beaTunes News

Dealing with Leopard Java Update 2

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Those of you who use beaTunes on Leopard and installed the recent Java Update 2 probably have noticed that a couple of buttons as well as table headers look a little odd (behavior described here). Margins have changed and somehow the table headers seem to be painted twice. The latest beaTunes update should fix all these problems.

Featuring: Savable Matchlists

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Yes, it's time again for a beaTunes Early Access release - this one's number 9.

The biggest new item is the ability to save Matchlists. Yep, that's right - you can now create Matchlists and re-run the same rules, seeds etc. to update the already created playlist. This is particularly useful, when you added a bunch of songs to your library since you created the Matchlist. Or you fine-tuned the used ruleset and want to apply these changes. Or... well, I guess you got the idea. To update a Matchlist, just CTRL/Right-click on the list icon and choose Update Matchlist.

Another major improvement for Matchlists is the selection of multiple seed songs. You don't anymore have to select all seed songs before you create the Matchlist. You can start with some easily selectable songs, open the Matchlist dialog, and then add some more songs, by simply dragging them into the dialog.

I also tried to undo the damage done to the user interface by Apple's Java 1.5.0_16 update, which left most button margins/insets in a rather unattractive state.

Alright, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA9 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA8 users

There will be some updates to the database.

Lights, Camera, Action!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:13:00 +0000

After a couple of small Early Access releases, this is definitely one with more changes. Here's what's new:

I added an audio player to the Get Info dialog, which should make tagging songs a lot easier. Just open the Get Info dialog, hit the play button, tag the song and hit Command-RightArrow (or the next button) to go to the next song. It will start playing automatically. This way you can go through a bunch of songs in a breeze. The same is true for the new BPM tap dialog. I just stuck it into the Get Info as well and it has the same functionality.

Under the hood, beaTunes now supports embedding some of the metadata it computes into the audio files themselves (mp3 and aac only). This is very useful as a backup mechanism, should your beaTunes library become corrupted. Also, if you use your files on multiple computers, having the data embedded will cut down on analysis time - just make sure you enable that import analysis task. If you don't want to embed the data into your files, make sure to turn embedding off. This can be done in the general preferences. BTW: I implemented this using jaudiotagger, an excellent library written by Paul Taylor.

The next big change is mostly eyecandy. Inspired by Filty Rich Clients, I added some animations. So the context drawer and the tree panel are now animated. I think it looks pretty cool, but check for yourself - below is one of those screencapture movies.

(Fairly technical, but very interesting - implementing the animations, I realized what a big difference using createCompatibleImage() makes. It truly makes or breaks an animation.)

Furthermore, I improved iTunes 8 support and added a rule that allows to select songs with a similar rating.

Also fairly technical, but hopefully exciting to fellow developers: Both the Amazon context component and the matching songs table are now implemented fully as plugins. In other words, once I am moving towards a final 2.0 version, I'll write more about how to write custom plugins, so you can stick other cool stuff in that lower right corner.

Alright, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA8 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA7 users

There will be some small updates to the database.

Update (9/18/2008, 11am EDT) : The original OS X version of EA8 had a bug - the Get Info dialog didn't work at all due to a classpath issue. I fixed the issue. Please just download again (same filename), if Get Info simply doesn't show anything. Thanks.

beaTunes MatchLists by Apple

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Thanks, Apple! I'm flattered. Just like a bunch of other people, I couldn't help but notice, that the new Genius iTunes 8 feature works a lot like a beaTunes MatchList.

Elysse.net describes Genius as:

kind of like a mixture between BeaTunes, Musicbrainz and LastFM, but less featured…

I would agree.

Watch out for beaTunes 2, which will give you even more control over automatic playlist creation. Additionally to the already established rules, it will let you specify filters to, say, create a MatchList only from a particular decade, or a particular genre, or both.

Now if only I could get Apple to pay royalties for the MatchList concept... ;-)

beaTunes 2 EA 7

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:00 +0000

I will make this a short one: EA7 offers a number of small, not so much noticeable, but nevertheless important improvements. Examples are next/previous buttons in the BPM tap dialog, a better algorithm for finding iTunes libraries on Windows and a number of UI changes/fixes. For (slightly) more info, check out the NOTES.txt file, which is part of every release.

