It’s hard to believe that iTunes is now more than ten years old. Since 2001, it has seen Windows support added, the Genius feature, library sharing, playlists, books and, of course, the iTunes Store. If you’re anything like us, then during those ten years your music collection will have grown to an almost unmanageable size. It’s not uncommon to see iTunes music libraries several weeks in total play length, or duplicate music tracks that have become jumbled up in the playlist. As a result, an aging iTunes music library can soon become a mess, with missing cover art and albums split into several parts. So how exactly does one go about tidying and re-organising an iTunes library that has bloated to a size of unimaginable scope?
Is one solution. It’s a plug-in for iTunes that can fix mislabelled song information, add missing cover art, reorganise albums, display artist details, enable you to purchase concert tickets and share music with friends. Quite an impressive feature set, and one that’s surprisingly easy to use. TuneUp will automatically start cleaning up your tracks when you drag them into its panel Three versions of the program are available: a free lite option will analyse and clean 100 songs and apply 100 cover artworks, an annual pass, priced $19.95, will sort and organise your music collection for a year, and a one-off payment of $29.95 gives you a Gold Pass, enabling unlimited song and cover art fixes. All three versions also include unlimited concert alerts and full access to the Tuniverse service.
Installing TuneUp is a breeze. After you’ve downloaded the program and dragged it to the Applications folder, TuneUp automatically opens iTunes and attaches itself to the right-hand side of the interface. From this new panel you can access five options for sorting and enhancing your iTunes library. The first, called Clean, analyses your music by listening to the audio fingerprint of each track and then comparing the results to the GraceNotes database of more than 90 million indexed songs.
It works really well, renaming any errant tracks and reorganising albums in the blink of an eye. The second option, Cover Art, automatically scans your music collection for missing album art and offers a variety of results for you to choose from. It’s a convenient alternative to searching the web for album art when iTunes can’t find any from the iTunes Store.
The third button is titled Tuniverse. This interesting feature scans any playing music tracks, then presents related music videos from YouTube, artist bios from Wikipedia, merchandise from eBay and song recommendations from Amazon. What’s surprising is how well this feature works. The constantly updating panel of information and media makes finding new content from your favourite band incredibly efficient, even more so than Ping. Tuniverse also includes a built-in Twitter feature that enables you to quickly tweet what track you’re listening too. Next to the Tuniverse button is a Concerts feature that quickly scans every album in your iTunes Library, then presents web-links to purchase tickets via Ticketmaster and Stubhub. We encountered an odd bug that resulted in no concert tickets appearing, but after a few days’ use the feature suddenly kicked in and began to show a selection of events that could be attended.
Oddly enough, however, ticket prices were in Dollars and went up in price when we clicked through the link to the Ticketmaster website. The final button, Share, is aimed squarely at social networking fans. When clicked it displays the latest albums and tracks that you’ve played and enables you to quickly share these results with friends on Facebook. We can’t possibly imagine that our friends would be interested in seeing what music we listen to during the day, but if you’re supporting an up-and-coming band then this feature might potentially come to good use.
If we have a niggling issue with TuneUp, it’s that the program auto-runs every time iTunes is opened. Admittedly it’s possible to turn this feature off from the Preferences panel, but for a program that you’re unlikely to use on a regular basis, we’d prefer auto-run to be disabled by default. It can also take a large amount of time for TuneUp to scan massive music collections when looking for errant tracks and missing cover art. TuneUp is a great addition to iTunes, with a handful of really handy features that enhance your music playing and sharing experience. It’s ability to tidy an iTunes Library is incredibly useful for anyone who has amassed music over a long period of time. Tags:,.
The Easy to Use, Advanced DJ Music Mixer! Ever wished you could be the DJ of a friend or family member’s party? Make those dreams come true with MegaSeg DJ. Seriously, instead of limiting yourself to party music on your iPod with awkward gaps or abrupt cuts between tracks, now you can seamlessly mix, beat match, and preview songs right from your entire library to create a FUN party experience for everyone.
This simple software will turn any aspiring DJ into the one running the show! MegaSeg DJ offers all the core mixing features you need plus lots of extras. It combines fast access and elegant management of any media library, including iTunes playlists, with features designed for party, club, and mobile DJs.
