BeaTunes wants to hear from you. Welcome to beaTunes’s Tender. This is the home of all support for beaTunes. You can search our knowledge base articles, browse public issues in the discussion area, or create a new issue if you’re having trouble. BeaTunes is an iTunes companion app capable of automatically analyzing your music collection to help you build better playlists. It analyzes BPM (beats per minute), silence at the beginning or end of a song, and the color (based on frequency spectrum) of a given song. BeaTunes is a plug-in for iTunes that can reorganize your music library automaticaly and suggest you to create new albums and playlists if needed. BeaTunes scans and analyzes you media library according to several aspects of each track, such as color or bitrate and finally it suggests you how to order and power up your media library.

BeaTunes is a commercial software package for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, developed and distributed by tagtraum industries incorporated. It originally started as a tool for detecting the BPM in music managed by Apple's iTunes. Since version 3, beaTunes is not dependent on iTunes anymore and supports Harmonic mixing and Beatmixing through BPM and key detection. Keys are displayed in either their musical notation or in Open Key Notation.

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Tagtrum’s beaTunes (http://www.beatunes.com/) is a pretty cool iTunes tool for Mac and Windows users. It can detect various types of metadata, such as beats-per-minute and musical key, as well as find and fix typos and inconsistencies such as misspellings and rarely used genres.

After all, you can accumulate so many tunes in iTunes that inconsistencies and glitches appear. And if you rip CDs to the software, there may be missing info. BeaTunes can help with such shortcomings. It intelligently creates playlists of matching songs, corrects your iTunes Music Library (typos, wrong genres, a misnamed album, etc.) and more.

One of my favorite features is the ability to search for and add missing data such as album artwork, which is more comprehensives than those features in iTunes itself. BeaTunes also analyzes the color and tempo (BPM) of your songs and lets you create playlists based on this info. You can even blog about your playlists (though I have absolutely no desire to do this) and more. All of the changes are, of course, reflected in iTunes.

BeaTunes isn’t a plug-in; it’s app that works in tandem with iTunes. It offers drag and drop installation. Once you launch it, on-screen prompts leads you through an analysis of your iTunes library.

BeaTunes’ Library Inspection finds and alerts you to the discrepancies in the library. Then it’s your call as to what corrections/changes you’d like to make.

There are a couple of things that you should know about BeaTunes, though they’re not actually flaws in the software itself. It can be slow to launch initially if, like me, you have a big iTunes library. Also, BeaTunes can’t iTunes Store tracks if they have the FairPlay DRM embedded.

Otherwise, BeaTunes makes a fine buddy for iTunes.

Beatunes Vs Mixed In Key

A seven-day demo version is available at the product web site. Registration is US$31.95. BeaTunes requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Beatunes Band

— Dennis Sellers