Comments on: TuneUp Brings Its iTunes Cleanup Wizard To The Mac

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By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:51:22 +0000

Tuneup is powered from the Gracenote database … so is Winamp. You can right click on a song in Winamp and send it to “Auto-Tag.” Since Tuneup is slow, so very slow, in their release scheduling, use Winamp in the meantime if you want Gracenote.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:49:26 +0000

Are you kidding me? There have been plans for months now to release an UPDATED version of TuneUp that addresses the concerns voiced in your forum. Time has passed, and there has been no update.

By: Ben Saren

Ben Saren — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:40 +0000

Holy crap, after using TuneUp for a week or so, I realized that the issues on my Mac, with respects to performance, have been entirely as a result of TuneUp. What a pig! Avoid it, for now anyway.

By: Craig Traxler

Craig Traxler — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:54:05 +0000

I have hundreds of cd’s that I have purchased and ripped. This is a big time saver for me. I also agree that I may not be the norm.

By: a. bosch

a. bosch — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:47:19 +0000

Ditto. I ripped a ton of stuff a long time ago and never got the album art. I’m using the product now. Not perfect, but very good on matching albums.

By: Tan The Man

Tan The Man — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:47:01 +0000

Let’s try it…

By: Gabe Adiv

Gabe Adiv — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:49:49 +0000

Gabe Adiv here, CEO of TuneUp.

First off, thank you to TechCrunch for the write up.

We’ve tried a number of other music/metadata management programs and found them either really difficult to use or inaccurate which is why we created TuneUp. Our feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, but we are not without issues. That said, we are working day and night to address them as quickly as possible.

For those of you that are having a less than positive experience with TuneUp we truly want to help. Please contact me directly at gabeaATtuneupmediaDOTcom – I want to hear about your experience and I’ll coordinate with our engineers to make sure we take care of each TuneUp user.

We are not owned by Gracenote. We license their MusicID technology for our “Clean” feature. This decision was made after a lot of testing of multiple services. We’ve found that our users have been extremely pleased with the results that they’ve gotten. That said, we are constantly working with them to make sure improvements are made based on user feedback.

As far as the “Original Album” issue, this is at the top of our list. We will have a fix for it soon.

Thanks again for all of your great feedback. This sort of stuff is really important as we’re constantly improving our product

By: Vishal

Vishal — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:27:45 +0000

My experience with TuneUp was less than spectacular. The interface is slow and unresponsive. It doesn’t play well with Expose either. When I dragged ~300 songs over to have them cleaned up I got the spinning beach ball for 30 minutes with random updates and errors happening in the application window. It didn’t even let me click on the OK button for the error. I finally gave up and had to Force Quit.

Relaunching shows the identified tracks but scrolling up and down is really really slow. This is on a MacBook Pro with 4 gigs of RAM.

I think I’ll pass until they chalk up a couple of minor version numbers.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:26:11 +0000

“All fed by the user of course.”

Since thievery has been Gracenote’s business model from day one, it comes as no surprise.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:23:23 +0000

So what’s your point?

By: Gisli Haukur Þorvaldsson

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:02:59 +0000

thanks kelly !

By: Jay King

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:41:35 +0000

Sounds worth playing with…

By: Matt G

Matt G — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:37:58 +0000

I have been using TuneUp for a while. In general I am happy with it, however my main problem is that often times, the Album that it assigns to your song is not the original album that it appeared on. For instance, Juke Box Hero likely won’t get tagged as being on Foreigner 4, but rather “Greatest 70s Hits Vol 8!”

By: iProtestant

iProtestant — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:22:45 +0000

agreed. especially if the music is pre 1950s; like everything i listen too.

i million different collections from many, many publishers with a lot of track overlap.

i’ll give this a shot for sure.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Awesome, always wanted to try this software, thanks!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:44:21 +0000

Thanks! Greatly appreciated

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:42:34 +0000

Finding an accurate music database with which to clean files is one of the hardest parts of creating an app like this. We looked in to some of the proprietary music databases (like Gracenote) to use with FixTunes but found their accuracy didn’t justify the cost.

FixTunes uses multiple data sources and is constantly comparing and filtering the data in an effort to get the most accurate song details. And user-entered data is never the starting point. Using just Gracenote or just Amazon or just FreeDB won’t get you too far.

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By: Chris McCorkle

Chris McCorkle — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:30:40 +0000

Thanks for this. I’ll let you know how I like it!

By: Thomas Reemer

Thomas Reemer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:22:22 +0000

this is a company/service owned by Gracenote, that should tell you everything you need to know. Because Gracenote is the reason for the incorrect tagging, this is THEIR solution to get it right finally. All fed by the user of course.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:19:19 +0000

@shelfoo It works everywhere. You’ll want to go to the purchase page and type in the discount code and it will allow you to begin using it!

By: apaulable

apaulable — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:09:27 +0000

@Kelly thanks, I’ve got a mess of audio (5 years of college radio and tons of audio that was unreleased, live, etc) that will certainly put you to the test but I’m with Chris, if this can get even a fraction of the chaos in order you’ll get payment anyway

By: shelfoo

shelfoo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:51:32 +0000

Doh, the free fixtunes only works if you’re in the US.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:56:01 +0000

Thanks for the free Fixtunes! If it’s good I’ll send money anyway