Credibility Stamps “MegaSeg is simplicity in form and function. Its main interface is uncomplicated and intuitive the features in MegaSeg make this software singa great buy.” – MacDirectory “MegaSeg is a well‐designed, stable application that has flourished with maturity. For the majority of users, MegaSeg offers almost everything they could need.” – MacUser “What a great product! Meet Tracks, A Powerful Application That Allows You To Play & Browse iTunes Music Right From Your Menubar! Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to play all of your iTunes music collection right from your menubar? Let alone be able to browse and listen to new music as the adventurer in you looks to hunt down new tracks? Well lucky you because Tracks is your solution.
It’s an intuitive and powerful Mac application that embraces the ease of use of your Mac and integrates itself into the foundation of your machine to provide a seamless musical experience. Your iTunes has patiently been waiting for an application like this and now the time has comefor you and your iTunes to start a more enjoyable musical experience right on your Mac. Think of it aspeanut butter and jelly.
The two are just so much better together. Top Features Live Search Tracks lives in the menubar and is available at all times. Browsing your iTunes library is as easy as opening the Tracks bar and typing a few characters. Search the Web Extend your search to remote songs, play iTunes Music Store previews or buy songs instantly. Global Shortcuts Define global shortcuts to access the Search bar, your music library and the Music Store anytime. Last.fm Tracks can automatically integrate with Last.fm and scrobble songs as you play them.
Alerts Tracks can automatically notify you of the currently playing song using Growl alerts. With Tracks, the music is all yours with just the click of a button. System Requirements.
Mac OS X 10.6 or greater Languages. English. Securely Backup 50GB Worth of Your Music Collection Right in The Cloud. Have too much music and don’t know what to do with it?
Now you can store up to 50GB of your Music collection for one year right in a secure online backup application so you can share, access, and maintain all of your jams right in one place. SOS Online Backup for Home Office is an award winning automatic backup web application for up to five PCs, Macs, Androids and iPhones/iPads. PC Magazine Editors’ Choice for 4 Years Straight! SOS Online Backup has been voted PC Magazine Editors’ Choice four years in a row. Superior security and ease of use makes SOS an ideal solution for home, home office, and business online backup. The Word On The Street “SOS Online Backup may be the very best way to protect your precious personal data, storing secure versions offsite.
Now it’s faster than the competition, and Facebook backup and good iPhone and Android apps are worthy plusses.” – Michael Muchmore, Lead Software Analyst PC Magazine “SOS gives me peace of mind. With my family’s data backed up automatically offsite, I never have to think about backup. And I never worry about losing precious files.” – A. Sharpe Top Features. Smart file selection wizard automatically figures out which files on your computer need to be backed up.
Files are kept forever (even accidentally deleted ones) – so you can always recover before you have a problem. Every past version of every file is kept – we only count latest version though!. You can share files with friends & family directly from your cloud. Access your cloud anywhere, anytime. Optional UltraSafe protection makes data accessible ONLY to the account-owner. System Requirements. Online connection is needed and you can perform complete and secure online backup and recovery for files on any PC or Mac.
What You Get. An annual home office plan which gives you 1 year of 50GB storage. Once your year of use is up then you’ll have to renew your subscription to continue using the service. Produce & Share Music With The T-Pain Engine.
Music-makers, start your T-Pain engines! This self-contained beat-making and vocal recording application powers you through from start to finish, even if you’re brand new to music production. New to making music? In a matter of minutes, The T-Pain Engine will have you arranging beats, recording vocals, and posting your tracks online. More experienced?
The T-Pain Engine is the perfect musical sketchpad for getting your creative juices flowing. Look Under The Hood Top Features Make Beats Choose from dozens of killer beats or customize your own. Record Vocals Sing or rap, then add the official T-Pain Effect. Share Post songs for all to hear, straight to the web via SoundCloud. Minimum Audio Equipment Requirements.
Microphone input & audio output. Microphone. Speakers System Requirements. Windows (XP, x64, Vista, 7). Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later. Intel-based Macs only Languages.
English. The Official Windows Media Player on the Mac. Ever wished you could share media with all your family and friends that use PC and Mac? Convert and share movies with anyone working on Mac or Windows. With Flip4Mac you can create Windows Media easily right from your Mac using pre-configured settings. Convert Windows Media for iMovie, Final Cut Pro, iTunes, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, and more. Remove the demo watermark when using Windows Media content in PowerPoint, Keynote, QuickTime Player 7, Compressor, iMovie and Quick Look.
