beaTunes - building better playlists

beaTunes is another in the growing collection of iTunes helpers. beaTunes is a downloadable program (written in Java) that works with iTunes to help make organizing your music collection and generating playlists a bit easier.  beaTunes does a couple of things for you:
  • Fix up your metadata - it will perform some basic text analysis to look for inconsistent spellings of artist, album, genre,  artists with inconsistent genre info, missing audio and such.
  • Detect BPM  - beaTunes can analyze your (Non-DRMd) music to find the beats-per-minute for each song and add the info to your iTunes music database, (iTunes already supports a BPM field, it just doesn't know how to populate it)
  • Generate similar playlists - beaTunes will generate interesting playlists by finding similar songs (based upon the BPM and a notion of song similarity)
beatTunes isn't the only BPM detector for iTunes.  There's a list of various detectors on Marcelino Martin's BPM Detection page.

There's a trial version of beaTunes that you can use for a week. If you want to use it for longer than that, you need to fork over $20.


Posted on: Oct 26, 2006

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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Another one that has come along recently is Tangerine. Haven't tried it yet, but some people say it "looks pretty."

Posted by Adam Lindsay on October 26, 2006 at 08:57 AM EDT #

What I need now is a recommendation engine to find out which iTunes plugins I should use to generate good recommendations. There are so many!

Posted by Colin Brumelle on October 26, 2006 at 12:44 PM EDT #

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