If you are an iTunes user, there is every possibility that you are having problems with your music collection. These could range anywhere from missing or incorrect song information, no album artwork, to a quite a few number of duplicate or multiple songs. There is no need to worry since these problems are faced by almost every iTunes user. This is exactly why clean up softwares are so popular with music enthusiasts.

When you download music from the internet from unreliable websites, the song information coming with these tracks is either missing or in\correct. This results in a complete mess-up of your library since do not know where you can find one of your favorite songs. Moreover, when you play these songs on you iPod, most of the time, you can only see a gray space when you run you run in Cover flow mode. This happens because your music has no album artwork.

These days, there are two main applications available on the Internet that can be used as cleanup programs. Both of these programs have their advantages and drawbacks. The question for you is very simple. Tuneup vs Rinse(Rinse My Music once know as Tidysongs)

Which one should you choose?

Before jumping to any conclusions, let us examine the facts and see what features each of these programs has to offer:

Features available with TuneUp Media

*Song cleanup
*Album Artwork Finder
*Concerts updates
*Artist information from youtube and wikipedia
*Facebook share feature

The price of TuneUp Media is $39.95 for a year and $49.95 for lifetime.

Features available with Rinse

*Removing Duplicates
*Cleaning up of library
*Finding and linking album artwork
*Providing proper genres for your songs.

The price is just $39, payable once at download.


Rinse vs TuneUp Media

We can see that both the applications offer almost similar features with minimal price variation.

Though TuneUp provide a few more additional features, they have got nothing to do with the proper organization of your iTunes library. Whereas Rinse is tailor made for providing you with the problems you face with your music. If you try both programs you will also see a remarkable difference in the way RinseMyMusic work. It is highly effective and very efficient. Above all, it needs the least amount of your interaction because most of the work is done automatically.

TidySongs(Rinse) can not only remove all your duplicate songs with remarkable ease, it can also provide genres for all your songs which helping keeping your songs organized and manageable. Once your songs are properly tagged, you will find it much easier to locate and listen to any song at any given time.

Another feature of Rinse is that it is compatible only with iTunes which renders it tailor-made for using with iPods.

Let’s leave it at that. Both of these software applications provide free trial versions. You can download both of them and make test runs. This way, you will be able to judge for yourself which of the above two applications is more suitable for you.

Use the links below to grab your free trial offer of each program…