Preview: Clean up your music with tuneUP

Posted May 13th 2008 10:00AM by Ian Dumych
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Commercial, Beta

TuneUP is an an application designed to help keep your iTunes library more organized. While a library of only iTunes Store music will be tidy indeed, if you have acquired music from many different sources, the ID3 tags might be a bit confusing.

TuneUP works by comparing the unique sound print of each song to a database, and if new information is available, TuneUP will fix the metadata and rename your songs. It's sort of like having a genius put your books on your shelf for you. Not only does it help with naming, but the software also is able to download album art automatically with a few clicks.

While the design of this software is superb and visually appealing, it doesn't quite deliver in the area of organization. It does indeed make more coherent ID3 tags for songs, but we had hoped that it would properly shelve everything into one album each, rather than the usual album fragments, (with track 1 and 4 in one album, 2 and 8 in another, etc). Hopefully this will be refined in the final release.

TuneUP is in private beta, but we've got 100 invites to give away. Just click the link after the jump.

TuneUP is currently only available for Windows users, with a beta for Mac coming soon. Windows users who want to take it for a spin, check out one of the free invites.

Tags: itunes, music, utilities, windows

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

5-13-2008 @ 10:56AM

fincan said...

There's also Musicbrainz Picard, which is platform independent (i.e runs on all Windows/Mac/Linux) and player independent. This great program saved me of those dreaded "artist - song01" tags:

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger

5-13-2008 @ 11:03AM

kingkool68 said...

I agree, Picard works wonders! Combine that with MediaMonkey and I'm all set!

5-13-2008 @ 11:21AM

corey said...

This sounds like something I could use... Can I have one of those invites please?

5-13-2008 @ 11:40AM

srcstcbstrd said...

Does this only work with the iTunes library? Could it clean up my personal library?

5-13-2008 @ 12:12PM

Gabe Adiv said...

Gabe Adiv here, CEO of TuneUp.

Thanks for the post Ian, glad to see you liked the UI! We are definitely working on the organization elements, and your feedback is very appreciated. Clearly there are a lot of songs out there that appear on numerous albums and giving the user a choice of where he/she wants them is definitely something we're working on.

I also wanted to mention that TuneUp does a lot more than just the cleaning function, it also provides (again, all automatically based on your music collection) cover-art lookup, localized concert listings, music videos, recommended albums, artist web page links, and more. We think of ourselves as "your music's new best friend".

@corey - the link to the invites is written in the article above
@srcstcbstrd - the current version is for iTunes, but we'll be expanding in the future!

5-14-2008 @ 10:41AM

Bill said...

Gabe - My iTunes has saved everything by the 4 letter iTunes code. Will your product bring out the id3 tags, so that I can actually see what I have saved in explorer?
I'd like to try your program. Thanks, Bill.

5-13-2008 @ 12:22PM

mxxcon said...

Based on one of the icons on their site, it looks like it's using musicbrains

5-13-2008 @ 1:16PM

Matthew Fleigle said...

I forgot to read the the application, but I did sign up for the invite. Do we have to wait till friday?

5-13-2008 @ 6:56PM

Rob Gee said...

I'd like to give the program a shot. Thanks!

5-14-2008 @ 10:19AM

Croz said...

Wouldnt mind giving this a bash, judging by the state of my iTunes library i could do with it!

5-14-2008 @ 10:41PM

Kian said...

I would like an invite as well, it would save me from my perfectionist waste of time!

5-16-2008 @ 6:50PM

Matthew Fleigle said...

Are all the invites gone? I requested one shortly after you posted, but its been three days

5-31-2008 @ 5:14PM

Saurabh Agarwal said...

did anyone get an invite? I am pretty sure i requested on early enough..but havent heard back from them

6-02-2008 @ 11:02PM

Gabe Adiv said...

Hi, Gabe Adiv here. CEO of TuneUp. We indeed sent out invites to the first 100 last week and will likely send out to the next 100 this week.

Thanks again for your interest!

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