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- xDiloveyouu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21aw, mac only. =( wished i had a sexy white mac now.
- HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14You have been spamming in comments all day. A quick look at your commenting history tells all. Everybody, please mod this jackass down. It also appears he uses bots and alt accounts to digg/submit stories here. Thank you.
- mostman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Very slick little application. Been waiting for someone to do something like this. Waiting for it to get through my entire library before really giving it a run through.
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I have 19,251 songs (121.06GB), but you don't hear me bragging about it.
Oh wait. - TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The UI is very nice looking, can't wait to test out the results, 8000 songs to scan.
- Kiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6its actually damn fast, did my 4000 songs in 20 mins. As they say on the site, thats faster than copying them
- or8it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, this is a great app with a really nice UI
- rprouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Now I'll have to run out and buy a Mac just for this. I have tried Window's tools to calculate the BPM, but they all ended up messing up my IDv3 tags.
- ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Seedless watermellon was done first because it was easy. Not because we threw more research at it than at curing cancer.
Besides, with little DNA projects on fruit and bugs and other creatures, we have learned more about life in general. I now this had nothing to do with your point though. - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No matter how much you have, someone out there has more.
Except for Gates, I guess. Bastard! - dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You need to watch more Are You Being Served!
"Tell Mr. Humphries to meet me at 5 o'clock behind the band stand and I'll take all the woo he can pitch!" - stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WOW! Pretty app!!!
- RayBan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I second that. Anyone know of a windows application that does the same thing or is similar to it?
- TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well i said 8000 so that i can come back and reference how long that would take. estimates 1hour and 30 mins about, seems to jump around a bit.
- MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I wish I had my music on my mac... partition.
- eean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This name is already being used as a DAAP/iTunes server:
http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine - heresy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nevermind, it says 3 songs per second on a 1.83Ghz Core Duo iMac.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Better yet, click on the little circle-cross beside the nickname. If enough people do this, he will get banned.
- heresy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How long does it take to scan?
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2RTFA!
- jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I haven't played with the application too much yet, but the .dmg is very nice looking :)
http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture12cp8.png - mostman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm guessing that it can't analyze the DRM'ed files because it would need to open them - which it obviously can not. I have around 3000 songs - maybe 750 of them are DRM'ed. This means that a large portion of my library can not be accessed. Bugger.
Update - from their site:
Now, some clarifications that were sorely missing in the original post: Tangerine is Tiger only and it cannot (at least not yet) analyze iTunes purchased tracks due to the DRM. - NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's an equivalent for Windows:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MixMeisterBPM/
Used it on my Music Library (~2500 tracks) with good results. - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i can't make my own playlists. i have about 5,100 songs in my music library on my work computer, though i just copied 108gb of music (~31,400 songs) that are waiting to be imported. that's probably a little bit over 90% of my music library.
there is no way i could create a half-way decent set of playlists. i typically just add a handful of artists to a temporary playlist, depending on what genre i feel like listening to. of course, many bands "mix it up" a little bit on some songs, so just playing all songs by an artist doesn't guarantee all the songs are what i'm in the mood for.
i'm not a lazy *****, and this application is by no means a waste of time. - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice looking program but it definitely can't sort the heavy songs from the soft ones. I just did a few songs and it tagged a fairly heavy Adema song at 73 BPM while giving a relatively light 10,000 Maniacs song 173 BPM.
- nightstrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does this work with iTunes-purchased music? It doesn't seem to be on my machine.
Otherwise a pretty slick program... - tangerine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How could I NOT digg this?
A wonderful app to boot!
Too cool - gimlinz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's already a product out called BeaTunes which does this.
http://www.beatunes.com/ - tashpool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just saw that myself - bugger. Most of my songs are iTunes bought so it's not that great for me atm. Great idea though, hopefully with a future release I can get some more use out of it!
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a pretty nice app. I like the way it presents the tracks in the form of a graph using the album art and it allows you to determine how many minutes you want the playlist to be (great when working out for a certain time). It didn't take that long to scan my songs either.
- yalooze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Wow, this program looks awesome. But could someone link me up with a windows app that does the same thing? Thanks.
- kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3even phd students at mit aren't producing wonderfully accurate automatic bpm detection. musicbrainz and community managed BPM values are the way to go, in my opinion..
could be fun when used with my project
http://digg.com/gadgets/personalsoundtrack - hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Now, some clarifications that were sorely missing in the original post: Tangerine is Tiger only and it cannot (at least not yet) analyze iTunes purchased tracks due to the DRM."
