Saturday, January 17, 2009

Cool tool for iTunes

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I went looking for a tool that will help me with my iTunes problem. I am a genre idiot. I had a hand full of genres covering my collection. If I played Alternative & Punk, I was just a likely to hear Supertramp as I was to hear X. I needed help. I forked out 19.95 for TuneUp. It's sweet!

Of course, now I have Alternative Country, Alternative Pop, Alternative Rock, and Alternative Root to content with. Oh, and lets not forget Alt.Metal. Can you see my smile?

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Gabe Adiv · 849 weeks ago

Gabe Adiv here. CEO of TuneUp. Thanks for the great post! Let us know if we can be of any help.
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psychodiva · 849 weeks ago

definitely a genre geek :)
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Jack 119p · 849 weeks ago

I'll have to check it out. My iTunes library is already in pretty good shape, but it sounds interesting.
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Jack 119p · 849 weeks ago

Question for you Mojoey - does it automatically change the genre for you? If so, this would be a deal breaker for me since I like to set this myself.
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Mojoey 107p · 849 weeks ago

I don't know. I'll have to play with it. The way I have it working it is doing it automatically. I'll do some testing and drop a note.
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Jack 119p · 849 weeks ago

I've been playing with it, and it looks like it is all automatic in how it handles genres. Too bad because it seemed useful otherwise.
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ignored_ethos 41p · 849 weeks ago

It may be just me but when I put on my developer hat and look at tune up I think, for the average iTunes user it is definitely easier to use than Jaikoz, but if you are a geek , you will be underwhelmed. Also, it should really be at least two plugins from a separation of concerns/usability perspective. The Concert and Now Playing features don't belong and their inclusion seems out of place in a metadata correction plugin.
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Larro 73p · 849 weeks ago

Useless to me. I use Linux.

I'm assuming it's an ID3 tagger? I wouldn't like the "automagic" tagging either. I like some sort of control over this myself.

Ok, I see Jaikoz uses the MusicBrainz database (much like Picard); cool. And is available for Linux. Sweet! I like discovering new apps! Thanks ignored_ethos.
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AnnaK · 779 weeks ago

Tune-up is pretty good - it suggests amendments for you and you can then choose if you want them or not. So you still retain control, it doesn't just change it all without you wanting to!

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