- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (100 song clean-ups / 50 pieces of album art); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows XP
- Date added: March 10, 2009
- Total Downloads: 194,584
- Downloads last week: 519
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 74 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. Automagically. 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.
Version 1.1.9 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.1.9 has many bug fixes and performance enhancements. No new features
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.1.9
"Good idea, not wise with Vista"
Pros: Easy way to sort lots of music and album art
Cons: Not always accurate, breaks up albums. I have had to recover windows numerous times and it is not worth it in the end
Summary: I have had to recover windows numerous times and it is not worth it in the end.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.1.9
Pros: The idea of it & a user-friendly interface
Cons: Totally unstable with Vista, constantly gets "stuck" &/or crashes. Selects wrong art, won't allow user to correct. Fractures compilation CDs into artist tracks. I buy compilations because I like to keep them compiled, esp for working out.
Summary: Before Tune Up Media introduces a Mac version, they should clean up their Windows software, make it stable/compatible with Vista and allow greater user control over choices.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.1.9
"Excellent product does exactly what it says on the tin!"
Pros: Clean Itunes library with cover art and pictures
Cons: The product cannot find all songs or cannot associate artwork with them all, it also takes a long time to locate the ID3 Tags and download the artwork and change the files over, so put a few nights down if you plan on doing this...
Summary: Great product if your only looking for near perfection in your itunes library!
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