- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (500-song/50-cover trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: October 07, 2008
- Total Downloads: 174,565
- Downloads last week: 1,416
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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 :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 1.0.8 adds some new features and support for multiple languages.
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Version 1.0.8 adds some new features and support for multiple languages.
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User reviews of TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 75 votes
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
"Great tool for fixing the tags on MP3s"
Pros: Works wonders, truly finds all mp3 information and album cover art via using the Gracenote cddb database
Cons: A bit slow, but this is probably as much due to the bad 3rd party software support for iTunes as to anything else
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
Pros: I love it because it helps identify unnamed music, singer,title album and gets you the album cover!!
Cons: Not always accurate, you have to check!
Summary: Getting better all the time, the bugs are being ironed out bit by bit, Don't like having to uninstall and then reinstall to receive updates
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Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
"Fantastic even if you don't need your music data clean"
Pros: Cleans up your music, shows you oodles of info about the band and song you're listening to (including concerts, news, videos, etc.), fixes up all your album art, and it looks great.
Cons: It could be a little faster on really HUGE collections.
Summary: I love this add-on! Even after you've cleaned up all your music (which it does a fantastic job on), it's still great because as each tune plays, it shows you all the upcoming concerts that band has (if they have some), any current news about the ban... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
"TuneUp saved my music collection"
Pros: Intelligent database, easy to use and fantastic communication from the developers. And best of all it is reasonably priced!
Cons: Has to keep up with development in iTunes but they are never far behind and we are always well informed.
Summary: I'm not the best at labelling my tunes properly, as soon as I saw a review of TuneUp on Geekbrief.TV I knew I just had to have it. Especially if you have an iPhone or iPod touch you really need all the right album art to make the most of it. TuneUp ... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: TuneUp Companion 1.0.8
"some suggestions for improvement..."
Pros: great idea - generally good execution
Cons: hangs mysteriously at times; would like option to keep it from automatically starting with iTunes - don't always need it coming up; Would also like option to startup minimized...
Summary: When it's working - it's great. At times it seems to stall or hang mysteriously. I've listed a few suggestions for options that would improve user experience...
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