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- Version: 1.58, 8/15/2009 06:21AM PST
sigbruner
I bought this software recently, so I've only been using it for a couple of weeks, but so far it offers a unique set of features that no other software offers and it's a great companion to iTunes. I have used several other taggers and tools (TuneTagger, Tune Ranger, Jaikoz, iTunify and -- more recently -- Karatunes) with varied experiences. What I really love about TuneUp is the extra information it provides about bands/musicians and related albums. It doesn't do a great job of fixing tags and artwork, but Jaikoz does a decent job of that and it did catch some files that Jaikoz didn't (and vice versa). I consider TuneUp a very valuable addition to my set of tools.
awful - no help at all - Version: 1.52, 8/9/2009 05:21AM PST
ken.ed
this program has a very flashy interface which promises the earth - it will fix your iTunes library 'automagically' the strapline for their marketing asks 'is your iTunes library all messed up?'
well if it wasn't before you use this software, it certainly will be after. i dragged a double album to be 'cleaned' after hanging three or four times, and restarting, it proceeded to delete about one third of the tracks (not from the actual library it has to be said - they just seemed to disappear) it then duplicated another third of the tracks.
crapware at its finest. don't waste your time.
well if it wasn't before you use this software, it certainly will be after. i dragged a double album to be 'cleaned' after hanging three or four times, and restarting, it proceeded to delete about one third of the tracks (not from the actual library it has to be said - they just seemed to disappear) it then duplicated another third of the tracks.
crapware at its finest. don't waste your time.
So far so bad..... - Version: 1.52, 8/4/2009 09:28PM PST
dezitall1959
Have had intermittent success but more failures. Crashing, stalling, freezing. It just took 47 minutes to "CLEAN" 17 Apple Lossless files.... I could have done that manually in about 15 minutes.
Start up is S L O W.... also when switching between multiple libraries it retains the information from the last library and tries to CLEAN it onto the content of the new library. What a mess of an application this is.
Can I have my money back please?
Start up is S L O W.... also when switching between multiple libraries it retains the information from the last library and tries to CLEAN it onto the content of the new library. What a mess of an application this is.
Can I have my money back please?
Not ready for Prime Time - Version: 1.52, 8/4/2009 11:03AM PST
KappaBear
This application was featured on MacZot.com at a substantially discounted price, so I thought I'd check it out, as I've been wanting an application like this. I downloaded and installed it, and then threw about 20 tracks at it, and it was only able to find about 5 or 6 of them. When it did find a match, the song name was always right, but the album was usually way off, frequently suggesting that it was a part of a "disco compilation" or something, instead of the original album that it first appeared on. This application has the potential to be great, but needs a bit more work before I'll buy it. I really wanted it to work for me.
Would be nice but... - Version: 1.50, 5/23/2009 10:19PM PST
peter.mellows
Unfortunately, the developer has not seen fit to support non-Intel architecture.
Sure my dual G5 may be old, but it is still minimum requirements for iLife 09 and every other piece of software I buy, or download, runs just fine on it.
Sure my dual G5 may be old, but it is still minimum requirements for iLife 09 and every other piece of software I buy, or download, runs just fine on it.
spectacular - Version: 1.07b, 4/12/2009 07:22PM PST
eatapc
I downloaded the free trial and threw at it about a dozen obscure songs in several different genres that had me stumped. (Either I couldn't identify the track at all or I didn't have the album info.) It found them all correctly. Wow! One jazz cover it delivered was no longer available -- that was the only hitch.
It was very slow and unresponsive at first -- I couldn't seem to enter info in the required fields to get started, and I was ready to uninstall it right off the bat. But I came back to it a minute later and it was working normally. After reading some negative reviews here I was skeptical that it would perform well, but it's actually very impressive once you figure out the interface.
I bought it, and I'll recommend it to friends.
It was very slow and unresponsive at first -- I couldn't seem to enter info in the required fields to get started, and I was ready to uninstall it right off the bat. But I came back to it a minute later and it was working normally. After reading some negative reviews here I was skeptical that it would perform well, but it's actually very impressive once you figure out the interface.
I bought it, and I'll recommend it to friends.
Good idea but not there yet... - Version: 1.07b, 3/22/2009 07:43AM PST
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Eric van Beest
TuneUp's job is to find the missing information that belongs to unhelpfully mis-titled music files. You know, like the 'Track 06' you downloaded from the internet this morning.
TuneUp's premise is simple. Every piece of music has it's own fingerprint. By drawing up the fingerprint of the music file you give it, it looks up the related information in its database of known fingerprints, and completes the information in iTunes. Easy enough.
Unfortunately, TuneUp isn't there yet. Yes, it will correctly label popular tunes, but you don't really need TuneUp to do that for you. You need it to label the less-popular ones, and that's where it still falls down. Not finding any information on 1/3 of the files I feed it, and misidentifying another 1/3... ouch.
TuneUp's user interface is a bit muddled, but there are choices the developers have to make to cater for both Mac OS X and Windows. It also blithely assumes you have enough screen real estate on your 13" MacBook to run both iTunes and TuneUp side by side.
With further development, and especially refinement of the fingerprinting, TuneUp will get there. But it still has some way to go.
TuneUp's premise is simple. Every piece of music has it's own fingerprint. By drawing up the fingerprint of the music file you give it, it looks up the related information in its database of known fingerprints, and completes the information in iTunes. Easy enough.
Unfortunately, TuneUp isn't there yet. Yes, it will correctly label popular tunes, but you don't really need TuneUp to do that for you. You need it to label the less-popular ones, and that's where it still falls down. Not finding any information on 1/3 of the files I feed it, and misidentifying another 1/3... ouch.
TuneUp's user interface is a bit muddled, but there are choices the developers have to make to cater for both Mac OS X and Windows. It also blithely assumes you have enough screen real estate on your 13" MacBook to run both iTunes and TuneUp side by side.
With further development, and especially refinement of the fingerprinting, TuneUp will get there. But it still has some way to go.
Not worth using - Version: 1.07b, 3/21/2009 02:48PM PST
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Magnus Dredd
Needlessly requires registration to a website.
No uninstaller provided.
No uninstaller provided.
Finds metadata other programs miss - Version: 1.06, 3/10/2009 10:47PM PST
wmillik9
I've been running Tunup against a number of orphan files that other programs can't fix. It has found the correct collection with cover yet. On the other hand it crashes fairly frequently with no data loss. I paid for it and find it another useful tool in my music collection utilities.
Drag 3 song to clean and it show 5. WTF?
Have to drag song to clean several times before it accepts them.
Changed some of my Bob Marley song to New Age others to Alternate. Warren Zevon is country?
Add series of random numbers to titles, such as "08 08 08 08 08 08 Exodus"
Some titles and artist are in UPPER CASE, others are in all lower case.
Where do they dig up these goofy art work?
Is every song from "Greatest Hits" or some "Disco Compulation"????? What about the original albums covers?
Where do these guys get their data?
They need to do some serious Cleaning of their data before you spend any money on this crappy piece of software. Don't worry I'll update when it's worth the buy.
By the way, it's a processor hog as well. Uses up about 15% of my processors just sitting there.