Well, I'm going to take one for the team and admit it - my iTunes collection is probably the worst looking mess in all my circle of friends. Surely, diversity in music can be a good thing, but not when it comes to an organized music library. This is where TuneUp comes in, zipping through the meta data and churning out proper titles and album art.
Well, we think Biz Markie & Andy Milonakis (from that MTV show way back when) do a pretty good job walking us through the process:
Grab TuneUp for free over here (Good up to 100 song clean ups and 50 album cover grabs). If you like it enough, you can pay a $20 yearly fee or a $30 for a lifetime pass to their service.
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Comments (7)
My tv/movie pieces of iTunes are BEAUTIFUL. They are all neat and orderly and I have yes gone thru and ripped everything so I have it all at my fingertips. My hundreds of movies collection is now digital and it is so clean. Everything has a good image, dates, orders, numbers, a description, all the movies that are part of groups are grouped (Indy/Shrek/etc etc).
But my music? It's a horrible horrible disaster. (Mostly cause I don't like music or listen much at all.) So this could be great to go thru and do a serious ordering for me. Thank you! My obscene iTunes folder weeps pretty tears!
Has anyone else used this? Reviews please...
Looks like TuneUp is sending us a review copy! Stay tuned for impressions after we test it in our Unplggd Labs!
I think BoingBoing reviewed it a while back. I know I heard of it first over there.
Mac users might want to beware. This app is anything but a declutterer when it comes to the application itself. See this:
http://tomdale.net/2008/12/11/uninstalling-tuneup-for-the-mac/
Seems uninstalling it (a pain in of itself) yields some nasty secrets about files it puts all over your computer. Very very unMac like of them.
marcelebrate...thanks for the warning. i hate apps like that.
I usually let iTunes grab album artwork for me. Sure, there are a few it doesn't pick up, but they're mostly rare albums and B sides, so it's really not a big deal to me. And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't lack of info and artwork most commonly associated with illegal downloads? When I imported my CDs into iTunes the metadata and artwork came up automatically, even for the really old ones. I doubt that most people who don't pay for their music are going to pay for a service that finds the album artwork.