TuneUp Media for Mac

5.0 stars

"I did a 9,000 song library easily in a couple hours!!"

April 2, 2012  |   By staugiedawg88

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

Accuracy---it is demanding on your system but the end product reigns supreme!

Cons

The Fact that you either have to purchase or bundle to get album art.

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5.0 stars

"NEW VERSION 2.4 is FANTASTIC"

March 4, 2012  |   By 1sdman

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

Fast, accurate,brings in artwork as well as all the title, artist, year and other info.

New version has fixed ALL the known issues I had. DO NOT base your purchase on any other version, the old one actually was weak in a few areas but this is fixed. I have a 24,000 song library and this is now much faster for all operations.

LOVE IT!

Cons

Version 2.4.0 seems to be near perfect.

Summary

I have used TuneUp Pro for the last three versions. Yes, it had problems before but it was still worth it. Now it seems they have worked out all the bugs and it runs like we all wanted! Very pleased. I have a fairly large library of 24,000+ songs. Now there are no slowdowns anywhere in the various situations or scenarios like the old versions.
Ver 2.4.0 is great - I HIGHLY recommend now.

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5.0 stars

"One of a kind"

January 25, 2012  |   By DCpolitico

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

There is no other application I have found on the market that does what TuneUp does. The only alternative is cleaning your library by hand. Which means looking up tracks, labeling, finding duplicates, and I'm not eve sure where you would begin on the cover art.

Cons

Can be slow processing, and can crash, best to do in small doses

Summary

If you don't dare attempt to clean your library by hand this app is the way to go.

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5.0 stars

"Cover Art, De-Dupe, and Labels"

January 24, 2012  |   By ArlingtonTechie

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

I have a lot of downloaded music in my library a.k.a. a lot of songs with no titles, no covers, and some duplicates I don't know about because many of the songs are untitled. TuneUp first labeled all my songs, then got rid of all my duplicates, and added cover art to all my downloaded songs.

Cons

A few of the songs were labeled incorrectly and some of the cover art was off. I broke the library down into smaller parts to speed up processing.

Summary

If you have a junky looking library this is the software for you.

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1.0 stars

"Pure Rubbish"

January 22, 2012  |   By stevenstumpf

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

I tried nearly all 'music matching' services, couldn't find one that's good. And oh, money doesn't matter to me.

Cons

- Extremely slow
- Expensive
- Inaccurate
- Works with commercial collection discs, and gives commercial names to it. A correct 'Dr. Felix' will be replaces by 'Various Artists' (this will be the case for 70% of their 'matches')

Summary

Poor program. To avoid. Same goes for all other automatic mp3 tagging programs.

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5.0 stars

"Super Time Saver"

December 28, 2011  |   By ashleigh_k

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

- Elliminates your duplicate tracks (only missed a few of mine)
- Adds Song Titles/Artists/Album (again, I was surprised at the accuracy)
- Adds Cover Art (Less accurate than the other two features but still pretty cool)

Cons

- Takes longer to run that I expected
- Occasional errors in song/duplicates
- Can crash if you select too much music at a time

Summary

This organized my iTunes with little effort required from me. Manually removing duplicates and listening too/looking up song titles/album titles/artists is a huge time suck. TuneUp really saved me a headache. I think I would have made more mistakes looking up and labeling songs by hand than TuneUp did automatically.

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1.0 stars

"TuneUp Gold's "lifetime" upgrade...ISN'T."

December 23, 2011  |   By vandrakes

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

App works fine; filled in the blanks that iTunes had.

Cons

Slow and buggy. Worse than that, after buying a "lifetime" Gold license, the company added a "DeDuper" to the application and offered 25 demo "dedupes"...after which "lifetime" members could pay more money for additional "dedupes." Other software is out there...BUY IT INSTEAD.

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4.0 stars

"Finally made my iTunes library look legitimate!"

December 19, 2011  |   By nmdallas86

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

For the past half a decade I have been adding to my library from all sorts of websites and even old mix CDs. This has resulted in lots of duplicates, songs that are virtually impossible to find since they are improperly labeled, and maybe one out of every ten songs actually has an album cover associated with it. TuneUp was able to get rid of virtually all of my duplicates, and add song titles and album covers to probably 90% of my library.

Cons

It took a little while to go through my whole library, which I guess is understandable. I did have it crash on me when I tried to do my whole library at one time, but when I broke it down into smaller chunks I didn't have a problem. Like I said in the pro section, it got rid of almost all my duplicates, but it still did miss a few and messed up on some of the cover art.

Summary

If you are kind of OCD like I am and the fact that your library isn't organized eventually starts to bug you then this is worth your $40. You have to be patient, and break it down into small segments to avoid crashing. The end result is a lot of saved time and a library that you can actually find all those "hidden gems" you downloaded years ago and totally forgot about.

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4.0 stars

"One of the better music organizing apps"

December 12, 2011  |   By smartymarti

Version: TuneUp Media 2.2.0

Pros

This is a great iTunes plug-in that is easy to use and works just as advertised. It was able to clean and organize my music collection, remove duplicates, and find missing cover art really well.

Cons

It's a bit slow when starting up and has some issues accurately recognizing box collections and compilations (which I know is not entirely their fault).

Summary

TuneUp is probably one of the better music organizing products that I've come across. In the past, I've given other services like Tidy Songs and Rinse a shot, but none have ever seemed to come nearly as close to TuneUp.

I was actually quite surprised with what the Clean feature was able to do with my collection. I understand that the program gathers information from the Gracenote database, which is pretty extensive. I have a lot of classical music, and TuneUp was able to find the information for a great deal of them. Of course, the results weren't always accurate, particularly when it came to my box collections. However, it did a good enough job identifying most of my music.

I don't really understand all the issues of crashing. If you're trying to process your entire library, I could see someone running into problems. TuneUp works well when you put a few songs in it at a time. I myself like to drag and drop either per album or per artist. That seems to do the trick.

I also find the Concerts features very handy, as well. I like to keep up to date with latest shows that are happening near by, so it's great to have that extra info right there.

My music library is a lot better off than it was before. It beats filling in all that missing and incorrect metadata manually.

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