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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Tue/beatunes.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Tue/beatunes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89a63be --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Tue/beatunes.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[BeaTunes][1] is a new BPM-analyzing tool for Mac and Windows that helps you organize songs by beats per minute and build playlists you might not otherwise have considered. Similar to [Tangerine][2], beaTunes scans through you music collection and attempts to determine the BPM of each song.
It might take some time to scan your library so you're probably better off doing it in batches, rather than attempting everything at one time.
Once you've analyzed your library beaTunes can assign a color to each track which helps to visually arrange songs and makes it a little easier to create playlists. Unfortunately creating playlists is mainly a by-hand experience, I wasn't able to find anyway to automate the process save sorting a playlist by BPM.
Because it's written in Java, beaTunes can be a little slow at times and it's certainly a resource hog, currently sucking down about 112MB worth of RAM (iTunes by contrast is using about half that).
There's a couple of odd "features" in beaTunes, first off is the recommendation panel that can be displayed along the bottom of the window. There aren't many details available about the recommendations feature on the beaTunes site, but the data comes from Amazon and I'm pretty sure the program is using affiliate links, which means they get a cut of your purchase.
Now with websites affiliate links don't generally bother me, but with actual desktop software that's already charging $20 for a license, it seems a bit hucksterish to attempt to monetize a feature others give away.
The other odd feature is the "Blog This" tool which allows you to post a blog entry about the selection. The tool supports any Atom 1.0 compatible blog, but I can't help wondering who's going to use it?
If you're looking for a cross-platform BPM solution, beaTunes might be the ticket. But given the lack of speed and hefty resource consumption of the current release, Mac users would be better off with Tangerine.
[1]: http://www.beatunes.com/ "beaTunes"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/tangerine_is_a_.html "Monkeybites on Tangerine"
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