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Exporting Musical Key and BPM from beaTunes to iTunes

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Cliff

Feb 13, 2017 @ 10:48 AM

I am running iTunes 12.5.5.5 and beaTunes 4.6.11 and am not able to export the Key and BPM to my songs in iTunes when I analyze the songs in beaTunes. I have been able to do this in the past and the Add Ins are properly installed in beaTunes. Can you please help me trouble shoot what I should do to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance

* beaTunes: 4.6.11
* JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
* Version: 25.112-b16
* Vendor: Oracle Corporation
* OS: Mac OS X 10.12.3, x86_64
* Library: iTunes
* Memory: 92m - 2G
* Registered as: Clifford Wicks

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on Feb 13, 2017 @ 10:55 AM

   

   Hey Cliff,

   first of all, please send your logs.

   Then, please clarify how you want to export keys to iTunes, i.e. whether you simply have them written to the comment field or whether you use some plugin (which?).

   Thanks,

   -hendrik

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2. 2 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 10:59 AM

   

   Hey Hendrick

   Thanks for the prompt response. I will forward the log(s). Below is a screen shot of my plugins. I and running on a MAC and have been able to write the Key to the Comments field and the BPM to the BPM field in iTunes. I do have a brand new Mac Book Pro Touch which is running on Sierra 10.12.3. Not sure if that really matters or not

   Logs to follow

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3. 3 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:00 AM

   

   Hey Hendrik

   My Logs have been uploaded. Please let me know if you did not receive them.

   Thanks

   Cliff

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by hendrik on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:10 AM

   

   Hey,

   got the logs. On first glance there does not seem to be anything wrong. Is this failing for all songs all the time?

   It looks like you are running many analysis tasks at the same time.
   Can you reproduce the issue, when running just the key and bpm tasks?

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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5. 5 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:17 AM

   

   Hey

   I had 3,900 songs I ran analysis on but since then I ran the analysis on just one of the songs with the same result of not exporting Key and BPM. Until yesterday I have been exporting this information flawlessly. Can you tell me how to run just the key and bam task?

   I have run synchronize and it runs without any issues. I don’t get any comments after synch hs run. Not sure if this matters

   Thanks

   Cliff

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6. 6 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:35 AM

   

   Hey Hendrik

   Below is a screen shot of where my iTunes Library is. I am not sure if beatUnes is finding it.

   > On Feb 13, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Cliff Wicks <[email blocked]> wrote:
   >
   > Hey
   >
   >
   > I had 3,900 songs I ran analysis on but since then I ran the analysis on just one of the songs with the same result of not exporting Key and BPM. Until yesterday I have been exporting this information flawlessly. Can you tell me how to run just the key and bam task?
   >
   > I have run synchronize and it runs without any issues. I don’t get any comments after synch hs run. Not sure if this matters
   >
   > Thanks
   >
   > Cliff
   >> On Feb 13, 2017, at 6:10 AM, hendrik <[email blocked] <mailto:[email blocked]>> wrote:
   >>

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by hendrik on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:42 AM

   

   Can you tell me how to run just the key and bam task?

   Whenever you start an analysis, beaTunes displays an analysis options dialog. There you can turn tasks on and off. Simply turn everything but the BPM and key task off.

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8. 8 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:44 AM

   

   Thanks

   Will do

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9. Support Staff 9 Posted by hendrik on Feb 13, 2017 @ 11:52 AM

   

   The last songs that was analyzed according to the logs is:

   '(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep At All'
   album='The Fifth Dimension: Master Hits'
   artist='The 5th Dimension'
   

   The BPM was determined to be 105 and according to the log this was set via AppleScript (was it really?—the log does not show me results from iTunes). The key was set to A flat major (9d).

   I think beaTunes is doing its job.

   However, digging a little deeper, I'm under the impression that some of the songs are shared tracks. Meaning they are not locally stored, but only available in iCloud/iTunes Match or something similar. In these cases it becomes a little unpredictable what iTunes does when told to store metadata.

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10. 10 Posted by cpwicks10934 on Feb 13, 2017 @ 12:06 PM

    

    Thanks Hendrik

    I think they may be stored in iTunes Match and this probably explains why they are not being populated with the BPM and Key. Yjanks for your help

    Mystery solved

    Cliff

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