beaTunes ~ build better playlists:
What started out as a BPM detection tool for DJs, runners and dancers, has become one of the finest iTunesâ„¢ library management tools around.
beaTunes’ powerful inspection feature let’s you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists’ names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod’s artist list!beaTunes can even help you to find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.
And once you have a clean collection, the built-in playlist generator works even better.
Experimenting with this tool. It might take the 2 week trial just to get through my library, but it has some seriously helpful features. I like the name normalization a lot, especially as it hunts up the anomalies for you, rather than expecting you to do it. Not sure how well the BPM stuff works, but it has been a wish of mine to have some good BPM data for exercise purposes. My early impressions aren’t all that strong: it assigned 192 bpm to a full album of Richard Thompson and it’s safe to say he wouldn’t get through a dozen tracks at the same pace.
I’m not sure what the color of music has to do with anything, but it claims to be able to derive it. More as it gets down to business.