Tangerine beta

Every so often a program pops up that makes you say, “Man, why didn’t someone think of that before?” Tangerine is just such a program. I foudn out about Tangerine whilst surfing one of my favorite webistes - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). What it does is scans and analyzes your iTunes library. But wait! There’s more! It allows you to create iTunes play lists based on beat intensity and/or beats per minute.

As a teacher I would love to use this in class. I’d have a high, energetic, bpm playlist on days that my students are working on projects and a low, calming, bpm playlist for exams. Unfortunately I can’t get the app to work on my Dual G5 (haven’t tried it on my MacBook yet). When I try to save a playlist back to iTunes I get an error saying the script has timed out but the window saying it’s saving to iTunes stays forever. Command-. won’t shut it down nor will Command-w. Gotta force quit. But, I’m not going to give up on it just yet. This is such a cool idea that I feel compelled to play.

I’ll let you know how it goes.