Use TuneUp To Fix Your iTunes Library

Use TuneUp To Fix Your iTunes Library

We all have iTunes libraries that could use a little cleaning up, especially when it comes to finding out the albums and proper artist tags of all those tracks you got from your friend and torrented.

More in Software | July 22nd, 2009

TuneUp is currently the best option for libraries that need some cleaning up. It acts as an attachment to your iTunes, or sort of a side drawer into which you can drop any tracks you want. TuneUp will do its best at finding all the meta information it can. Most of the time it’s pretty accurate.

Not only will it find you all the meta information, it will also find the album artwork. So no more boring iTunes libraries. The only downside I’ve found to using this application is that certain tracks appear on multiple releases, as well as releases with various artists. In these cases it does a poor job at finding the correct information and artwork.

The application does have a dedicated “cover art” retriever which scans your whole library for any tracks without cover art. You can then choose which ones to apply the art to. Very nice.

TuneUp does a few other nifty things besides finding the meta info and cover art, for example it finds concert dates/prices of bands in your area that you have in your library. It also has what’s called the Tuniverse that will show you any other info it can find on the internet about the music currently playing, including YouTube videos, Ebay auctions, you name it.

The app costs $29.99 which means the larger your library is the more it’s worth it.

Tags: iTunes, OS X