tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/45375-beatunes-and-itunes-library-syncbeaTunes: Discussion 2016-09-27T06:34:08Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/408439732016-09-27T06:34:06Z2016-09-27T06:34:06ZBeatunes and Itunes library sync.<div><p>Hey Patrick,</p>
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<p>Why the newer versions of beatunes don´t sync
automatically with the itunes library?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You can switch that behavior on and off in the beaTunes general
preferences: <em>Synchronize on Window activation</em>. For large
libraries and people who switch back and forth between applications
it's advantageous to keep this turned off to avoid beaTunes being
to busy with synchronizing (and not doing much else).</p>
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<p>Why they don´t use the playback option inside the itunes
software (instead, beatunes use it´s own player - so we have
two different sources of playback at the same time).</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You can ask beaTunes to use iTunes for playback: Just open the
<code>Controls</code> menu and check <code>iTunes Playback</code>.
However, admittedly some features of beaTunes 4 really don't work
well with that option turned on, as it requires lots of
communication between the two apps. The ability to remote control
iTunes like this will therefore be removed in beaTunes 5.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik