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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Early Access: beaTunes 6 EA2

This second early access version of beaTunes 6 focuses on two things:

  1. Faster database access/synchronization
  2. Faster inpection

Both improvements are essentially the result of optimized database queries and parallelization. Especially inspection should be an order of magnitude faster. Note that it may not appear like that at first, as beaTunes will now always start with the relatively slow inspectors first. Synchronization, especially for folder-based libraries on network volumes - which naturally is fairly slow, should be significantly faster.

This Early Access release focuses on macOS. A windows version is not available, but there will be windows versions in the future.

When you start beaTunes 6, and have used beaTunes 5 before, beaTunes will create a backup of your existing database folder and then go on to convert your databases to the new SQLite format. This process cannot be reversed, i.e. you will not be able to migrate data back to beaTunes 5. You can however, delete the new database folder and rename the copy to its former name. In any case, you might want to create a backup before starting beaTunes 6.

Alright, here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means:

  • Absolutely no warranty for whatever
  • Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear
  • It may not be possible to migrate data to future or previous versions (even though I make a reasonable effort)
  • You will not be able to migrate data created by this version back to beaTunes 5
  • This version will cease to function 4 week after its release. A new version or a final product will be made available when this version becomes dysfunctional.
  • You cannot buy this version

Here is the download link: beaTunes-6-0-0-EA2-arm64.dmg

Changes in 6.0.0 EA2

  • Migrated to UNUserNotificationCenter.
  • Improved synchronisation performance.
  • Improved database schema.
  • Improved inspection performance.
  • Improved analysis performance (1st round).
  • Removed unused low-level dsp features.

Feedback is very welcome!

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