Alright, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA7 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA6 users

Actually, there is nothing noteworthy... Enjoy!

iP2F got 4 mice!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:37:00 +0000

I haven't blogged here about iP2F for a while, but finally have a reason to do so. As it turns out, iP2F was recently featured in Macworld's Summer of Gems. For the uninitiated: Macworld calls "the very best in low-cost Mac software" a Mac Gem. iP2F received 4 out of 5 mice!

iP2F is a plugin for iPhoto, to easliy upload images to Flickr.

Updated looks

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:10:00 +0000

It's been only a week since the last Early Access release of beaTunes, but as there definitely won't be a release next week, I figured I go ahead and post an update now, so people won't get stranded with an expired EA release.

Today's EA6 release features a number of GUI updates and a new Leopard theme (available only on Leopard) that finally implements the unified toolbar look found in so many modern Mac apps. Thanks to Ken, who pointed out in his blog what should have been pointed out in TN-2196 in more detail. Namely, that apple.awt.brushMetalLook produces the unified toolbar look. Now I'm just waiting for Apple to fix JDialogs, which don't seem to respect the property...

Other changes are mostly bugfixes - including one important one for Windows users: If you choose to run more than one analysis task (e.g. color and bpm), the second one was not working in EA5. This is now fixed.

Alright, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA6 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA5 users

Actually, there is nothing noteworthy... Enjoy!

Pluggable Rules

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:25:00 +0000

Another two weeks have passed, which means it's time for a new Early Access release. Again we've worked on beaTunes' guts trying to get it ready for prime time. The most interesting change from a technical standpoint, is the newly added ability to install match rules as plugins. This means that in the future, eager third party developers can create their own rules, drop them into the plugin folder and take advantage of them in the matching process. This plugin architecture is supposed to be a theme for beaTunes 2 - making it extendible and more powerful.

Other than that, we fixed some little things, improved this and that and hope this will be an overall stable EA release.

Nevertheless, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA5 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA4 users

EA5 changes the database schema introduced in EA4. During the update, beaTunes will display a dialog box. Please be patient.

Sort this!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Even though we made some significant changes, today's new Early Access release 4 is probably not very exciting from a user's point of view. A biggie for us is the complete removal of any QuickTime for Java (QTJ) dependencies. QTJ lets Java programmers easily access one of the most powerful multimedia libraries out there. Unfortunately, as part of the 64bit-Carbon-abandonment, Apple decided to drop all QTJ support in the 64bit-only Java 6 VM and as a result, we'll have to slowly migrate away from it. As of now, beaTunes 2 is still dependent on (native, Carbon-based) QuickTime and will only run in a 32bit JVM. But at least we got rid of the QTJ code as a first step.

In the Windows world, this move away from QTJ will have positive side-effects. For quite a while now, the iTunes updater tended to mess up the QTJ installation. Many users weren't even able to install beaTunes properly without technical support. With QTJ out of the way, we're looking forward to many happy Windows users and fewer support cases.

But enough with the technical whining - there are other neat little improvements contained in this release. First of all, beaTunes now finally supports iTunes-style sorting utilizing sort name, sort artist, etc. We added a corresponding info dialog pane and, probably best of all, some new inspections designed to deal with wrong or butchered sort names.

As you might know, iTunes determines sort names mostly automatically. If, for example, a song title starts with the word "an", it is assumed to be an indefinite English article and therefore dropped from the sort name. Unfortunately, languages like German also have a word "an", which happens to be a preposition, not an indefinite article and should not be dropped from the sort name. beaTunes now has the ability to detect such errors taking advantage of its language field. So for best results, run the language analysis before inspecting sort names.

We also got to improve the typo inspector - it should now do a better job with short names. Another goodie: Searchboxes now have a little popup menu that let's you specify the search mode. E.g., you can now limit a search to the artist field.

So - here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort)
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA4 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA3 users

EA4 changes the database schema first introduced in EA2. During the update, beaTunes will display a dialog box. Please be patient. The update may take a while.

