tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/suggestions/2482-feature-request-ignore-icloud-andor-apple-music-tracks-in-inspect-and-analyzebeaTunes: Discussion 2017-06-17T18:31:40Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-05-19T16:05:27Z2017-05-19T16:05:27ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>Hey Evans,</p>
<p>that's a good suggestion. beaTunes 5 will include an option to exclude what iTunes calls a <em>remote</em> or <em>shared</em> track from inspection and analysis (actually, the <em>analyze all songs</em> action).</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-05-30T08:59:20Z2017-05-30T08:59:20ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>Hey Evans,</p>
<p>just to let you know: The first beta version for beaTunes 5 is public. See <a href="http://blog.beatunes.com/2017/05/beatunes-5-ea1-feedback-welcome.html">http://blog.beatunes.com/2017/05/beatunes-5-ea1-feedback-welcome.html</a> for details.</p>
<p>In the preferences, it contains a switch that lets you exclude <em>Remote</em> songs.</p>
<p>Does this do what you want?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-05-31T20:13:30Z2017-05-31T20:13:30ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>Thanks, Hendrik. I've been trying it out since yesterday, and I think that definitely does what I want. Thanks!</p></div>evansthompsontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-01T06:49:05Z2017-06-01T06:49:05ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>Excellent.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback!</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-07T15:32:05Z2017-06-07T15:32:05ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>OK. Perhaps I'm confused on the behavior here. I've checked both Protected and Remote Songs to exclude in Analysis. I go to the library, I select tracks without paying attention to their protected status or location. I start the analysis on them.</p>
<p>My expectation was that any tracks that were selected to be excluded wouldn't make their way to the task list. What I'm seeing, though, is them being processed along with other tracks and throwing errors/warnings in the Messages area.</p></div>evansthompsontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-07T15:36:25Z2017-06-07T15:36:25ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>The exclusion checkboxes only apply to the "Analyze All" and "Analyze New" actions.<br>
Whenever you manually select songs, beaTunes assumes you know what you are doing.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-07T17:44:53Z2017-06-07T17:44:53ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>Ah. In that case, it's much less useful.</p>
<p>Theoretically, Analyze All would be used once. (Yes, I can see times when one might want to analyze all again after selecting different options.)</p>
<p>Analyze New is a little more useful. I just tried it, and it works as expected.</p>
<p>I have a large library of about 93000 items. Analyze All would literally take days, but it's more likely to overwhelm beaTunes.</p>
<p>I'd expect the behavior of Analysis to match that of Inspection, where I can toggle options on and off and then inspect, although I just realized that Inspect would always be the entire library.</p>
<p>With the "new" color option, etc, I'm finding a need to re-analyze songs to populate that and other new options. I've created smart playlists in iTunes to exclude iCloud tracks, there isn't a good option for filtering items that don't have a color attribute or danceability.</p>
<p>I get the beaTunes assumes I know what I'm doing when I select a bunch of tracks, but it's because I know what I'm doing (or think I do) that I was looking forward to the new exclusion option.</p></div>evansthompsontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-11T12:19:40Z2017-06-11T12:19:40ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><blockquote>
<p>there isn't a good option for filtering items that don't have a color attribute or danceability.</p>
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<p>beaTunes is actually smart enough to not compute color or danceability again, if it's already computed (unless you check the <em>replace</em> box).</p>
<p>So for those two tasks, i.e. color and danceability, just use <code>Analyze All</code> from <code>Tools</code>, make sure to have no other task on, turn <em>use online resources</em> for all selected tasks <em>off</em>.</p>
<p>With just those two tasks, and the described settings, beaTunes understands that no online resources are involved, so it won't send data to the server first. When it encounters a song that already has color and danceability, it will completely skip it. This approach is probably more efficient that manually selecting stuff and being afraid of double-work.</p>
<p>A little note about <em>danceability</em>: With online resources enabled, this will try to use AcousticBrainz data. As fallback the algorithm by <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Perfecto_Herrera/publication/238677665_Detrended_Fluctuation_Analysis_of_Music_Signals_Danceability_Estimation_and_further_Semantic_Characterization/links/0046352d3b8a4599cf000000.pdf">Streich and Herrera</a> is used. In either case, <strong>your mileage may vary</strong>, which is why I don't actively promote this feature.</p>
<p>BTW: If you have analyzed your files with <em>Mixed In Key</em> and it has written its energy/danceability level to the file, that will be used for danceability in beaTunes as well.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-13T16:50:36Z2017-06-13T16:53:01ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>That makes sense, and I hadn't thought of it.</p>
<p>I figured beaTunes was smart enough to skip tracks that had been analyzed unless Replace was selected, but I seem to have always had at least one criteria's use online resources selected, so that bogged down everything if there was an offline option available.</p>
<p>It looks like I've gotten through analyzing my library with v5, so now I can really enjoy the new features. :)</p>
<p>I do still hold out hope for a change in analyze in a future version, though. From experience with v4 and the upgrade to v5, I learned that even though I'd selected embed non-iTunes fields, not every file had fields embedded. For a rebuilt library, that meant a lot of re-analyzing.</p></div>evansthompsontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-14T08:00:59Z2017-06-14T08:00:59ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><blockquote>
<p>It looks like I've gotten through analyzing my library with v5, so now I can really enjoy the new features. :)</p>
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<p>Yay!</p>
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<p>I do still hold out hope for a change in analyze in a future version, though. From experience with v4 and the upgrade to v5, I learned that even though I'd selected embed non-iTunes fields, not every file had fields embedded. For a rebuilt library, that meant a lot of re-analyzing.</p>
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<p>Were you able to see some kind of pattern? E.g. certain file types that didn't have data embedded?</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-16T00:09:23Z2017-06-16T00:09:23ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><p>I think so. Some of them could have been tracks I replaced using iTunes Match after they'd been analyzed. I know there's an option in v5 now to force overwriting fields even if they seem unchanged now. So those would all be M4A files.</p>
<p>Or there could have been tracks I analyzed way back when before I enabled embed non-iTunes data (although that should be a much smaller number). Those would have been mostly MP3 with some M4A files. I don't know what versions of iD3 the MP3 files had.</p>
<p>Or...it could have been files modified outside of beaTunes or iTunes and for some reason didn't keep the data embedded.</p></div>evansthompsontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425876272017-06-17T18:31:38Z2017-06-17T18:31:38ZFeature request: ignore iCloud and/or Apple Music tracks in Inspect and Analyze<div><blockquote>
<p>Some of them could have been tracks I replaced using iTunes Match after they'd been analyzed.</p>
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<p>That basically means you threw away the embedded fields. I don't see how force overwriting would have helped.</p></div>hendrik