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Tangerine beta
The kids at Potion Factory are at it again. Their latest gorgeous app is Tangerine. Tangerine scans your iTunes library (very quickly) and analyzes the beat intensity of your tracks so that you can create playlists based on the intensity of the music (i.e. fast paced songs for working out, and slower songs for when you are pitching woo).At the moment the app is in beta, so it is free for download. If you blog about it you'll get a free license when the app is released.
Via Red Sweater Blog.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CQ said 3:05PM on 10-19-2006
Wow, interesting technology, id be curious to find out how accurate it is. If it works, instant work out mix!
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Matthew said 3:24PM on 10-19-2006
Love that icon.
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dulcie said 3:45PM on 10-19-2006
#1: Not very accurate yet unfortunately as it is picking doubling up some BPM readings, meaning that I have a Katie Melua track analysed as being 177 BPM. Trust me, Katie Melua has never played anything at 177 BPM in her life (probably). Many examples of this cropped up in my library, it seems to be where there is a prominent off-beat in the mix...
Great GUI and will be an all-round lovely app when its done, but the analysis software still needs a lot of refining yet...
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Mabsey said 4:03PM on 10-19-2006
I love the idea but for some reason, of the 8000 tracks on my iTunes only 10 have any data in the BPM field so this app is no use to me.
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DukeTogo said 4:33PM on 10-19-2006
Dude, it analyzes your songs...
I don't think it looks at BPM metadata tag.
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Simon Iannelli said 4:37PM on 10-19-2006
hm.. not working here. no item is displayed in the sources list, the preferences dialogue won't show and the app can't even be quit (i have to force it).. anybody?
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Mabsey said 4:40PM on 10-19-2006
Well, it analyzed my songs, crashed. Then, when opened analyzed again and came up with BPM of -1 for each song.
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Mabsey said 5:03PM on 10-19-2006
OK - it seems that when it crashed that messed up the analyzing and so, after choosing File > Rechoose iTunes Library it now works. As DukeTogo rightly points out, it doesn't use the BPM and now appears to be working for me fine.
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mroach said 5:10PM on 10-19-2006
I wonder what it will make of my Berzerker and Dragon Force.
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Eric Whitaker said 5:16PM on 10-19-2006
Yeah. It really does not do a very accurate job of analyzing BPM. It gave Tom Waits and Kate Bush some of the highest ratings. The ratings in fact look almost random. Really makes it all kind of worthless. I would LOVE to find a program that actually does do a good job of analyzing BPM. Anyone?
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Wojtek said 7:46PM on 10-19-2006
Eric - one of the most advanced apps that do beatsensing is Traktor DJ Studio from http://www.native-instruments.com. It does evene integrate with iTunes quite nicely, you will, however, come with a nuke to a gunfight with this one, as it is a fully fledged i/Power/mac/book/pro DJ'ing solution.
That said, I still appreciate this application for analyzing my 7k+ dance songs from my iTunes library overnight and tagging it appropriately, fully auto, nice job. Some false "speedgarage readings" occur from time to time, yet they're quite easy to spot and correct with a good, ol' hand-tapping to the rhythm.
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Robbie said 8:17PM on 10-19-2006
yup, didn't seem to cut it. seemed completely random. oh well.. but that icon sure is great.
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RP said 8:27PM on 10-19-2006
When I download it, it puts a .exe file with some random combo of letters and numbers. I don't know if this is a virus (for PC on a Mac program?). Has any one else found that?
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Jeff said 12:40AM on 10-20-2006
er..."pitching woo"??? Is that like flinging poo?
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Oly said 10:38AM on 10-20-2006
When it does get more accurate it's great for generating random running playlists based on BPM. Figure out a good pace, find the BPM that is close and then set up a smart playlist... I'm lovin what ive seen so far.
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Ben said 5:03PM on 10-21-2006
What OS does this need? On 10.3.9 it doesn't even open.
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moog said 5:24PM on 10-21-2006
This will be great when it works. At the moment the BPM's generated are little better than random numbers. Fantastic shop window, but nothing in it.
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