Comments on: TuneUp your iTunes collection

By: Dave Everitt

Dave Everitt — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:10:24 +0000

I’m afraid this app seems to be a bit of a mess – on OS X Tiger it froze with a blank window on launch, froze Safari twice with an https link, and found nothing I didn’t already have. If your iTunes library is a real mess and you don’t clean up as you go, it just might help, but I’m afraid – after a really bad start – I just don’t trust it. The uninstall isn’t at all obvious, and fails to remove the many files this app installs. I don’t often remove an app right after installing and trying it out, but I did with this one.

By: captain

captain — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:06:30 +0000

Ditto what leia709 said, and beware that the “uninstall” does NOT remove all the clutter that this horribly written app installs on your computer with ADMIN privileges! After reading some of the EULA I’m not even sure they aren’t installing trojans on my system! I’m thinking a full reformat may be in order. Not Happy!

By: DIANE

DIANE — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:00:10 +0000

There is an inquiry regarding getting all your pictures in one place on your computer. I have found a very user friendly computer. It is Picasa and even for a computer illieterate person like me, works really well

By: leia709

leia709 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:14:20 +0000

A cool idea, but it installs a bunch of unwanted files in the background on my Mac and it’s a very limited trial.

By: » Gleaned: TuneUp your iTunes Living Juicy

» Gleaned: TuneUp your iTunes Living Juicy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:07:36 +0000

[...] Gleaned: TuneUp your iTunes 17 Aug 2009 “In addition to identifying songs in iTunes, TuneUp also fixes formatting, finds rarer cover art, matches artist names, and even gives information about the songs in your collection sort of like VH1’s old Pop-Up Videos.” Source: TuneUp your iTunes collection, Unclutterer [...]

By: nXqd

nXqd — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:45:15 +0000

Thanks Ravi so much
I really need time to organize my music collection again

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:07:14 +0000

I liked TuneUp but be aware of the following before you buy this:

- If you buy a 1 year license, TuneUp automatically creates a repeating yearly payment and will charge again next year. I only noticed this because PayPayl warned me that TuneUp set up a recurring payment.

- TuneUp loves to pull the album information from compilations and best of albums. I have over 12,000 songs in iTunes. While it did clean up a lot of my songs, it pulled back compilation albums for many others were I already had the album name. Be careful when you don’t get an exact match. It will pull compilations over a correct album name.

- A number of times TuneUp pulled back the song information in another language – Chinese, Japanese, Russian and German. Even when I had the names in English and my preference was English.

By: Tuning d’iTunes | Dans la tête à Vanyel

Tuning d’iTunes | Dans la tête à Vanyel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:27:36 +0000

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By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:46:34 +0000

Thanks Ravi. I wanted something I could use without yucky iTunes.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:06:49 +0000

I recommend checking out MusicBrainz Picard as a free (and potentially better) product.

It’s community-sourced, so I often find I get better results with more eclectic music (not to mention, it does a better job of handling featured artists, often found in hip-hop music, than TuneUp does).

I have a license for TuneUp, but I still use MusicBrainz 99% of the time.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:10:41 +0000

Hi, TIffany from TuneUp here.
Thanks so much for the review and letting your Unclutterer readers know about us! We definitely understand the value of organizing and cleaning your iTunes library, and we’re so glad that you featured us; which is why we are running a 15% discount code for Unclutterers. Simply enter: UNCLUTTER at checkout. Thanks again! Happy TuneUpping

By: TuneUp Helps Clean Your Music Collection / The Productive Student

TuneUp Helps Clean Your Music Collection / The Productive Student — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:09:36 +0000

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By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:39:05 +0000

Cool! I wish I’d know about this before I spent 3 hours a day for 2 weeks organizing my collection!

By: megan

megan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:22:10 +0000

I’ve used TuneUp for a while now. It is my friend.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:45:49 +0000

This is kind of awesome, I didn’t realize things like this existed either. My boyfriend is constantly on my case for having songs labeled incorrectly in my playlist. This will make it look like I did SO much work.