Windows, accelerate!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:13:00 +0000

Today's Early Access release 3 almost didn't happen. First, the Security Update 2008-004/Safari 3.1.2 wrecked our Subversion server, then our hosting service had a power outage (which wouldn't have been all that bad) combined with a backup power failure (which turned out to be pretty bad). So with most of our infrastructure down the drain, things looked pretty bleak as of this morning.

Fortunately, since then, thing's have improved. Our Subversion server is back online (even our continuous integration system Continuum is running) and since you can read this blog entry, our hosting provider managed to get things going again.

But let's talk about more pleasant things. EA3 is out and it should be a blast for Windows users. Yep, that's right, we finally got to do something Big for You! The major improvement in EA3 is analysis speed. We changed our Windows decoding/decompression code to mirror what we have done a while ago on OS X using CoreAudio. This should lead to much quicker analysis (BPM and color) and an overall much more responsive system during analysis. And we'd love to get feedback about this! Let us know, whether the speedup is as great as we think it is... Also, let us know, if any files bomb, i.e. lead to crashes. Changing the decoder is always a tricky thing and in the past we have run into a number of issues with people's audio files. There is definitely some obscure stuff out there...

The other thing we got to improve is the typo inspector. Simply put: Expect fewer false positives.

So - here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA3 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Note for EA2 users

EA3 does not change the database schema introduced in EA2. So if you had EA2 running successfully, EA3 will not try to migrate any data. If you never got EA2 to work, because of database issues, you are probably best of simply renaming or deleting the database folder (see EA2 post for exact names) and the file beaTunes2 Music Library.xml before running EA3. This will recreate the database and import old color/BPM etc. data.

beaTunes 2.0 Early Access 2

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:21:00 +0000

Thanks to all the brave people who downloaded EA1 and took it for a ride. Your feedback was very valuable for EA2, which is available as of today.

Changes include a workaround for a memory leak in Java 6 on Windows, lowered memory consumption while importing beaTunes 1 data, more responsive UI for big libraries, a new Duplicates Inspector, a new play/skip-ratio column etc. We have not changed the BPM algorithm or, for that matter, anything that has to do with analysis. Again, we are looking for feedback - please let us know what's great and what just doesn't work.

And here's the mandatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

To make this perfectly clear: EA2 isn't even a beta version.

And here are the download links:

Important Note for EA1 users

EA2 contains code that migrates the EA1 database to the new EA2 format. beaTunes will start iTunes (if it is not started already), then convert your database. Depending on the size of your database, this may take a long time, we've seen up to 30min, but it may be longer. You will not get any visual feedback until the conversion is completed, so please be patient, get a coffee and call a friend you haven't talked to in a while.

The conversion is a one-time process. If for some reason you have worked a lot with EA1 and need to be sure that the data is imported correctly, we recommend that you back up your database files before starting EA2. To do so, copy ~/Library/Application Support/beaTunes/Database or c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.beaTunes\database to a safe location.

One of the reasons why the conversion takes so long, is the fact that we changed the datatype of the primary keys in the biggest tables to achieve better overall performance.

Got balls and a huge library? Test our Early Access version!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:39:00 +0000

In the past couple of months we have made an effort to make some progress with beaTunes 2. One of the most important goals is better scalability, i.e. the ability to efficiently manage larger libraries while consuming fewer system resources. As a consequence, we have rewritten most of beaTunes' guts. Today, we'd like to ask the brave among you to check out what we've achieved so far.

Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

Absolutely no warranty for whatever
Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions
This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release
You cannot buy this version

To make this perfectly clear: EA1 isn't even a beta version.

Of course, the purpose of this release is to obtain feedback from real users. Please don't hesitate to contact us and let us know what does or does not work, is taking too long or does not fulfill your expectations in any other way.

And here are the download links:

Enjoy!

beaTunes 1.2.11 is released

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Alright, beaTunes isn't quite Firefox 3, but it too has a new release out. As the version number 1.2.11 indicates, this is mostly a maintenance release - no new features are introduced. We're saving those for beaTunes 2...

