Rinse My Music vs TuneUp Media - iTunes Cleanup Software Put To The Test

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To get things started and eventually crown the iTunes cleanup king I had to put both programs through an identical test. For each program, I used 500 of the same songs, all with missing or incorrect meta data and missing album art to push each program to their true limits.

Right from the get go I kept having trouble downloading Rinse trial version and once I finally got it downloaded and installed I ran into some compatibility issues. When I tried to start the program I kept receiving an error message and honestly I became quite frustrated when I couldn't figure out what to do.

For some reason the Rinse website doesn't have any information on the technical requirements for running the program which was kind of strange. Being the diligent guy that I am I kept digging until I figured out what the problem was. I was missing an adobe driver that is required to run Rinse. I actually managed to dig up a list of the system requirements for Rinse.

In order to run Tidysongs you must have the following software installed:

Adobe AIR 1.5.x
Adobe FLASH (not sure)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
iTunes

Once I finally got Rinse up and running I must say that I was not impressed. I was only able to cleanup about 75% of the 500 songs I threw at Rinse and I had quite the time doing it. The main problem with Rinse is the program uses your existing song information to find the correct information unlike its counterpart Tuneup.

This is where Tuneup by far out performs Rinse. The program uses patented Gracenote technology to scan the first few seconds of each one of your songs and matches the sound bite with their massive Gracenote database. The advantages of this technology are straight forward; your chances of finding a song are much more likely and the chances of that information being correct also becomes higher.

Rinse didn't do much better on the album art side of things either. As with the song data it only found about half of the album covers. Overall I was very disappointed with the performance of Rinse.

After what TidySongs(Rinse) put me through, I really wasn't expecting too much out of Tuneup. But right from the get go I was impressed with Tuneup's professional feel and look. The download process for Tuneup went incredibly smooth and I had the program up and running within a couple of minutes.

Tuneup's user interface is very clean and easy to navigate. You just drag and drop the songs you wish to clean into the "clean" tab watch Tuenup work it's magic. Each song will take about 2 seconds to clean and the program will give you the option to manually approve each song or set things to automatic.

When it comes to album art, Tuneup Media has definitely got you covered. With my test Tuneup managed to return 496 correct album covers of the 500 songs I attempted to clean. Not only did the program show incredible accuracy with this feature, but it gave me option of choosing from multiple album covers.

And the winner is...Tuneup Media. Tuneup is hands down the best tool for all of your iTunes management needs. The program simply out performed Rinse in all areas(song info, album art, functionality, etc.). As both paid programs you will also find the price of Tuneup to be substantially lower than Rinse My Music.

For $29.95 you can download a yearly subscription to Tuneup. When you compare Rinse's price of $39 there's just no contest. Lifetime access to Tuneup it is slightly more expensive than Rinse priced at $49.95. Keep in mind though, you can grab a Tuneup Media promo code for 15% off your copy of both the yearly and lifetime version. Just click through the link to find out how to collect your deal.

At this point I'm sure you can see who is the obvious winner. Without even going into Tuneup's additional features such as concert alerts, artist bios, FaceBook connect and a few others, Tuneup has taken the top spot as the Internet's #1 iTunes cleanup tool.

If you're skeptical than there's no need to take my word for it. Simply download a trial of Tuneup today. You can even download a the limited trial of Rinse and do the comparison like I did. But if you're going to take any of my advice than make sure you download Tuneup first, that way will save yourself the trouble of having to do it later.


Conclusion: Tuneup delivers in all areas and packs incredible cleanup power. Download the trial version today and find out for yourself.