Looking to find the tempo of a song that’s only in the YouTube video and figure out if it keeps subtly changing and be able to correct the timing so it can be locked to the actual tempo it’s supposed to be? I will accept if it comes from the “museum”, it’s just a one-off thing and it seems to have inspired me and is pulling me towards my physical modeling plugins again

Here’s the video:

 

Will this require a paid subscription or is that only for the download services/file hosts?

 

No, this is the only thing… I think I already have an installer lying around so I’m practically almost set up. Just have to get back to my MacBook cause I left it with my love while I’m visiting her, I’ll be back tonight for sure so I will be able to get going… just need a tempo correction tool if there’s one within Logic, Bitwig, Reason or something

 

I think Macs come with Python already, so just try opening the terminal and run pip install yt-dlp.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

The command to get the audio only is yt-dlp link-to-video -f 140

This will get you the best m4a available.

 

arcana wins

 

Last edited: Jan 23, 2026 at 6:42 PM

My favourite is Clipgrab. It uses the earlier mentioned GitHub yt-dlp, that it'll install automatically, and periodically updates.
The only difference is Clipgrab has a nice GUI for various audio & video filetypes.

https://clipgrab.org/