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Why I will not buy or recommend beatunes

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octane.power

May 12, 2014 @ 01:04 PM

1) Freezes when I quit it. I have to kill it using the OS
2) Synch doesn't work. I have to quit and restart beatunes in order to see changes to iTunes playlist
3) I doesn't import m3u
4) I can't drag tracks or playlist into beatunes from Traktor
5) As I was writing this message, your product froze on startup. It just kept spinning the beachball on "Thank you for trying beaTunes" dialog.
6) It occupies 5!!!!! times more memory than iTunes which is an overbloated piece of crap that does all kinds of stuff it has no business having it as features. What does that say about your product?

What you want like $40 for some beta grade software? Yea right. I though making software crappier that iTunes is impossible. Well beaTunes showed me!

BTW, I'm using 2.5 GHz Core i5, 4Gb of memory, Osx 10.9

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on May 12, 2014 @ 03:54 PM

   

   Hi,

   most of the issues you mentioned can probably be addressed by granting beaTunes more memory. How that is done, is described on http://www.beatunes.com/beatunes-outofmemoryerror.html Naturally, that doesn't solve problem 6). But I figured I mention it anyway.

   If, due to memory problems your internal beaTunes database is already broken, this can be fixed with http://help.beatunes.com/kb/troubleshooting/database-corruption-rec...

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

   BTW: iTunes is produced by Apple with its billions of $$, beaTunes is produced by a single person.

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2. 2 Posted by neil on May 13, 2014 @ 04:04 PM

   

   I am new to BeaTunes, but thought I would give my 5cent response to octane.power.

   1. I am using it on a Windows 7 machine and on a osX 10.8.5 machine. I have no such crashing issues, and it shuts down just fine. I'm wondering if you have some other issue with your computer.
      
   2. haven't seen such issues
      
   3. I had to increase my JMV max heap size so it would not run out of memory, but no issues after doing that.
      

   For software fairly specialized, the price is not unreasonable. Also, your given a free trial of the software as well.

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