If you are an avid iTunes user like me, one of the most aggravating problems you have to deal with is the problems mislabeled iD3 tags have on album artwork. Some might think this isn’t too big of issue, but with the popularity of Cover Flow® on new Apple Products (I’m looking at you iPhone and iPod Touch), any sort of kinks with album artwork, no matter how minor there are, snowballs into a major sorting issue. The two most common problems I have are unrecognized album artwork or, for some reason or another, tracks from the same album associated with different album art.
Enter Tune-Up: a program which correctly relabels your iD3 tags and, as a result, selects correct album artwork for every album it finds in its searchable directory. Always linked whenever you open iTunes, Tune-Up has a nice interface where you can drag and drop problematic CDs and it will automatically find and fix the problems. I’ve been using Tune-Up for about a year now and I’ve only had a handful of disks which it couldn’t find (mostly hip-hop mixtapes) – it’s THAT good.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what this program can do. To help with getting started, you can have it automatically sift through your entire iTunes library and find potential problems. Also, anytime you are playing a track from your library, Tune-Up finds relevant youtube videos of the song title which results in a bunch of user submitted live recordings of the song! To cap it off, it can also find upcoming concerts of any of the bands in your iTunes library, so you don’t have to constantly check ticketmaster or venues’ websites.
Tune-Up is just a great overall music companion that is helpful in so many ways. Currently, it’s free to try for up to 500 cleaned songs a month, or if you want to shell out the $20.00 for a lifetime subscription you can get the full version which has unlimited song clean-ups.