- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (500-song/50-cover trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: July 14, 2008
- Total Downloads: 174,565
- Downloads last week: 1,416
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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 in the fall. 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 $11.95.
Publisher's description
From Tuneup Media :TuneUp works seamlessly with iTunes to automatically clean your incorrectly labeled music. It finds your missing album cover art, it lets you know when your favorite bands are performing in concert, and provides you with the best music content on the web. Do you have a lot of songs named "Track 07"? Have various tracks by one artist, but named differently and show up in different places (Notorious B.I.G., BIG, Biggie Smalls)? Fixing this takes forever and is a total nightmare.Clean addresses this by automatically correcting your tracks for you. Clean does your dirty work so you can actually find and listen to your music.Find your missing cover art.Got a new iPhone, iPod or MacBook and want to browse your collection with Cover Flow? Do those grey music notes harsh your mellow? Cover Art searches the web to find all of those missing album covers for you automatically.
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User reviews of TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 74 votes
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
Pros: Does what it says in an amazingly short amount of time.
Cons: Install seemed a little buggy, runs maybe as little system hog, ran better after rebooting a few times. I will probably buy this eventually.
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
Pros: Whoever thought of this must be a genius! I dragged and dropped my 'dirty' files, finished cooking dinner and came back to my new and improved itunes! Album cover art, no more duplicates and I know what shows are coming to town! What?!?! Nothing is ever that easy...but this is! Purchased it immediately. 20$ for a lifetime, I doubt that offer will be around for long so don't wait!
Cons: I had zero problems. It was soooooooo easy! Made me feel tech smart!
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14 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
"Excellent product and fantastic customer service"
Pros: Software works very well, making it extremely easy to clean up a large music collection.
Customer service from the company is also extremely good, with fast replies and no hassles.
Highly Recommended
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14 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
"Wow. That's all I can say about this new app."
Pros: Being the music geek that I am (not to mention obsessive to a fault), I once had a dream that there was an application that could automatically correct portions of my music collection that were "messy". I told a friend about this dream and we both realized that we really had a problem, in that we were actually *dreaming* about fixing our music collections.
As I began to collect more and more music, I started to resign myself to
the fact that I'd either have to spend massive amounts of my precious time
manually fixing my music or just wait for my dream to come true. Well,
Tuneup has solved that problem for me. With a few clicks and drags, I've gone through most of my collection and Tuneup has corrected ALL of my "messy" music. The application is simple to use and its actually a lot of fun to reacquaint myself with some of the music that I didn't listen to, due to the messy info (track 1, track 2, etc.). This is the real deal folks, download it immediately.
Thank you to the good folks at Tuneupmedia. You've made me very happy.
Cons: I wish you could manually specify "genre", but hopefully in the next version this will be an option.
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14 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.1
"Even my brain feels cleaned up and organized."
Pros: It's simple and works. It's like asking the cleaning lady to not only fold your laundry, but color coordinate your closet. Also, I love that all of my tracks from The Beetles are spelled the same and under the same name!
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