TuneUp

Just a quick word of advice – Don’t ever use TuneUp.

Yeah Yeah, I too saw the adverts posted all around the blogosphere and immediately wrote it off as a gimmick which would probably use some sort of peer to peer system to determine what track length and waveform your mp3 is usually tagged as.

I didn’t believe in the tech behind it, and I was right. I downloaded the trial last night which promised 500 retags before you have to pay for it. I reorganised my iTunes library to put music at the bottom which wasn’t tagged with an album, I thought that way that all my remixes and obscure singles should get filed away nicely like the rest of it.

It didn’t quite do that.

As I was throwing some really obscure stuff into the program, it searched and matched up my mp3s in a database and came out by tagging them all as African chants or obscure Thai ballad singers. It was lucky I had a backup of my entire music folder on a hard drive, otherwise I’d have lost that Crystal Castles mix of Klaxons forever.

On the plus side, I tried some more mainstream releases than you can probably find in the iTunes store and they worked a treat. It also did a great job of renaming most of the remixes I had as the actual title of the song, so rather than having lots of remixes for Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork, I had about 20 copies of the same song.

I had the feeling it wouldn’t work properly, and funnily enough it didn’t. So yeah, don’t expect any adverts for this broken program to be filling up this blog too soon.