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TuneSpan allows you to truly manage the media files in your iTunes library, giving you the ability to effortlessly move them to wherever you choose (an external drive of any kind, even a network drive) and easily keep track of all locations.
TuneSpan uses the term "span" to describe moving your media files; you can have your files spanned across many different drives without any confusion.
TuneSpan never removes any of your tracks from iTunes, so your playlists, play counts, etc. are always preserved.
TuneSpan makes copies of your media files at the
TuneSpan uses the term "span" to describe moving your media files; you can have your files spanned across many different drives without any confusion.
TuneSpan never removes any of your tracks from iTunes, so your playlists, play counts, etc. are always preserved.
TuneSpan makes copies of your media files at the
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Version 0.9.6: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later iTunes 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later iTunes 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:4,906 |
| Version Downloads:68 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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TuneSpan allows you to truly manage the media files in your iTunes library, giving you the ability to effortlessly move them to wherever you choose (an external drive of any kind, even a network drive) and easily keep track of all locations.
TuneSpan uses the term "span" to describe moving your media files; you can have your files spanned across many different drives without any confusion.
TuneSpan never removes any of your tracks from iTunes, so your playlists, play counts, etc. are always preserved.
TuneSpan makes copies of your media files at the selected location; none of your media files are ever removed. And, TuneSpan can clean up after itself: After tracks have been successfully spanned, TuneSpan can move the original files to the trash, and even check for empty folders and move those to the trash as well to help keep your system tidy.
TuneSpan's interface provides the ability to quickly see where your media files are, and easily restore them to their original location, or even move them around again.
Not only does TuneSpan provide the ability to easily move your media files around, but it also allows you to browse your iTunes library in much more comprehensive and sophisticated ways.
First and foremost, TuneSpan has a location browser, so you can see where your media files are located. TuneSpan also provides more advanced filtering options than iTunes. For example, if you select a media type, the rest of the interface will update to only show playlists which contain that media type and only show locations with files of that media type. Moreover, filters can be combined to narrow what you see in the interface, with a media type selected; you can then select a playlist and the locations will be updated to only show files for tracks of the selected media type in the selected playlist. In the toolbar, you can quickly see what filters are active, and click to bring up a menu to easily modify or clear your active filters. TuneSpan provides primarily a drag-and-drop interface, but can also be fully controlled by the keyboard, and contains many contextual menus to provide advanced functionality and usability.
For more information, check out TuneSpan Help.
TuneSpan uses the term "span" to describe moving your media files; you can have your files spanned across many different drives without any confusion.
TuneSpan never removes any of your tracks from iTunes, so your playlists, play counts, etc. are always preserved.
TuneSpan makes copies of your media files at the selected location; none of your media files are ever removed. And, TuneSpan can clean up after itself: After tracks have been successfully spanned, TuneSpan can move the original files to the trash, and even check for empty folders and move those to the trash as well to help keep your system tidy.
TuneSpan's interface provides the ability to quickly see where your media files are, and easily restore them to their original location, or even move them around again.
Not only does TuneSpan provide the ability to easily move your media files around, but it also allows you to browse your iTunes library in much more comprehensive and sophisticated ways.
First and foremost, TuneSpan has a location browser, so you can see where your media files are located. TuneSpan also provides more advanced filtering options than iTunes. For example, if you select a media type, the rest of the interface will update to only show playlists which contain that media type and only show locations with files of that media type. Moreover, filters can be combined to narrow what you see in the interface, with a media type selected; you can then select a playlist and the locations will be updated to only show files for tracks of the selected media type in the selected playlist. In the toolbar, you can quickly see what filters are active, and click to bring up a menu to easily modify or clear your active filters. TuneSpan provides primarily a drag-and-drop interface, but can also be fully controlled by the keyboard, and contains many contextual menus to provide advanced functionality and usability.
For more information, check out TuneSpan Help.
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Old_guy reviewed on 20 Jan 2012
Great UI with some nice twists.
Certainly a app to watch for.
The question of the day: will it be free on v1 release?
...About the price, I am not totally positive what will happen when TuneSpan gets to 1.0 yet, but I can talk about what I have been thinking.
I have been thinking it would be nice to get TuneSpan on the Mac App Store, and sell it for no more than $9.99. But also, I have been taking donations, I would not want to rip those people off, so I hope to be able to give donors free licenses. But, I know I will run into some hurdles there since Apple limits the amount of promo codes that a developer can give out per version. Anyway, that all is on my mind.
About getting TuneSpan on the Mac App Store, there are a lot of barriers with Apples new Sandboxing policy, I believe I should be able to get TuneSpan approved for the Mac App Store, but it will need a few temporary sandboxing entitlements to make it function at all. I am just not sure how wise it would be to sell it through the Mac App Store, knowing that Apple could pull the rug out from under it at any time, leaving the customers in the worst position. But, for me, the Mac App Store would be the most convenient way to distribute TuneSpan, so it is something that I am going to be continually looking into.
Honestly, in the beginning of working on this project, I loved the idea of it being free forever. But, as I get a bit older, it would be really nice to be able to make some money off of this app that I've put some much love and time into. I still wouldn't want to charge more than $10 for it, but I think it would be in my best interest, and TuneSpan's best interest, to try to figure out how to get some income from it.
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Noivad reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
As you probably know iTunes is very inflexible as far as being able to split your media collection and put them in more than one huge directory or even move them from one drive to another without breaking all the links. iTunes is also not smart enough to relink files from the same album after you've located the first one. TuneSpan saves you from this grief and trouble. I wish this application existed years ago, as it would have saved me tens of man hours reorganizing my collection.
Add to that, TuneSpan is donation-ware and you've got something truly worthy of your donation. You have nothing to lose, just read the manual to understand what it does before you click "Sapn..." the first time. (But there is a handy undo ability too.)
There is room for improvement though, thus the 4 stars. I sent an email to the developer suggesting features that i'd would like to see this past weekend, but have yet to get a reply. A few are very simple and one is very complicated and might be out of scope of the goal of this program. Considering that this app isn't even at 1.0 status, I think it has a lot of great potential to really allow power users to control their media and organize it they way they want it to.
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Cmacuser reviewed on 14 Jan 2011