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These days beatmatching is considered central to DJing, and features making it possible are a requirement for DJ-oriented players.

In 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 turntable was released, whose comfortable and precise sliding pitch control and high torque direct drive motor made beatmatching easier and it became the standard among DJs.

With the advent of the compact disc, DJ-oriented Compact Disc players with pitch control and other features enabling beatmatching ( and sometimes scratching ), dubbed CDJs, were introduced by various companies.

More recently, software with similar capabilities has been developed to allow manipulation of digital audio files stored on computers using turntables with special vinyl records ( e. g. Final Scratch, M-Audio Torq, Serato Scratch Live ) or computer interface ( e. g. Traktor DJ Studio, Mixxx, Virtual DJ ).

Other software including algorithmic beatmatching is Ableton Live, which allows for realtime music manipulation and deconstruction, or Mixmeister, a DJ Mixset creation tool.

Freeware software such as Rapid Evolution can detect the beats per minute and determine the percent BPM difference between songs.