beaTunes is a commercial software package for
Microsoft Windows
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and
Mac OS X
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, developed and distributed by tagtraum industries incorporated. The software has a free trial and costs $34.95.
Features
beaTunes was originally designed as a companion app to iTunes that can detect and edit the BPM in music from iTunes. Since version 3, beaTunes is not dependent on iTunes anymore and supports
harmonic mixing
Harmonic mixing or key mixing (also referred to as mixing in key) is a DJ technique of matching the musical key of tracks in a DJ mix to avoid dissonance and create harmonious mixes or mashups. Tracks may be matched if they are in the same ...
and
Beatmixing
Beatmatching or pitch cue is a DJ technique of pitch shifting or time stretching an upcoming track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track, and to adjust them such that the beats (and, usually, the bars) are synchronized—e ...
through BPM and key detection. It can also correct and update information about music files, remove duplicates, create playlists, correct inconsistent artist names, and add key and volume balancing. It supports
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...
and
AAC
AAC may refer to:
Aviation
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* American Aeronautical Corporation, a company from Port Washington, New ...
formats. Keys are displayed in either their musical notation or in
Open Key Notation.
Reception
beaTunes was given 3 out of 5 stars from Softpedia and an 8 out of 10 from MacTech.
See also
*
Harmonic mixing
Harmonic mixing or key mixing (also referred to as mixing in key) is a DJ technique of matching the musical key of tracks in a DJ mix to avoid dissonance and create harmonious mixes or mashups. Tracks may be matched if they are in the same ...
*
Beatmixing
Beatmatching or pitch cue is a DJ technique of pitch shifting or time stretching an upcoming track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track, and to adjust them such that the beats (and, usually, the bars) are synchronized—e ...
*
Music Theory
Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...
*
DJing
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music fes ...
External links
Official website
References
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Audio mixing software
Proprietary cross-platform software
Macintosh software
Windows software