Plus you can create your own iPhone Ringtones and take advantage of all the Pro editing, conversion and playback features in the new Flip Player media player. Keep your iTunes Clean! Tired of scrolling through 200 songs titled “Track 1” while looking for that song someone gave you on a burned CD three years ago? Does it bother you that R. Kelly’s name doesn’t appear as the artist when “Ignition Remix” comes on? TuneUp Transforms Your Music Collection. TuneUp Media’s music clean up app hooks up with iTunes to organize and categorize your music from top to bottom.
If you’ve read around you’ll find that this in the BEST iTunes companion app in the industry and that you’ll have your iTunes cleaned up in no time. TuneUp At Work Top TuneUp Features Clean Accurately fixes mislabeled or missing song information (like “Track 01” or “Unknown Artist”) using cutting-edge waveform recognition. Cover Art Scans your entire music collection in seconds and automagically™ fills in missing album artwork. DeDuper Intelligently finds and removes duplicate music files from your music library using waveform recognition.
Tuniverse Delivers music videos, artist bios, concert alerts, social network integration and more. New Feature Inside Tuniverse Lyrics: view lyrics to your favorite songs as they’re played in iTunes and Windows Media Player! This product works miracles when it comes to organizing your music librarybut don’t take our word for it. Rave Reviews “TuneUp is an awesome plug-in that hooks into an online database and analyzes your incorrect track titles and automatically renames them for you.” – WIRED “Quite possibly the most important piece of software any music lover can buy.” – UNCRATE “Does it work?
I had about a thousand songs with crazy titles. The system cleaned most of them up in about ten minutes.” – TechCrunch “Aside from its cool retro rocket-man logo, the service offers nothing short of a complete overhaul of your iTunes library.” – MTV This sale is for TuneUp, which gets you unlimited access to all of TuneUp’s features including: cleaning up incorrect song information, adding missing cover art, removing duplicate songs, and integrating real-time information like upcoming concerts, & links to music videos. System Requirements. Mac & PC Compatible. Mac: 64-bit Intel-based Mac running 10.6 or later (Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion). PC: Windows XP, Vista, 7, & 8 Lanuages. English, Spanish, German, French and Italian.
Can’t Hear The Sound Coming From Your Mac? Problem Solved. This sweet little Mac app packs a major punch and will 1) boost your volume and 2) equalize your Mac’s sound to enhance it’s sound. Using Boom is as Simple as Slicing Water. Boom seamlessly integrates itself with your Mac so all you have to do is adjust the volume as you wish. From the videos on YouTube, Hulu, your favorite music playing on iTunes, to voice applications like Skype, iChat and your favorite Games, Boom can boost them all. Add to that the ability to boost audio and video files and you have the ultimate SONIC boom for your Mac.
Watch & Listen The Sonic Boom Enhance Sound On All Your MacBooks Boom will improve the audio quality from the Mac’s built-in Stereo speakers on the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro with Retina-Display and the new iMac as well. System Requirements. Any Intel based Mac running OS X 10.6.6 or later Languages.
English, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish, German & French. Record Any Audio With This Simply Mac Application. Wish you could record audio whenever it touches those ears of yours? Now you can with Ondesoft’s Audio Recorder.
With this intuitive and powerful app you’ll be able to record voice or music directly from a microphone, CD player, line-in devices or sound being played by other applications and WebPages including Real player, iTunes,Youtube, Safari, Firefox, QuickTime, VLC, and more. Save your audio files so you can listen to them on any of your devices.
Recording files can be saved into popular formats such as MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, AC3, AU, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MATROSK and OGG. This Mac sound recorder can also extract music from movies. Top Features Recording Resources Record sound, voice, music or any other audio from audio devices including CD Line-in, Mic, Stereo Mix, Mono Mix and applications or web pages including Real player, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, QuickTime, VLC, and etc.
Ever want to be able to grab your favorite songs from websites like YouTube, Pandora, and LastFM? Recording Scheduler An advanced recording scheduler gives you the power to schedule recording by setting the start and end times. Hotkey Options Allow you to define hot keys for record, pause and stop recording. Output File Formats: Save recordings to your hard drive in popular MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, AC3, AU, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MATROSK and OGG format.
Real-Time Recoding With real time encoding data when recording, no temporary file created. Schedule Audio Recordings Four applications can be added at one time.
Setting advanced options, loading applications, recording and stopping recording can be achieved with just one click. Schedule recording by setting the start and end times. User-Friendly Interface Most functions can be called up with a simple mouse click or menu selection! System Requirements. Mac OS X 10.6 or above Languages. English.