beatmachine

The Beat Machine is a library for remixing songs by procedurally editing their beats, inspired by the creations on /r/BeatEdits. It works both as a library and as a command-line utility.

Installation

The beatmachine library is available on PyPI:

$ pip install beatmachine

Quick Reference

CLI

A simple CLI is available that reads effects from JSON files. See the docs for more info on how to define these.

The basic usage is:

$ python -m beatmachine -i in.mp3 -e <JSON string or file describing effects> -o out.mp3

Python API

A new Beats class is available that wraps most basic functionality. If you want to get started quickly, this may be for you!

Here's a sample:

import beatmachine as bm

# This takes a while with the defaults!
beats = bm.Beats.from_song('in.mp3')

# The consolidate() method returns a PyDub AudioSegment, which we can use
# however we want.
beats.apply(bm.effects.RemoveEveryNth(2)).consolidate().export('out.mp3')

# The Beats class is immutable, so we're free to use it again.
beats.apply_all(bm.effects.RemoveEveryNth(2), bm.effects.CutEveryNth()).consolidate().export('out_2.mp3')