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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

YULETIDE  Given all the mixed reviews that have floated to the top, I just wanted to throw out my two cents... which is that this application is just fabulous! I've been waiting for ages for something that could intelligently help me sort through the chaos of id3 tags and duplicate files that plague my growing-faster-than-I-can-listen-to-or-sort-properly music collection. At times it gives strange results when finding "duplicates", but those are easy enough to ignore, and I'm sure it will improve in future iterations. I'd jump to buy it a bit quicker if it were priced a bit lower (maybe 15?), but I'll probably still end up paying once the trial runs out :-)  
(Version 1.0.4)

ORGANIK  Beachball as soon as it launches. Not a good sign. Totally unusable on my dual 2ghz g5.  
(Version 1.0.2)

JOKKE  The version I downloaded (0.9) is not universal binary. furthermore it lock up on my macbook pro. too bad.  
(Version 0.9)

FLOPKA  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but whenever I use "Tap Beat" it asks me if I want to save the new BPM value I have determined, but when I say "OK," it doesn't save the new value but just reverts to the one I'm trying to change.

The only way I can change a BPM to its proper value is to use Tap Beat to figure out what it is, and then try to re-analyze the track in that range and hope it comes out right. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

Manually trying to change the BPM field doesn't work either. Changes don't take.

Using 10.4.6 with Intel-powered Mac Mini.  
(Version 0.8)

BRIAN KENDIG  This is a really promising program. It found lots of songs I had with typos in the artist's name, and if even found a bunch of iTunes entries for podcasts which were long gone from my music library, so I could go delete the orphaned entries.

The only downside right now is that it doesn't appear to sync its changes up with iTunes; changes I make in beaTunes aren't reflected in iTunes. Maybe this is a feature I haven't figured out how to use yet, but it's easy enough to let beaTunes find the problems and then to fix them myself in iTunes. Also, the beaTunes interface needs quite a bit more polish before it looks properly Mac-ish.

But, great start, and already very useful!  
(Version 0.8)

AGLZEN  First impressions: Very nice!

This could be the missing tool for those of us with giant iTunes Libraries. The BPM and Music color features seem interesting, and may or may not end up being useful, but when it spontaneously told me that I had several spellings for the same artist, and let me fix it with a click, I was sold.

Here's to hoping it keeps improving! (being able to hear songs inside the program would be a nice small feature.) If it's not too costly, you'll have a sale here.  
(Version 0.8)