Too many songs in iTunes not tagged properly
Two weeks ago, I had 8000+ songs, and most of it was quite a mess in iTunes. Many of them had missing album names, and artist names. Some had wrong track titles, and most did not have any album art. Attempting a cleanup of that scale would take weeks of painstaking work, so I never really got around to it. Today however, every single track is perfectly clean.
How to clean it up fast
The TuneUp iTunes plug-in is perhaps the single, easiest way to clean up all the patchy information in your iTunes. All I did was to drag and drop songs into TuneUp, and that’s it.
How does it work? Every piece of music whatever the source has a certain audio signature. TuneUp will compare that signature with the online music database Gracenote, and retrieves all the information and album art about the song and puts it in iTunes. Say goodbye to "Track 01". No more "Unknown Artist". No more "Notorious B.I.G" vs. "Biggie Smalls". No more "Beatles" vs. "The Beatles" and missing cover art in one smooth step.
I’ve tried other free solutions like ‘Musicbrainz’, but integration with music already added in iTunes is patchy, and it’s about 10 times harder to use. TuneUp is without a doubt the best option for this job by a mile.
Get a lifetime subscription for FREE
The free version of TuneUp will allow you to clean 500 songs at no cost. They also offer a 1 year unlimited song cleanup subscription at USD11.95, and a lifetime subscription for USD19.95 (limited offer).
The good folks at TuneUp however have agreed to give away FIVE LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTIONS for FREE! Now you can have clean tracks on your iTunes forever!
Contest entry steps:
- Download, Install, and Register TuneUp
- Send an email to friedbeef@tuneupmedia.com from the email address that you registered with, asking for a subscription. Brownie points given to those who include something to make them laugh.
- Sit back and cross your fingers.
The contest deadline is until 4th September – so enter now – even if you don’t win – you’ll at least get to clean up 500 songs for free :)
Congratulations to the winners:
Madeleine Bowling : Who also wins a Tune Up Tshirt and bag on top of a lifetime subscription to TuneUp.
Sonia Balaram
Darren Klashovski
Richard Leake
Lhan Gannon
…All of which win a lifetime subscription to TuneUp.
August 8th, 2009 at 3:42 am
I’d have to say TuneUp is weak at best. I have been using it for 3 months and it stalls out and crashes all the time. You’ll get a message “Not Responding” or the window will just stop working. I think they need to spend more time making a product that doesn’t time out all the time; and NO IT’S NOT my internet connection as it sometimes says.