- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (100 song clean-ups / 50 pieces of album art); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: July 22, 2009
- Total Downloads: 194,656
- Downloads last week: 519
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 75 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 1.5.7 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.5.7 has many bug fixes and performance enhancements: Better Tag to Original Album, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
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User reviews of TuneUp Companion 1.5.7
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 75 votes
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.7
"Expensive, buggy and there are free alternatives."
Pros: Cleans music library as described and adds art work.
Cons: Expensive. There are free alternatives. Buggy: clashes with firewall software.
Summary: I was happy to find this software first. But it had problems with my firewall software and did not work except for a few times. I found out that the Winamp software also cleans music, works better than TuneUp and is free. In Winamp, go to media libr... read more >>
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.7
Pros: when it works, it works somewhat good
Cons: it rarely works. I mean, it doesn't start up at all if it crashes!
Summary: DEFINITELY not worth the price the product wants. Logs are horrifically impossible to get out of the system, the app constantly crashes and is slow
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.7
Pros: I had a lot of Information missing about my Music Tracks on iTunes, so I looked into this software and it completed every track what was missing.
Now it looks very Professional, and this is a must if you want all Information.Cons: I cannot think of any dislikes about this product, too me it fixed everything I asked it to do.
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.5.7
Pros: Helps for about 60% of songs that Apple doesn't already identify.
Cons: System freezes up or times out a LOT.
Summary: Over the last 2 months I have cleaned more than 20 thousand tracks. Tracks that have been downloaded and from CDs. The interface is easy, if you are super sensitive to music, you better be ready to hand type a lot of info. Also, the system doesn't s... read more >>
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