potionfactory.com — The kids at Potion Factory are at it again. Their latest gorgeous app is Tangerine. Tangerine scans your iTunes library 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). (From TUAW.com)
Oct 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
stewacideOct 20, 2006
WOW! Pretty app!!!
thecheeksOct 20, 2006
well 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.
roybertitoOct 20, 2006
OH 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
tangerineOct 20, 2006
How could I NOT digg this?A wonderful app to boot!Too cool
Closed AccountOct 20, 2006
I 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.
eeanOct 20, 2006
This name is already being used as a DAAP/iTunes server:<a class="user" href="http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine">http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine</a>
alliouaganaramaOct 23, 2006
I'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!