Originally Posted July 28 2008

Like many of you, I use iTunes to save and store my music collection.  In addition to the CDs that I purchased, I have several that I created and friends had given to me.  When they got imported into iTunes they show up as 'Track 1', 'Unknown Artist' etc.  not to mention the missing album art.

I was poised to spend the better part of the afternoon listening to each song and manually filling-in what I knew about it when I found a very handy program that will do this automatically!  It will even download missing album cover art.  The best of all its free!

The program is TuneUp for iTunes (for Windows).  Once you download and install it, it will run next to iTunes.  You can then drag and drop any song and it will automatically fill-in the information including the album cover!

I mentioned that it is free but there is a catch – Your are limited to 500 songs (including album covers) and up to 50 album covers.  After that you will have to pay-up.

TuneUp can be downloaded from: http://www.tuneupmedia.com/

My experience is that I was able to find almost all my missing information for my 15GB music collection.  TuneUp was accurate, but it is not 100%.  It wasn't able to label all missing information and it did mislabel a few songs.  Overall, it did fill-in about 300 songs which was great!

As part of my services I can setup your iTunes collection on your computer to play on your stereo without the need of an iPod.  Just give me a call at 512-451-9720 or email me to schedule your appointment!