metropy

Metronome with a minimal UI, written in Python 3 + ncurses.

Features:

• Change BPM
• Change Beats Per Bar
• Start/Stop metronome
• Customizable sounds (via --bar and --beat)
• BPM detector

Install

pip install metropy

Usage

usage: metropy [-h] [--bar BAR_SOUND] [--beat BEAT_SOUND] [bpm] [beats]

Metronome with Terminal UI in ncurses.

positional arguments:
  bpm                BPM (default is 60)
  beats              Beats per bar (default is 4)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --bar BAR_SOUND    Path of the bar sound (.wav)
  --beat BEAT_SOUND  Path of the beat sound (.wav)

Example

metropy

metropy --bar /path/to/bar/sound.wav --beat /path/to/beat/sound.wav

Sometimes ALSA reports problem but the metronome will work anyway.
As always, you can suppress the errors with:

metropy 2> /dev/null

What it looks like