Beatunes

[Kim Veller]

HiI use beTunes for quite a while. Very helpful. Before I used Tune Sweeper to edit tags. I was so naiv to believe that it works. It messed up quite a few tags. A software that tags "Dancing Queen" by ABBA with a Glen Campell song is BAD. You don't see a "before" and "after" to check. Can beaTunes edit wrong tags by fingerprinting them (analyse tool)? If not, could you recommend a reliable tag editor that automatically suggests right tags? Music Brainz Picard is pretty reliable but it does not interact with the Apple Music app.

beaTunes can do metadata lookup based on audio fingerprints. But that's not guarantee for accurate metadata, for a bunch of reasons. One being, that many songs are released multiple times on different albums, which makes it close to impossible to guess the "right" album.

I will follow your advise and if I find suspicious entries in my intelligent playlist (cleaned by TuneUp) I can always use Picard Brainz in addition to Bea. Saving the Picard checked file within Picard (loaded from finder) is enough for the Apple Music App. It automatically takes over the new information.

What setting did you use during BPM analysis? Was "Use online resources" on or off? If it was on, I recommend running it again with it turned off. A common mistake in BPM estimation is the so-called "octave-error", where the algorithm is off by a factor of 2 or 0.5. Perhaps that's the issue here. You may have to turn "Replace existing values" on as well.

"BPM by mood", simply means that you have enabled a secondary sort order - first by tempo, second by mood. You can change that by clicking on the table header. See also, for example, -beatunes-5223.html

My understanding is that beatunes maintains a database rather than embedding items into song files. If so, do I need to migrate the current beatunes database or can these tags be embedded I have mainly MP4a and MP3 files.

I have not been able to test this myself, but from what I hear, beaTunes should run on an M1 without problems, but not natively. I.e. it will use Rosetta2. Please report any issues you might encounter.

When using beaTunes in conjunction with Music.app or iTunes, beaTunes will communicate all changes to Music.app/iTunes, if Music.app/iTunes supports the changed property. Note that for example the Key is not supported by these programs. Key is therefore stored in the beaTunes database and, if so configured, also in the file (i.e. values are embedded). You can read more about it here. So if you turned on embedding before analysis, all data should also be stored in your audio files and not only in your database.

As stated above, if all fields were embedded, i.e. embedding was turned on before analysis, you could simply create a new beaTunes database on your new computer and beaTunes should find all the interesting values in your audio files.

About copying a beaTunes database: When using a Music.app/iTunes-based library, beaTunes uses the persistent ids from Music.app/iTunes to connect values in the database to tracks in Music.app/iTunes. When you create a brand new Music.app/iTunes library on a new computer, Music.app/iTunes will assign new persistent ids to each track. I.e. whatever is in the beaTunes database cannot be connected to that library anymore. If you wanted to simply copy the beaTunes database (which is possible), you need to make sure that Music.app does not create a new library, but uses your old one and that all paths are identical.

I have though noticed that all the songs reflect the modified date of yesterday, as I thought it was changing a file attribute this would get changed, it did on my first trial runs, but then I had all of the other analyse settings enabled as normal runs.

sorry, for not getting back to you earlier. It seems that beaTunes wasn't able to talk yo Music.app anymore. I'd recommend restarting both Music.app and beaTunes and turning automatic synchronization on window activation (in beaTunes general preferences) off. This means, you should synchronize manually every now and then via File -> Synchronize.

I have had to create a new account on my MacBook, and would like to move my other DB to this account. I had a big issue with Apple Music and froze the BeaTunes DB before it all started, so I had a record of the song library just in case.

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