Bought this program as a lifetime buy. Paid a premium for it. Now I find that the verification process is complex leading me to believe they want to close the door on their customers who made the mistake of buying a lifetime license. I have an activation code which should just work but does not. There are a number of hoops you have to jump through to get to the promised land. I do NOT recommend this program. I feel like I have been ripped off.

In theory this would be good but in practice...

I let it have a go at my well organised and annotated CD RIPS and discovered on one CD of Cecilia Bartoli her name was misspelt 3 different ways, composer names are randomly inserted in track names. In some cases composers are in Artist (how obviously wrong) and names are randomly abbreviated, surname first or last.

So far from "tidying up" my collection, it trashed it.

They mean well but it is a case of garbage in, grabage out when they source their information from the repositories.

I want to comment first on their license policy. Here is it copy/pasted from http://support.tuneupmedia.com/entries/269240-what-is-the-licensing-policy

"Your TuneUp activation code is licensed for the lifetime of the initial machine it is installed on. Each purchased activation code comes with a one time transfer to a new machine of your choice. Simply re-enter your activation code on your new machine. "

So even though I bought the lifetime Gold level I'm screwed when I want to move this to beyond a 2nd new Mac. When (if) Apple ships a new Mac Pro I'll be jumping on it and TuneUp will have to be relicensed.

THat said: how can they sell it for $40 on the App Store: don't all App Store apps include up to 5 simultaneous installs on 5 computers???

Now the app itself is a dog. I have over 400,000 items in iTunes and when I use TuneUp I launch it and have to walk away for over an hour before it is ready. When picking tracks to clean it typically fails, perhaps because much of my music is older classical or blues/jazz music. Really makes a mess but at least it lets me confirm suggestions manually.

And as others note it crashes / hangs frequently.

I do not recommend this at all. There are other apps which do not tax the CPU loading ever track - one can create a playlist to check for example.

Avoid this...

I've never had an application crash and hang as often as TuneUp does, this application promises much but in reality is a total POS.

Very very bad app. I paid $40 for this rubbish. I know its a powerful app with some cool features, like auto cleaning albums, auto matching the covers of albums etc... But the app is very hard to use! it started with iTunes and cannot be separated from iTunes. you will tolerate the endless waiting and crazy hot cpu while the app doing its job. you have to reopen it again and again as it always crash, and you need to activate it again and again as it forget your activation code so quickly.

With the new releases of iTunes 10.2, cover art is no longer being applied to library.