This is not to say that nothing has changed. We finally taught our iTunes Music Library.xml parser to deal with the malformed XML files exported by iTunes. Yes, you read that right: iTunes exports malformed XML. More specifically, the iTunes XML exporter does not safeguard against illegal UTF-8 or illegal XML characters. RFC-3629 clearly prohibits encoding character numbers between U+D800 and U+DFFF, which are reserved for use with the UTF-16 encoding form (as surrogate pairs) and do not directly represent characters. Unfortunately, users have told us again and again that their iTunes Music Library.xml contains such characters. The same is true for the non-characters U+FFFF and U+FFFE. They are contained in some libraries, but are clearly illegal in XML.

We assume that the bad characters stem from bad id3 tags - iTunes probably copies them without paying any attention to their legality. In any case, instead of choking, beaTunes will now silently ignore them.

UnsatisfiedLinkError: beaTunes, Leopard and Java 6

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:15:00 +0000

A little while ago, Apple finally released Java 6 for Leopard. Unfortunately, the 64bit Java 6 does not support QuickTime for Java anymore. Why? QuickTime for Java depends on Carbon, for which Apple is dropping support in 64bit environments.

What does this mean for beaTunes? In the long term we will move away from the QuickTime for Java API on OS X. We already utilize CoreAudio in parts of the application, which will not be affected by Apple's discontinued support for Carbon based APIs. We will replace the remaining code that is still using QuickTime.

Are users affected by this right now? Yes, unfortunately they are. As beaTunes works quite nicely with Java 6 on Windows, the current OS X version of beaTunes (1.2.9) will also start with Java 6, if it is installed. And this will fail due to the reasons mentioned above with an UnsatisfiedLinkError. To fix this, one needs to edit the file Contents/Info.plist in the beaTunes application bundle and replace the existing JVMVersion string with the value 1.5* (instead of 1.5+)

We will release an update next week, which contains this fix.

SynchStep is public!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:00 +0000

A little while ago, we pointed you to SynchStep, which back then was still in private beta. As of yesterday, SynchStep is public.

From the press release:

"SynchStep is a fun and easy experimental way to plays songs from your music library that match your pace. That means when you're out struttin your stuff down "My Favorite Street", every step you take lands in-time with a drum hit, a bass slap, a piano chord. It's kind of like being in your own music video, where your your music becomes the soundtrack to your life. Ya, it's just like a your own music video, except you don't have to pay 3 hundo to some smug director and let his smarmy crew use your bathroom."

To support this special project, tagtraum industries has created a nifty little plugin for beaTunes, which automatically writes the BPM information into the comment field, so that it can be easily read by the SynchStep application on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can get a special version of beaTunes from the SynchStep site that has the plugin already installed.

For those of you interested in how to write a plugin for beaTunes, check out the source code and email us any question you might have.

Let the music follow You

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:24:00 +0000

As you all know, beaTunes has the ability to measure the tempo of your music. Many runners use it to create playlists with a certain BPM and then exercise to that tempo. But what if you did it the other way around? What if you were already walking or running and wanted to listen to music that matches your speed? Well, there is a new software for iPhone and iPod Touch called SynchStep that does just that.

Developer Greg Elliott has been tinkering with the concept of a personal soundtrack for a while. Early incarnations of the idea were custom built devices - the new iPhone approach does not need any additional hardware. It's all about the user:

"This device is not concerned with an optimal workout or improving the health of america. It is intended to de-optimize us, and do away with the notion of an 'optimal' walk or run. There is no program to follow, or pre-determined track; you begin walking and the computer follows you, adapting to you and your walking style without protest. It supports meandering, wasting time, and loitering."

The software is currently in private beta.

New York Times mentions beaTunes for BPM detection

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:00 +0000

In its Personal Tech Q&A column, the New York Times recently pointed to beaTunes as a tool for detecting the BPM of your iTunes songs.

Thanks, NYT! We appreciate it!

Prevention Magazine features beaTunes

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:39:00 +0000

In its March 2008 issue, Prevention Magazine features a story titled Workout Songs for Fitness Walking. It's all about making a good walk more fun - and what better way is there than to listen to your favorite upbeat tunes. beaTunes is recommended as a tool for measuring the tempo (BPM) of your music, in order to generate a better mix. About.com has a similar web page. While About.com recommends BPM of 115-120 for walking, Prevention lists songs with BPM from 115-160.

