Archive for August 2009
Figure out missing song information with TuneUp!
In the past few weeks I have been asked by quite a few people about how to find missing song information, especially in iTunes. The one app that I would highly recommend by far is TuneUp. I actually got to be a beta tester for TuneUp, and while I don’t use it actively today, it was probably one of the best iTunes add-ons I have ever used.
After installing (which you can use a free trial to check things out), launch iTunes and you should have a new sidebar with all sorts of options. Some include finding missing song details, getting album artwork, finding details about the artist or song, and even concert information (the final two I have never tested, they were released after I had finished my testing). I personally also don’t use the album artwork either, because I find iTunes to be great at that already (right-click on a song, and select ‘Get Album Artwork’).
The one thing I did use this heavily for was getting missing song information. My library has grown almost out of control over the years, to where I had songs I knew were mislabeled or missing mass amounts of information. After clicking on the songs and asking TuneUp to process, everything ‘just worked’. There were a few songs that it couldn’t figure out (that other solutions could), but I was able to clean my entire library over a weekend (easily over 400 songs). At the time of my testing, getting album artwork was also just a click away from all tracks that you were processing.
There are a few other apps similar to this coming out on various platforms, but I really haven’t had a need to try any of them yet, and if I did have to do some ‘heavy lifting’ on my iTunes library again, I would be using TuneUp first.