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to DJ and know the BPMs of some songs from the top of my head and can tell that many of its calculations are WAY off. Cool app though.
- behemoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Speed has no real relation to how heavy a song is. Are you sure it isn't right?
- kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sorry, i guess capitalization matters:
http://digg.com/gadgets/PersonalSoundtrack
basically, you could have tangerine analyze your songs, and then you could put your songs on personalsoundtrack since it looks like they are modifying the idv3 tag, which is what my app reads from as well. if their 'beat intensity' data isn't proprietary, i could make use of that as well... collaboration anyone? :) - Dithre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That ***** be ugly yo.
- mastastealth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It looks nice, but I was confused there a bit. There is already another project called Tangerine that acts as a DAAP server, also with your iTunes collection. Although this one is cross-platform:
http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine
Either way, hopefully they will port this to Windows soon... - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I'm practically laughing at the windows users complaining. I'm so used to having annoyance thrown at me for wanting apps on my Mac.
- bryantthesmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"The Filter" is very similar to this. You give it a few similar songs and it builds a play list with songs with a similar "mood".
http://www.thefilter.com/ - Alliouaganarama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm just a plain end-user, not a geek/programmer/developer, and I downloaded the beta (0.9.4 (2887) just out of interest to see if it would help me to identify tracks for my daily run (I usually just shuffle tracks at random on my iPod, and the theory is that I try to remember which tracks had the right tempo to run with, and at the end of the run I put those tracks in a "Running" playlist . . . but I either forget the tracks, forget to put them in the playlist, or find they are already there from a previous run).
Comments /questions so far (perhaps these will all be explained in a future "Help" file or some other documentation?)
- it all looks beautiful
- it sure is pretty fast (on my G4 PowerBook - about 2 seconds per song! 2011 tracks in 26 minutes, it now tells me)
- as soon as the program is loaded it runs, and it is not clear to the user just what it is doing and why
- what is the "New Playlist" that appears, and why would I want to save it?
- and why does an apparently random series of about 10 boxes representing tracks appear in the window? They don't change as the program continues analyzing, so what does it mean and what is its utility?
- what is "beat intensity" by the way (I can kind-of guess, but I wonder how you define it and measure it!)
- the vertical scale of 0 to 180bpm is self-explanatory, but it disappears off the left side of the window as you scroll - some horizontal scale bars going all across the window would make it more informative
- when I "Save BPM values to iTunes" where does this information go exactly? Will it also be on my iPod? Will it use up a significant amount of space on my iPod?
- it is analyzing 2011 songs out of the 2368 in my library . . . reading the diggit entries, I guess the others are DRM-protected songs from the iTunes store?
Thanks for a great idea and a great product! - Roybertito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OH MY GOD GOOD LOOKING APP. And that's one of the best-looking icons I've ever seen for any app ever. Hell, it even looks better than my previous favorite icons, NewsFire's and Seahorse's.
And its notification sound is beautiful, plus it natively supports Growl - always pluses.
Oh, and it's useful - you know, not just eye candy (iCandy?) like half of the apps on my computer. XP - LordChurchill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0O ? Someone should sue Apple for the greivious injustice visited upon we who bought our iPods for the joy of audiobooks as well as music. BPM doesn't do a damn thing for me. Books Per Mile would. iTunes has a catagory there for AUDIOBOOKS. its tough to pull off with a Mac. Impossible so far as I see with Windows.
Sucks. - steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1These guys are Apple Mac guys there won't be a Windows version anytime soon.
Tangerine is pretty cool, i'm still waiting for all the BPM's to be figured but some intersting new playlists could be creater from that info, i just hope it stays free, either that or there's always next months Serial.box. for us pirates. Mac Developpers like to make you pay, or like to make you find a serial, either way i don't make enough to have a credit card and i don't trust paypal, so there. - wertrose, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13rd on the need to port this for windows )c:
Looks cool and makes me envious of anyone with a mac now. Wish I had it for work out music. - igutekunst, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5no windows. :-(
- steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Oh, man i only have 1200 songs, plus tv quotes, comedy acts, and podcasts of course but wow 8000 songs that crazy.
- ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1So it's *****? Glad I don't own a Mac =P
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