Backing up beaTunes data

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Every now and then, users of beaTunes ask us, how they can back up their data. The answer to this is twofold. If you just want to protect your beaTunes data, assuming that the iTunes library stays intact, it is enough to back up the beaTunes data directory. On OS X it is located at ~/Library/Application Support/beaTunes, on Windows it's at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.beaTunes. Unfortunately this does not work, when your iTunes music library was corrupted. Here's why: beaTunes connects additional information to iTunes using iTunes generated persistent ids. Should you have to rebuild your iTunes music collection, these persistent ids will be re-generated, thus the connection with your beaTunes data is lost.

So how to back up beaTunes data then? Currently the best approach is to look up as many PUIDs for your songs as possible. This can be achieved with the MusicIP analysis.

You are presented with the analysis option above, everytime you analyze a song. Just check the options indicated above and beaTunes will look up music fingerprints (aka PUID) for the songs you want to analyze. Once you have the PUIDs for all your songs, export the beaTunes metadata. Just select your library and click on the File -> Export menu item

Then save the metadata file somewhere safe. Should you need to import them, use the File -> Import menu item. BTW, this is also a handy way to exchange metadata with friends.

The right music makes you faster!

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:34:00 +0000

The right music can motivate you to perform significantly better in your daily workout routine and even in competition. That's the gist of a number of recent articles in The New York Times, the British Telegraph and other reputable publications. They all quote the work of Dr. Costas Karageorghis, reader in Sports Psychology at Brunel University. According to his studies, six factors contribute most to the motivational properties of music:

rhythm
genre
melody (tune)
tempo (BPM)
sound of the instruments
beat

Together, these six factors can be measured with the Brunel Music Rating Inventory (BMRI-2).

According to the NYT article, Dr. Karageorghis found that one of the most important elements is a song’s tempo, which should be between 120 and 140 beats-per-minute, or BPM.

Since beaTunes lets iTunes users measure the BPM of their songs, it is an ideal tool to help people improve their workout playlists. Furthermore, with its configurable Matchlist feature it actively supports users in considering more than just one factor when building playlist.

Amazon MP3 starts going global this year

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:15:00 +0000

According to an official press release, Amazon MP3 will begin to offer its service globally this year. The company claims to be responding to thousands of emails from international customers, asking when the DRM-free MP3 store will open in their country.

While the press release states, that Amazon will start the international rollout this year, it does not give dates for individual countries, nor does it list the countries in which a store will actually open.

So even though the press release is somewhat preemptive - in the sense that it really only promises that at least one non-US store will open this year - this is very promising news for Amazon's international customers.

Since beaTunes can only analyze DRM-free music, this is also great news for beaTunes users.

Happy New Year! (with beaTunes 1.2.7)

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:33:00 +0000

We hope you all made it safely into the new year and wish you all the best for 2008. Fresh from the bits'n'bytes press we just uploaded a new release of beaTunes to our servers. It addresses some minor usability issues, problems with empty blog labels/terms and problems with private blogger.com blogs. It also finally provides Windows folks - who don't have Windows Scripting Host (WSH) installed - with a better error message.

Enjoy!

iP2F 1.0.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:50:00 +0000

This may not be all that interesting to beaTunes users, but tagtraum industries, the maker of beaTunes, has just released iP2F 1.0.1, a new Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto.

If you're using both Flickr and iPhoto, you should definitely try it out. It'll make your life a lot easier.

beaTunes 1.2.6 is out

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:44:00 +0000

Right when we thought, that we had fixed all the issues caused by Leopard, it turns out that Leopard's version of CoreAudio tends to crash on files it decoded just fine in its Tiger incarnation. So this is why we just released beaTunes 1.2.6. It works around all the known CoreAudio issues and features an improved Windows uninstaller. We also did some additional cosmetic fixes specifically for Leopard.

Enjoy!

OS X 10.4.11 solves iTunes Plus-CoreAudio problems

noreply@blogger.com (beaTunes) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:36:00 +0000

It looks like the recent OS X 10.4.11 update solved a couple of issues with opening iTunes Plus files with CoreAudio. Previously, CoreAudio APIs were often not able to even open an iTunes Plus file even though no DRM was employed. For beaTunes users this was pretty annoying, since they had to fall back to a not as fast QuickTime implementation of the same code, that had to be manually enabled.