BeatRoot is an audio beat tracking and modelling application. In 2006, it won the MIREX prize.1
The application is written in Linux/C++, with a Java-based user interface. The code is open source.2
BeatRoot accepts file input in either digital audio or MIDI format. uses two simultaneous processes to model the rhythm of a piece of music, one to establish the tempo of the piece and one to synchronise a beat to the music. Since these two processes may at times be at odds, a system of multiple agents model their respective results and arrive at an optimum solution for the music being studied.23
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Homepage: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond/beatroot/
- Tim Crawford; Lorna Gibson (1 October 2012). Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4094-8603-9.
- Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi (31 October 2008). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition. IGI Global. pp. 280–282. ISBN 978-1-60566-027-1.
- Dixon, Simon. "Evaluation of the Audio Beat Tracking System BeatRoot" (PDF). Journal of New Music Research. 36 (2007/2008). Retrieved 20 March 2015.