# Rounding BPM value up or down
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 19, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980 "2009-09-19T17:26:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Windjammer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Windjammer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/1 "2009-09-19T17:26:46Z")
Hi Forum,
I use MixMeister to add BPM (Beats per Minute) information to all my tracks in the %BPM%-tag. This BPM value always comes out as a 2 decimal number in this format xxx.xx (ex. 123.45 or 12.34). iTunes will always only read the 2 or 3 first numbers before the . and just ignore the decimal points. This means that 123.99 will be read as 123 BPM and not 124 BPM which of cause is a lot closer to the true BPM.
I need a script to fix this problem for me. A script that rounds up/down to the closest integer. .00 to .49 rounded down and .50 to .99 rounded up to the next integer. Actually I only need the second part since iTunes just truncates the decimals anyway, but doing both will look nicer as a solution.
I'm pretty sure this can be done, just I'm not proficient enough to do it.
Kind Regards,
Matthias
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/2 "2009-09-19T17:52:43Z")
I found some threads:
[/t/7295/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/7295/1)
[/t/4368/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4368/1)
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### Author:  [@Windjammer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Windjammer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/3 "2009-09-19T19:16:20Z")
Thank you Dano for pointing that out, I did search for BPM using the search top right on this page but came up with no hits, guess I did something wrong...
//Matthias
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/4 "2009-09-19T19:28:21Z")
The search engine does not support words with less than 4 characters.
I used "round" as search term.
But you can also try Google with
site:community.mp3tag.de bpm
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### Author:  [@Grant](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grant)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/5 "2009-09-20T15:22:39Z")
I use MixMeister to add BPM as well. I haven't found a way to round, but I created an action to truncate/drop off the rounding. I mean, 0.25 BPM is meaningless anyway.
Go to Convert Menu.
Go to Action Group.
Make a new Action Group say, BPM Format.
Start a new Action.
Dialog box will read, "Select Action Type."
Scroll to Format Value.
Format Value dialog box appears.
Change Field to BPM (scroll down on the drop-down box).
Set the format string to $num(%bpm%,3)
Click OK, Ok, Ok, and you're done.
Reply to this thread and let me know if this worked for you.
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### Author:  [@EMCO](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/EMCO)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/6 "2024-12-07T21:41:09Z")
Thanks it works fine.
u can use also $num(%bpm%,2) for 10.?? to 99.?? also
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rounding-bpm-value-up-or-down/8980/7 "2025-01-06T21:41:18Z")
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