- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (100-song cleanup/50 art pieces trial); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7
- Date added: November 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 202,588
- Downloads last week: 615
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 81 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
TuneUp is an iTunes plug-in for Windows users which helps you analyze, clean up, and correct track tagging SNAFUs in a fraction of the time it would take to do them manually. The interface shows up to the right of your iTunes music library with features for cleaning tags, finding album artwork, getting more artist info, and genre-related recommendations from Amazon. You can also search local concert listings on StubHub for bands in your library.
The Clean tool takes an audio fingerprint of a mislabeled song, matches it against Gracenote's Global Media Database of more than 90 million songs, and returns most likely matches which you can save to your library. It even recognizes songs from the same album so you can get both music and cover art in one pass. In our testing, it worked almost flawlessly as long as we only chose groups of 50 songs at a time, but simply selecting the entire library and trying to clean it all brought the program to a crawl. The Cover Art tool quickly offered covers for every artist it recognized, and the Now Playing section offered up music videos for the artist playing, all accessible with a click of a button.
TuneUp Companion isn't perfect, but it's a good start. As a beta release, there are still bugs to be ironed out, and a Mac client is due soon. The trial version offers 500 "cleans" and 50 cover art "finds"--not nearly enough for most libraries. An unlimited version of TuneUp Companion costs $19.95 for a one-time charge or you can get an annual subscription for $11.95.
Publisher's description
From Tuneup Media :Your music collection is a mess. TuneUp fixes it. Automatically. Fixes your mislabeled track information. No more "Track 01s". No more "Unknown Artists". Finds your missing cover art. No more gray music notes. Local concert alerts based on your favorite artists in iTunes. Automatic YouTube videos, Wikipedia bios, eBay merch.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.5.11 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 81 votes
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.11
"Information at your fingertips"
Pros: This is a good, solid third party application for ITunes, which quite frankly brings features that should have been built in with the iTunes application to begin with.
Cons: Can become a minor annoyance in that it shrinks your iTunes window.
Summary: The features that this software brings is definitely worth having in your arsenal if you are a iTunes aficionado. Not having all my album covers from albums I "owned" from cd's outside of iTunes was disappointing - was nice to have an app. that wo... read more >>
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.11
"OK, but not worth the money for big music collections"
Pros: Nice interface
Good support forumsCons: - Lots of incorrect data, esp. album covers
- Can't fix "wrong" album covers
- Sometimes takes 2-3x to fix a track
- Often makes elementary mistakes (e.g. dividing an album in two and giving it two different names)
- Can only fix 500 songs at a timeSummary: I have a large music collection of 13K+ songs. Recently I had a hard drive crash, had to restore all my music off my iPod, and was left with a muddled music collection. I have been tearing my hair out fixing all the metadata by hand so decided to bu... read more >>
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.11
"NOT ALL ITS CRACKED UP TO BE"
Pros: havent found one YET!
Cons: mislabeled my music, album art was so not even close on much of my music. customer support is non existant.
Summary: I have about 4000 songs some purchased through itunes and some downloaded. I cleaned up my entire library and the majority was mislabeled with the wrong artist and song names. The album art work was totally off. I have spanish music and TUNEUP label... read more >>
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.11
Pros: It is very handy to have this facility, many thanks.
Cons: All okay thanks
Summary: No problems, great product.
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.11
"One of the Best Softwares that i ever used !! Great"
Pros: Got rid of all the unknown songs and their Album Pics..
Cons: I didn't find any yet!!
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