beaTunes News

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Moving to Europe!

For most of you who have subscribed to this blog, this will probably sound like old news by now:

beaTunes is moving on!

On November 1st, 2025, beaTunes and all associated data and assets will be transferred from tagtraum industries incorporated to jalulo UG, a limited liability company registered in Cologne, Germany.

Both tagtraum industries incorporated and jalulo UG are owned by me, Hendrik Schreiber, so in most ways, nothing will really change for you. I’ll continue to develop, maintain, and support beaTunes — just as before.

That said, this transfer does involve personal data, and in accordance with our privacy policy, I want to be fully transparent about it. If you’d prefer to delete your personal information before the transfer, you can easily do so via this link.

Please note that your purchases and personal data are not connected to your account in the help forum, and deleting your beaTunes account using the link above does not affect your help forum account (if you have created one).

So, why the move? The reason is actually quite simple: I’ve been living in Germany since 2009, and running a company based in another country has become increasingly cumbersome over time. It just made sense for the business to be located where I live — and for taxes to be paid here as well.

You may wonder why I waited 16 years to make this move. Honestly, I hesitated because I expected a bit of EU bureaucracy — and Germany didn’t disappoint! For example, the questionnaire for obtaining a tax ID (which you need to issue invoices) is about ten pages long, and in my case, the process took three months. Let’s just say it was a good exercise in patience.

In short: new legal home, same developer, same product.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

beaTunes on macOS 15 Sequoia - don't update just yet!

Apple just release its latest macOS update named Sequoia. If you're using beaTunes v5.2.34 or earlier, I recommend to wait with the update as it apparently breaks beaTunes' analysis feature.
If you have already updated, I recommend the following workaround:

  • Go to /Applications/beaTunes5 in Finder
  • Right click on beaTunes5 and choose Show package contents from the context menu
  • Navigate to Contents/Java
  • Delete or rename the file casampledsp-complete-0.9.23.jar to casampledsp-complete-0.9.23.jar_
  • Start beaTunes
Background: Apparently the integration with CoreAudio broke with Sequoia. Deleting/renaming that file will force beaTunes to fall back to FFmpeg for decoding audio.

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Update: beaTunes 5.2.34

This maintenance update fixes a couple of issues having to do with lyrics, import of Bandcamp tags, and the switch from loved to favorited by the Apple Music.app. It also updates the internal Discogs database.

As always, you can download the new version from the download section of the website.

Changes in 5.2.34

  • Fixed some lyrics related issues.
  • Fixed retrieval of Bandcamp tags.
  • Updated japlscript and obstmusic to fix favorited/loved issue.
  • Updated built-in Discogs database.

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Update: beaTunes 5.2.33

This minor update fixes a couple of issues having to do with responsiveness, house keeping, and a downright bug (time signature didn't show up in the main table view).

As always, you can download the new version from the download section of the website.

Changes in 5.2.33

  • Fixed sub-par responsiveness in inspection panes.
  • Fixed time signature table renderer.
  • Fixed deletion of orphaned playlists.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Update: beaTunes 5.2.32

This minor update fixes a startup issue on Windows (reported for Windows 11) that led to a shutdown right after the splash screen. Furthermore, automatic synchronization during shutdown is now prevented.

As always, you can download the new version from the download section of the website.

Changes in 5.2.32

  • Fixed window-activation-triggered sync during shutdown.
  • Fixed startup issue on Windows 11 (missing accessibility dependency).

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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Update: beaTunes 5.2.31

This maintenance update improves the search experience in larger collections, fixes a couple of minor issues and updates some included components.

As always, you can download the new version from the download section of the website.

Changes in 5.2.31

  • Fixed a lyrics issue (missing jlink dependency).
  • Fixed encoding of relative paths in WPL playlist exporter.
  • Fixed ConcurrentModificationException during initial synchronization.
  • Increased search trigger delay for single characters.
  • Updated to Java 11.0.17+7.
  • Updated built-in Discogs database.

And, because an indfividual post was skipped, changes in 5.2.30

  • Fixed synchronization abortion due to infinite volume normalization change.
  • Updated to Java 11.0.16.1+1.
  • Updated japlscript.
  • Updated built-in Discogs database.

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Update: beaTunes 5.2.29

Getting ready for Ventura! This maintenance update introduces a couple of fixes for the upcoming macOS 13 (Ventura) along with some other performance-related issues.

As always, you can download the new version from the download section of the website.

Changes in 5.2.29

  • Support deletion of currently playing song.
  • Fixed responsiveness issue when initiating synchronization manually.
  • Fixed taking last play/skip date into account when checking synchronization need.
  • Fixed synchronization with Music.app taking too long despite only minor changes.
  • Fixed NaN values in volume normalization.
  • Fixed Music.app/iTunes selection for macOS 13 (Ventura).
  • Implemented rate limiting for AcousticBrainz.

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