Here are 5 Software to find the best free song keys for Windows. This software is useful for music fans to find chords / key songs that help in understanding the tone, melody, chord and harmony of the song.
Most of these software detect the key of the song in real time using different algorithms. If a song already contains a key in its metadata, some software shows that too. You can even write the song key in the song metadata information in this software that we will mention. To import songs, this software supports MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, WMA, etc.
Apart from finding the song key, almost all of them detect the BPM of the song as well. In addition, information such as beat intensity, replay gain, artist, title, genre, etc., are also displayed in this software. Some software also provides a music tag editor feature that is useful for writing or editing song metadata information. Here are 5 software to find the best free song keys for Windows:
1. Rapid Evolution
Rapid Evolution is another good key finder software on this list. In addition to the song buttons, this software can also detect BPM, Beat Intensity and Replay Gain of music tracks. Plus, it can be used to add metadata tags to songs.
How to find the key of a song using Rapid Evolution:
- First, add one or more songs using its Import feature. It supports many music formats to import like MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, APE, MPC, etc.
- From the interface, select the song to find the key, right-click on it, and click on the option Detect > Key. As soon as you do that, it starts the estimation of the song key and once the detection is complete, you can view the respective key of the song on the interface. You can flag the detected clef for the appropriate song metadata.
From Options > Settings, you can adjust several preferences including Detect Settings. For key detection, you can enable/disable the option ‘detect start and end key’ and ‘detect advanced key’and also, you can adjust the percentage of audio samples to process.
Other configurable settings include library settings, data mining settings, similarity settings, etc. You can also play songs in its built-in media player. [Download Rapid Evolution].
2. Guitar and Bass
Guitar and Bass is another key finder software for Windows. It is different from other Software mentioned in this list. It doesn’t show the key of a particular song, but it can be used to find the chord in relation to the chord it belongs to. For this, you can use Tools menu > Key Finder. You can enter a chord and it will display a list of keys associated with the chord.
Guitar and Bass is basically software for learning instruments including guitar, bass, banjo, and mandolin. You can find many tools which help you to learn music. For example, Tuner, Metronome, Chord Finder, etc. You can find various exercises in it like scales, keys, ear training, etc. [Download Guitar and Bass].
3. KeyFinder
KeyFinder is a free open source music key finder software for Windows and Mac. This is a special software to find the key of a song to understand the scale and harmony of a song.
How to find the key of a song using KeyFinder:
- First, drag and drop the audio/song in the interface for which you want to find the key. When you do that, you will be able to see the basic metadata of the song like title, artist, album, comments, etc. If the song contains key information in its metadata field, it will display it in a different tag column.
- To find track keys in real time, select all or some songs and press the Run Batch Analysis button. You can then see the detected song keys on the interface.
- You can also perform detailed analysis with charts by right-clicking on a song. The graph shows the piano keyboard along with the mapping of data to musical notes. You can also select the color of the chromagram to view the graph.
- It also lets you write the detected keys to the song metadata.
You can edit multiple preferences including music range (starting frequency, number of octaves, etc.), spectral analysis, segmentation, etc.
It is a portable music key finder Software, so you can use it without actually installing it on your PC. [Download KeyFinder].
4. Mixxx
Mixxx is an open source DJ software for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This can be another alternative for you to find song keys. When you import your music library, it displays the song metadata which includes the Song Key as well (see screenshot above).
You can also see the song key at the top. Apart from the song buttons, it can also detect and display the BPM of a song. You can see lots of other metadata information like artist, title, album, genre, comments, etc. To view and edit song properties, right-click on a song.
This software provides many handy tools which include changing BPM, changing cover, etc. [Download Mixxx].
5. VirtualDJ
VirtualDJ is the flagship DJ Software for Windows and Mac. It can also be used as a song key finder software. To use it to detect song keys, import your local music collection. After that, select the song and it will display its metadata information in the side panel (as shown in the screenshot above).
Metadata includes BPM, Genre, Year, Title, etc, along with Song Key. If it doesn’t show the song key, you can right click a song and use the Analyze option for BPM etc. It will detect the key of the song and show it to you in the Key field.
It provides a useful Tag Editor for editing song metadata. So, you can write the detected song key to the song information. Apart from that, this software also provides additional tools such as BPM Editor, POI Editor, Track Cleaner, Video Editor, etc. [Download VirtualDJ].
That’s 5 Software to find the best free song keys for Windows. Of the 5 software above, I like KeyFinder the most because it is a special software that can find the key of a song and also allows you to write the key information taken for the song. Rapid Evolution is also another great piece of software for finding chords, BPM, replay gain, and beats.
