Arrangement & Structure

Arrangement Energy Arc

Drop a track and see its shape — where it builds, peaks and sags. The arc is measured from the file itself, then read back to you in plain English with a fix for every problem. See your song's shape, find where it sags, fix the structure.

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It doesn't change your analysis. It helps us build a free, anonymous benchmark of how real tracks are shaped — which later powers a genre overlay. Your audio never leaves the browser.

② The arc
Energy over time
Energy Loudest Quietest stretch
Section boundaries are estimated — drag a divider to move it, or click a label to rename it.
Duration
Intro length
to first sustained lift
Peak at
loudest moment
Dynamic range
short-term loudness, BS.1770
③ What to change
Structure read
Every flag below is measured from your file — no genre assumptions — and comes with one concrete move.
On the roadmap
  • Section-by-section breakdown — energy, length and role of each part
  • Two-version A/B overlay — compare a remix against the original arc
  • Genre overlay — your arc against how real tracks in your genre are shaped
  • PDF export — the arc + the fixes, ready to share with a collaborator

These are free while we build them. The genre overlay switches on once enough tracks have been measured to draw an honest benchmark — we won't show a made-up line before then.

Related tools

How the arc is measured

The tool decodes your file in the browser and walks two loudness envelopes across it: a short-term loudness curve using the ITU-R BS.1770 standard — the same loudness math streaming platforms use — and a finer RMS envelope for shape detail. Together they trace how the energy of the track rises and falls from the first second to the last.

Section boundaries are placed where the energy changes sharply. That is an honest estimate, not a claim about song form — so the tool labels each section generically and lets you drag the dividers or rename them. It will never tell you "this is your chorus" and pretend it knows.

Nothing is uploaded. The audio is read with the Web Audio API on your device; only anonymous shape metrics — intro length, peak position, dynamic range — are counted so we can build a free genre benchmark over time.

Common questions

Does my audio get uploaded?
No. Decoding and analysis happen entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device — only anonymous result metrics are counted, never the audio.
How does it find the intro, build and drop?
It measures the loudness envelope, then marks boundaries where energy changes sharply. Those boundaries are estimates you can drag or rename — the tool doesn't claim with false confidence which section is which.
What does it actually flag?
Intro length versus streaming skip-risk, monotony (energy that never moves), whether there's a real build into the peak, whether the peak lands too early or too late, and the shape of the ending — each with a concrete fix and a timestamp.
Is it free?
Yes. The arc, the structure diagnostics and the worst-section flag are free with no signup. Deeper breakdowns and overlays are on the roadmap above.