POOCHY95 I initially posted this review on another, similar, site.
This App helps the process initially, but you really don't need this program after the first full use. Being that I had thousands of albums, and I was lazy and rolling in extra funds from white collar slavery, I bought v.2 of CoverScout, and have just demoed ver. 3, which the new features don't really speed things up compared to v. 2. Yes, it's only one click to bring you to a google image search with the album/artist name already entered, which v.2 helped when I had an enormous amount of albums to tag that weren't on iTunes, but after that initial process, it's mostly housekeeping. I never add more than 10 albums at a time nowadays, and you still have to manually search for these albums within CoverScout (unless they are the absolute only song/album/etc within your iTunes library which doesn't have a cover) before the program can do it's thing. This pretty much takes just as long as typing into a Google image search and then dragging and dropping in iTunes. Usually quicker, as CoverScout often doesn't find quality covers automatically after you wait for all of it's results to come through, making you then utilize it's built-in browser, all after you launched the program which is a resource hog and has to load all of your iTunes current album covers. Also, it often freezes on my 9 mo old MBPro 10.5.5 4gb ram. This goes also for my demoing of version 3. I wish I could have bought a 1 day license to use.
But here is where I don't understand Equinux's logic:
I initially was torn to spend $20 for my individual library needs. Now they are charging all CURRENT users $30 to UPGRADE to ver. 3. Wouldn't logic tell them that current users are going to be more put off by paying more than they already paid initially to upgrade, PLUS the fact that the majority of the use they would get out of CoverScout is simple housekeeping, which is usually quicker to do manually? They REALLY don't know how to incentivize their upgrades. Equivnux DOES do a good job at losing the collective profits they could have made by making the upgrade much cheaper, which would be the only way to entice the majority of users that have very few reasons to upgrade or even still use the program. I wish these people would have taken economics, psychology, and/or business classes at some point in their lives.
(Version 3.0.1)
