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beaTunes... How well organized is your iTunes Library? Are your artists always spelled the same way? Any R.E.M. vs REM? beaTunes can easily fix this and other problems with its unique inspection feature (license required for applying one-click solutions). Could your last mix CD's song order use some improvement? Let beaTunes re-arrange your playlist for you! Always wondered how you could take advantage of the BPM (beats per minute) field in iTunes? Let beaTunes fill in the blanks and help you while DJ’ing at your next party.

Here are some more examples of what you can do with beaTunes:

  • Automatically determine BPM (beats per minute) and store the result in iTunes
  • Automatically determine the musical key your songs are in
  • Sort existing playlists so that matching songs succeed each other
  • Create matchlists, i.e. playlists based on one or more sample songs
  • Browse songs from your music collection that match the currently selected song
  • Find all songs iTunes marks with an exclamation mark and remove them from the library

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0.18:
  • Fix for different release year inspection.
  • Fix for deletion of orphaned songs with iTunes 9.
REQUIREMENTS
  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
  • G4 or better (Intel highly recommended)
  • iTunes 8.0.2 or later
  • Java 5.0 release 7

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Developer:Tagtraum Industries, Inc.
Downloads:30,162
  - Version d/l:358
Multimedia & Design:MP3
License:Shareware
Date:03 Nov 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$31.95
RATING
****.
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beaTunes User Reviews (16 posts)Write A Review
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Feb 24 2009

CHUCK9  beaTunes 2.0

I get the impression they want $31.00 more if you want to use 2.00. That's a lot of money when you use it sparingly and just paid off the last version.

I short; there should be an upgrade price and not 'one size fits all.

I'm unhappy with this.

Charlie  
(Version 2.0)

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Feb 24 2009

MACUPDATE ADMIN  beaTunes Upgrade 2.0.0 $11.95

http://www.beatunes.com/beatunes-buy.html  
(Version 2.0)

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+4
Mar 8 2009

CHUCK9  I stand corrected! There is a very minimum upgrade for this newest version.

I should have read that (somewhere) that it was only $11 to renew. I'm right back on board and please forgive me.

Charlie  
(Version 2.0.2)

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+6

Jul 17 2008

ASTRAUB  in general there is a lot of potential, but also many shortcomings:

- I cannot tell the program to keep existing cover art even if the program wants to add another one. I either have no art and get a new one or I have to let it overwrite what is there. Ever heard that there can be multiple covers in a file?

- it is crash king! I had to turn off the "update when closing" function, as I nearly always lost all of my changes at the end, because the program crashed when writing back the data to iTunes.

If this becomes more stable and a bit more intelligent I will certainly buy it!  
(Version 1.2.12)

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Sep 3 2008

BEATUNES  Andreas,

1) beaTunes does not modify covert art at all.

2) beaTunes does not offer an "update when closing" function.

Maybe you meant to review another software?

If not, please email us at support (at) beaTunes.com - we'd love to figure out what's going wrong.  
(Version 1.2.13)

praisebury
+3
Sep 14 2008

ASTRAUB  Hi,

sorry about my previous comments - they were indeed about a different program. So just ignore my previous post.

Greetings  
(Version 1.2.13)

praisebury
+3

Apr 4 2008
****.

SOUNDFREAK  I have been using this soft for months. It helps me to manage my huge Libray (500 Gig of Mp3), and it helps a lot.

Helpful functionalities.  
(Version 1.2.8)

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0
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Mar 26 2008

STEPHEN HARRIS-SMITH  I had previous version. Great potential not much follow through. Constant crashing.  
(Version 1.2.8)

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Oct 2 2007

GETSOMESAUCE  Hi! I'm beaTunes. I love RAM. Munch, munch, munch. I love to eat up RAM and swallow it whole. Mac OS X Advanced memory management? Ha! I'll still take all available RAM with a side of virtual pageouts and eat them with fava beans and a glass of chianti.

This program is FANTASTIC at determining the BPM for your songs but it does suck the life out of Mac OS's memory system and it does crash. Often.

Despite this, it's a wonderful program with incredible potential. Thanks bea people!  
(Version 1.2.3)

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+2
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Oct 30 2007

BEATUNES  beaTunes 2 will feature improved memory management for large collections.  
(Version 1.2.3)

praisebury
+2
Nov 28 2007

SSNICKERER  =)  
(Version 1.2.6)

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0
Feb 4 2008

GETSOMESAUCE  Thanks again beaPeople! You're the best! I love watching this app mature.  
(Version 1.2.7)

praisebury
-1
May 6 2008

TIAGO  Funny thread...

