So, I hit analyse again and waited for a few hours, only to see that while my library had been imported, the key, colour (more on that later) and danceability data was missing. I couldn’t find any information about this in the FAQ, so I contacted the developer and he quickly pointed me in the right direction. I hadn’t realised that on the “Analyse” page, I hadn’t opted in to have these values determined. Third time lucky, my tracks were analysed successfully and all the data was there. This left me thinking that it might be useful to implement a set-up wizard for when you first open the app. Either that or have the key, colour and danceability analysed by default. It would have saved me a lot of time, each time I analysed my library it took around three hours for nearly four thousand tracks.
In Use After library analysis was done, I switched to the new dark theme and set about playing around with the Beatport integration. So, with those minor hiccups out of the way, I started to have a look around the app to check out beaTunes 5’s new features. The first thing I did was switch the view to the new dark theme, I find this looks much sleeker than the default theme.
Chartsįrom the off, you are able to see various Amazon Music charts by clicking the appropriate tab on the left. You hover your cursor over the artwork to see what the track is and then click on it to be sent to the Amazon store. That might be useful to some but I was more interested in the Beatport integration. So, I linked the app to my Beatport account and set about testing how well they complement each other. You are able to click on your favourite tracks and get instant suggestions from the Beatport catalogue within the app is great. To top that off, you can listen to a two-minute preview within beaTunes 5 as well. Like with Amazon, you can browse the Beatport Top 100 charts in the same way. This will be a great timesaver for DJs and a neat way to find tracks that you might have ordinarily passed by.
I was also very impressed with the way you can click on one of your tracks and select “play similar” and beaTunes, like a genre-specific radio station, will play tracks of a similar ilk from your library. This is perfect for parties and saves the effort beforehand of making suitable playlists and those times when you can’t be bothered getting up to change tracks. I tested this feature out with a few different genres and it worked well. This is a cool feature for DJs who prefer not to use keylocking but still want to mix harmonically. beaTunes 5 offers a special view option that shows keys the way they would be, if songs were played with a different tempo.
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