Early Access: beaTunes 6 EA2
This second early access version of beaTunes 6 focuses on two things:
- Faster database access/synchronization
- 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!
Labels: Apple Silicon, Early Access, Inspection, Release, SQLite
posted at 08:24
2 Comments:
6 EA2 fails to load on Imac m1 silicon
I have noticed that when you 'Clear Ignored Issues', then run inspection and ignore any issues, you get errors that 'ignoredIssues.jsondb' is not found, and you need to restart.
Also, possibly by design, if you move and/or rename files, after synchronising, Beatunes now seems to 'know' that the file was already in the library and doesn't prompt to analyse it after sync, and continues to ignore previously ignored issues. I'd become reliant on it treating moved and/or renamed files as new files as part of my deduplication process.
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