Client Launch: TuneUp intros killer iTunes Companion
July 15th, 2008 by andrewThe music lovers at TuneUp Media, a client based here in San Francisco, launched their iTunes Companion software today. Here’s an overview of what they are doing:
What’s the one problem most people have with their digital music collections? They’re msesy, err… messy. They’re missing albums, artists, or track names (Track01 ring a bell?). For most of us, this is something we tolerate because we don’t have the time to fix songs one by one, and previous tools are too complicated or ineffective to bother with.
Introducing the new TuneUp Companion for iTunes. TuneUp plugs into your music collection and automatically fixes your mislabeled song information. It takes the audio “fingerprint” of a song, compares it to over 90 million songs in the Gracenote database, and fills in the missing info. No more “Track 01’s”. No more Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones, and TheStones. No more headaches looking for music on your iPod or iPhone. We like to say, “It’s your music’s new best friend.”
TuneUp also automatically finds missing cover art for your albums and lets you pick from up to 4 options so if you really want that import cover, you got it. You can even save all of the album covers at once with a handy “Save All” button.
So you’ve cleaned your music, found your cover art, what’s next? TuneUp integrates seamlessly beside iTunes to present the web’s best content in the “Now Playing” tab. Every time you hit play, TuneUp searches the web to provide music videos from YouTube, merchandise from eBay, song/album recommendations from Amazon, and news from Google for the artist and song you’re playing.
Additionally TuneUp lets you know when artists in your collection are coming to town with a “Concerts” tab. Even better, they pull information from both national and local sources so you won’t miss the next Justice concert, or the next show from local artist Sean Hayes.
TuneUp has something for everyone, and you can try cleaning your first 500 songs for free at www.tuneupmedia.com.
Useful links:
- TuneUp home page
- TuneUp blog
- TuneUp news feed
- Launch press release
- Online media kit (includes demo video, pix, etc)
- Joint press release with Gracenote
Coverage so far (will be updated throughout the day):
- Geek.com’s detailed review
- Lifehacker
- TechCrunch
- Venture Beat
- ZatzNotFunny
- UberGizmo
- KillerStartups
- Addicted to Digital Media detailed review
- Download Squad
- CNET Download.com detailed review
- Boing Boing
- GeekBrief.Tv