So, where is beaTunes 2 ??? Will we ever get to see it in action???  
(Version 1.2.9)

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0
May 6 2008

BEATUNES  Yes, we'll see beaTunes 2 - hopefully in the summer. I really wish we'd be done already, but good things take some time...  
(Version 1.2.9)

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0
Jun 26 2008

BEATUNES  We started posting Early Access versions for beaTunes 2. See http://www.beatunes.com/news/labels/Early%20Access.html for details  
(Version 1.2.11)

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Sep 29 2007
***..

MASS2CHAOS  The program is really cool, but it keeps crashing when I try to enter lyrics. I'm using a MacBook 13" Mac OS X Version 10.4.10 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processors.  
(Version 1.2.3)

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Oct 19 2007

BEATUNES  Please contact us at support (at) beatunes.com We'd love to figure out why beaTunes crashes in your enviornment.  
(Version 1.2.3)

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0

Aug 8 2007

DOUG S.  It says you can automatically determine the BPM of a song, but last time I downloaded it I first had to choose a range. Is there a way to bypass this and just have beaTunes determine it for me?  
(Version 1.2)

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Aug 8 2007

BEATUNES  You are correct - one first has to choose a range. Typically 70-140 BPM covers most music. The reason for this is explained in our FAQ.  
(Version 1.2)

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0

Jun 20 2007

GLOBETROTTERDK  Peter Gabriel's "The Filter" is cross-platform (also Nokia phones) and free of charge. You can get it here:

http://www.thefilter.com/  
(Version 1.1.6)

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Aug 8 2007

DOUG S.  You seem to have forgotten to mention one tiny yet highly important fact:

The Filter is COMPLETELY different than beaTunes.

beaTunes analyses the BMP (beats per minute) and uses this information to create playlists. The Filter uses an online database that keeps data on the likes and dislikes of all it's users and uses that information to recommend songs to you.

The reason why I'd prefer something like beatTunes over The Filter is beaTunes relies only on you having iTunes and whatever tracks. The Filter requires a broadband connection, iTunes and the songs which have to be labelled how they choose.

They also say that even very common songs might not be recognised if the track info is different, which can be even by a character. Also, if you're someone like me who has an extremely large collection of music, you're bound to have quite a bit of stuff they do not have in their database, making it useless.

From now on before you make comments about why to choose one free software over another, make sure you're comparing two software that actually do the same thing. Try Tangerine! if you want to compare beaTunes to something.  
(Version 1.2)

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0

Oct 3 2006
*****

BANGO  I got very friendly and fast support from the developers. Now it works as promised und I love it!

The problem I had, had nothing to do with beatunes, but with a corrupted DivX installation.

By the way: "The Inspector" is an awsome bonus-feature beside the BPM-Detection, since it helps me to correct Id3-Tags very fast and to delete dead entries in my iTunes-Library!

Thumbs up!  
(Version 1.0.7)

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Sep 28 2006
****.

BANGO  I love the Idea of beaTunes. Its a type of tool I am always looking for, because it helps cleaning my huge collection and moreover provides another way to create auomatically built playlists.

BUT: So far it did not work with my iTunes-Library on my external HD. It just does not save/sync the results...

I'd buy it, if I knew it just works on my G4 powerbook. The Shareware method limiting time I do not like. If I just could do a max of 10 files, I could try subsequent versions and test them on my PB.  
(Version 1.0.7)

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Sep 29 2006

BEATUNES  We have tested beaTunes with external harddrives and it should work fine (granted that the hd is connected during analysis). Please feel free to send us your log files from ~/Library/Logs/beaTunes/ and we will investigate what went wrong.

support (a) beatunes.com  
(Version 1.0.7)

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0
Oct 3 2006

BANGO  I got very friendly, competent and fast support from the developers. Now it works as promised und I love it!

The problem I had, had nothing to do with beatunes itself, but with a corrupted DivX installation.

By the way: "The Inspector" is an awsome bonus-feature beside the BPM-Detection, since it helps me to correct Id3-Tags very fast and to delete dead entries in my iTunes-Library!

Thumbs up!  
(Version 1.0.7)

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+1
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