Rinse Vs Tuneup – Rinse My Music And Tuneup Media Compared

Okay, let the battle begin. The titans of the industry the iTunes organizing industry, that is. Rinse vs Tuneup (or Rinse My Music versus Tuneup Media). If you dont know anything about iTunes cleaning programs, then youre about to get a crash course (pun intended) on them.

These programs can work wonders for your iTunes collection, especially if you have a lot of music on your computer. Most of us gather songs through the years from a variety of different sites, including online stores, file sharing sites, and from friends who send them to us via email.

At some point, youll end up with duplicates, bad copies, and a whole mess of songs that dont have the right titles, are missing artist information, and other aspects like cover art.

These programs were designed to clean up all of that, so which one is better?

Features

Both of these iTunes add-ons offer a lot of the same features, such as

Finding duplicate songs and getting rid of those
Finding missing information about the title, artist, genre, and other points about each song and filling them in
Finding cover art (or album artwork) and adding them to your collection

So how does each one stack up with regard to these features? For starters, it is obvious that the makers of Rinse My Music took more time to refine these defining features with the program and they actually seem to run better and more effectively.

For instance, when Rinse My Music ran the program to locate and remove all of the duplicate songs in the collection, it nailed every single one without an error. Tuneup Media, on the other hand, missed a few files as they were titled differently (misspellings) and didnt actually remove them.

I know some people are concerned that these programs might actually delete the wrong files, such as similar songs (or the same songs) but with different mixes, but they both handle these situations quite well. To be more precise, when these programs look for duplicate files, they look for the title and the length and size of the file as well, so anything that is identical, they know its the same version and not some remix.

As for filling in missing information, Tuneup Media performed just as well as Rinse My Music, which is to say that they are both winners.

The Key Difference

Now, the key difference in the Rinse vs Tuneup battle is the price. While some people will look at the price and decide that Tuneup is the winner because it comes in about ten dollars cheaper, theres more to this story than meets the eye. In fact, with Rinse My Music, you get the copy permanently to use whenever you need it. With Tuneup Media, its a year membership. So, if you get Tuneup, youre going to pay the same price every year.

So, when it comes to a head to head battle, the winner is obvious and its Rinse My Music (rinsemymusic.com).