beaTunes - create better playlists in iTunes

It seems like there are quite a number of utilities popping up that are intended to make creating playlists in iTunes easier. Each takes a different tack, and one of the new ones, beaTunes, is worth noting. beaTunes is a completely separate interface that mimics iTunes to a certain extent. It does file analysis on your non-DRM music files (MP3s) to provide two primary pieces of information: the speed of the music in BPM (beats per minute), and the "color" of the music. Songs with similar color have mathematical similarities that make them more likely to sound similar to other similarly colored songs.

You select some or all of your tracks for analysis, and as beaTunes performs the analysis, it saves the results back to the file in the meta data fields. The color information is stored in a coded manner (non-readable) in the comments field for each song.

Once you've analyzed your music, you can filter your music based on song speed, or use the beaTunes interface to find songs of a similar color to group together into playlists.

beaTunes is free for 7 days, and costs $19.95 to purchase a license.

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