- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (500-song/50-cover trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: August 31, 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 1.0.4 includes speed improvements and bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.4 includes speed improvements and bug fixes.
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User reviews of TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 74 votes
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
Pros: easy to get downloads
Cons: needs to be more user friendly. .
Summary: it is beautiful. .
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
"Not as useful as it seems to be."
Pros: Its a good idea, but needs to be worked on a lot.
Cons: It makes many mismatches, it can only work with itunes, you can only clean and find cover art from your library, not your ipod, and it slows down the computer a lot.
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1 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
"throws up some strange matches"
Pros: not much really
Cons: no way to update without re installing
Summary: worst thing is it is tied to itunes
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1 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
Pros: Nothing, I was hoping it would help find my music artwork covers for older music I own that I had bought but it didn't work at all
Cons: Found the wrong artwork, took FOREVER to download what it did find. Couldn't match music to artwork what so ever. After waiting 10 minutes for it to download on cover I quit using it. Then I tried again and it helped crashed my laptop.
Summary: I don't honestly know if buying it would of been worth it for me. I have music that I have bought and it couldn't find the artwork. I own Toys in the Attic and it couldn't even find the right artwork cover for it! I wouldn't buy it personally. It do... read more >>
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.4
"A very good program, glad I found it!"
Pros: Very good, very impressed, works very well!
Cons: Sometimes the artwork is a completely different album which is rather strange.
Summary: I think this is a great program, it certainly finds a lot of the tracks and artwork but not all, better than nothing at all though!
It does act odd at times though but I'm sure the makers will eventually iron out the bugs.
I find using i... read more >> - See all 7 user reviews Write review
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