by Paul,
on 1/06/2009.
Tune Up for iTunes Review - Mac Edition - DO NOT BUY
So, after reading this review on Boing Boing of the iTunes meta-info cleaner Tune Up, i decided to buy it sight unseen.
What a piece of shit. I would dump a few hundred songs into it at a time, and several times per load, It would reassign the wrong albums to to songs, and even completely mistake a song. And when you've got a huge collection it'd be impossible for me to figure out what's missing - or be able to reassign the correct name to the song without an annoying amount of work (or luck). Thank god for Time Machine.
And aside from these failures, the software itself works terribly. Clunky beyond belief, crashes constantly, gives weird messages, or just hangs for 5 minutes. And this from a 1.0 release (i just tried version 1.02, and it was not noticeably better).
But wait, there's more suckage. The app itself is a window that docks to the right side of the itunes window. constantly redrawing itself and generally getting confused about where it should be on the screen - especially with my dual monitor set up.
And finally, In an act of complete stupidity, as long as it's installed, it auto opens when you launch itunes. There's no way to disable it short of uninstalling it by way of a uninstaller that for some god-forsaken reason is in your "library/logs" folder and presents you with a list of obscure files in the "/bin" folder to uninstall with no guidance about what you should and shouln't get rid of (I think you can get rid of them all - i have and have not experienced any problems). Seriously, this should be a visualizer plug in like the wonderful iconcertcal.
What this thing is good for, is taking a single album that has no track names and fixing the meta data on it. Unfortunately, to accomplish this function you have to install and uninstall the app as needed 'cause there is no sane-minded reason to have this annoying, buggy window open the whole time you have itunes open. In which case it's faster to get the track names off Amazon.
Getting a virus is more fun than this software.
What a piece of shit. I would dump a few hundred songs into it at a time, and several times per load, It would reassign the wrong albums to to songs, and even completely mistake a song. And when you've got a huge collection it'd be impossible for me to figure out what's missing - or be able to reassign the correct name to the song without an annoying amount of work (or luck). Thank god for Time Machine.
And aside from these failures, the software itself works terribly. Clunky beyond belief, crashes constantly, gives weird messages, or just hangs for 5 minutes. And this from a 1.0 release (i just tried version 1.02, and it was not noticeably better).
But wait, there's more suckage. The app itself is a window that docks to the right side of the itunes window. constantly redrawing itself and generally getting confused about where it should be on the screen - especially with my dual monitor set up.
And finally, In an act of complete stupidity, as long as it's installed, it auto opens when you launch itunes. There's no way to disable it short of uninstalling it by way of a uninstaller that for some god-forsaken reason is in your "library/logs" folder and presents you with a list of obscure files in the "/bin" folder to uninstall with no guidance about what you should and shouln't get rid of (I think you can get rid of them all - i have and have not experienced any problems). Seriously, this should be a visualizer plug in like the wonderful iconcertcal.
What this thing is good for, is taking a single album that has no track names and fixing the meta data on it. Unfortunately, to accomplish this function you have to install and uninstall the app as needed 'cause there is no sane-minded reason to have this annoying, buggy window open the whole time you have itunes open. In which case it's faster to get the track names off Amazon.
Getting a virus is more fun than this software.
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