- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (500-song/50-cover trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: August 08, 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 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 :TuneUp is your Music Collection's new best friend. It plugs right into 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 things like: "Track 07", Unknown Artist, "The Beetles", LeD_zePPeliN, Notorious B.I.G. vs. BIG vs. Biggie Smalls? Not anymore. Super easy to use.
Version 1.0.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.2 is a bug fixing release.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.3
Pros: Damn, why didn't anyone think of this earlier? It classified all that music I'd been putting off relabling and thus never listened to(about 20 'track 1's, etc.) And it did all this with an easy download and minimal drama. Telling all my friends...
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.3
Pros: I like the easy of use, quite quick and good accuracy.
Cons: With iTunes filling the screen, I didn't notice TuneUp off to the right. No way to determine which tracks I've processed already.
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