no built-in library that includes amplitude detection.
What would you pros recommend I use/do?

Thanks for the help in advance