Tune Sweeper App Reviews

It works as advertised, however it took around 10-12 hours to sort through my itunes and delete the duplicates. I bought this to try and save time by not having to doing it manually. If your library isnt huge (60,000+ songs) Id say save your 20.00 and do it manually. You would be done before this program would be...

this program is simple and straightforward, it does hours worth of work in seconds.

I have a huge...er had a huge MP3 library.......Went through my library and cleaned out 97,000 duplicate tracks......Now my library is ~ 150,000. Took a few days to work - but it got it done!!

I had 12K plus duplicates after moving an itunes library several times. Tune Sweeper cleaned it all up and saved me hours of time; maybe days.

I have what I think is a pretty large iTunes Library… 50k songs (350 Gig). It used to be much bigger. Upon merging libraries from 2 computers onto my new mac mini server. I noticed that somehow i messed up and had a period of time that overlapped causing an incredible amount of duplicates. I also have a tremendous Phish library so seeing 50 versions of "Down With Disease" is pretty common. Long story short, I wanted a tool that would work within iTunes (to avoid "lost files") and something that could de-dupe with precision. I ran this program before buying it, and based on the selectable criteria… I was able to find over 5000 "sets" of duplication that met Artist, Track Name, Album, Track # and Track Length requirements. It took about a half hour to find them and an hour to clean. It even allows you to back up. I estimate it deleted over 10k duplicate tracks, and so far I am very happy with the results. I felt like this utility was a little over priced, but I woulda easily paid someone 19.99 to sit there and do it for me, this was much faster and less error prone. If you have a quick machine, it shouldnt take long. I am recommending this program to my friend (who has the same issue) tomorrow. thanks guys!

It worked as i expected. You can narrow down the search criteria. Did it in several minutes. Have about 10k songs.

This program is helpful for 1.5 of its 3 functions. First, what it does right: As far as I can tell, it removes items in the iTunes library that are missing correctly. I doubt if it looks for the underlying file so you probably have items that aren’t REALLY missing that it removes but whatever. We’ll say +1 on that. What it does wrong: When consolidating all files in to iTunes (add items not in the iTunes library in to the iTunes library) it really screws it up. Yes, your files are added to the library. But what about metadata? It keeps most of it (yay!) but not the name of the song. The name of the song is replaced with the filename of the song (including .mp3!). So, your iTunes library will go from “Staying Alive” —> “01 Staying Alive.mp3”. This is clearly a bug and causes a big, cascading headache. First of all, what are you supposed to do to fix this? You’ve just made your iTunes library grow and now you have a ton of messed up file names!?! +0 Although the dupe function works, it relies on the new (now messed-up) file name. In the above example, if my library now had both a “Staying Alive” and a “01 Staying Alive.mp3”, the program wouldn’t recognize the dupe, even if all other underlying characteristics are the same (album, time, etc.). That stinks. +.5 I’ve heard mixed reviews about TuneUp Media but now I have to buy it to fix all the song name metadata. What a hassle.

Always getting new music from friends, Over 17,000 songs and Tune Sweeper works fast and easy to use.

this ap is great. cleans your library like right now. all those accidental duplicates are GONE. I picked up 5 gigs on the first sweep. Nice

It does not do much for the price. It did work, but did not do much

Worked ok on the first pass. The second time tried to use it, it will not finish reading the iTunes library — just keeps girding. So I fear that when it deleted duplicates it also corrupted the library. That’s not good ...

Tunes Sweeper identified over 30K duplicates in iTunes. I carefully reviewed to make sure the selections were legit; I was impressed. It took about 15 hours to actually delete the files, but I didn’t mind, since doing it manually would have taken me at least 15 days! However, the deletinion also wiped the mapping, so that about 75% of them “cannot be found”. I’ve tried selecting the drive in iTunes’ preferences, etc. No luck. What’s frustrating is that I cannot select through Tunes Sweeper the drive holding my music and video files. I currently have a request into the Wide Angle Software for assistance. No luck. If I receive help, I’ll be sure to post an update. (If you have your library on an external HD, beware.)

If you have a large music library like I do, this app is perfect for detecting duplicates, removing the file of lesser quality, all while maintaining the original file in order to secure your music. I tried using a regular duplicate file finder, and even after going through each file meticulously, I still ended up erasing many files and had to reload iTunes….an entire weekend of “housekeeping” my music. I am pleased to say that TuneSweeper not only worked without flaw, but was able to erase multiples without losing the core file. My music is now nice and organized with no stray files, no duplicates and all core files in tact. After having my first “ooops”, TuneSweeper is my new best friend. Don’t use just a regular dulplicate finder…you will regret it. TuneSweeper allows you to set perimeters in order to assure original files stay put. I highly recommend this app for all who have a large music library or even those who want to organize iTunes. From a music lover with OCD (haha)…THANK YOU!!

I had about 24,000 plus songs and when I started the cleaning process at around 4:00am it finished about 11:00am. It did an excelent job it did miss a few but that seams to have been atributed to them being on an extended HD where it say was read only. And the other cool thing is it lets you know if its in the cloud or not. Now I tryed other apps like Dupe Away and this one caught about 1200 more songs than Dupe Away so I would say Tune Sweeper is a better app! So my advice is its worth every penny. Ps: One request for developers is that they give a little more control over search peramiters like Dupe Away does and it would be nice if you could select more than one search peramiter at a time.

The GUI of Tune Sweeper keeps freezing now that I’m running OS X Yosemite Beta. Maybe Yosemite Beta is the issue. I’m not sure. But I have to resize the window to get it to refresh. Not a big deal but not smooth either. When I first used Tune Sweeper a year ago I noticed a glitch on the dupe count. In that case I ran it once, deleted dupes and saw a pop up advising there were X duplicates still not deleted. I think that was an erroneous message though. All the duplicates that I had manually seen in itunes were gone once I clicked the delete duplicate button within Tune Sweeper, regardless of what the pop up advised. Which is great! So it does what it’s supposed to do well. Even though it’s reporting and screen refreshing seems a bit slow/wrong.

I have been adding to my digital music library for the last 10+ years and had never really taken the time to organize it. I recently upgraded to an SSD hard drive and wanted to make sure that I wasn’t wasting space, so with the daunting task of sorting through my music library staring me in the face, I purchased this app, hoping it would at least help in the clean-up process. After running the app, I was nothing short of amazed. It did EXACTLY what it claims to do. What was going to end up being a weekend-long project, ended up taking less than an hour. Worth every penny!

I am asking Itunes for a refund for this product. If you use Itunes match or have ANYTHING in the cloud it wont work. You have to download everything for the match to run. I have asked for help repeatedly and there is no response. Bottom line - it is easier to manually fix our itunes than to run this product.

This app does exactly what Itunes is missing: clean up dead files in the library identify which music is in the computer and NOT in Itunes (you can select what to do then) remove duplicates I also used Tune Up which messed up my library hopelessly redoing metadata which was perfectly fine and NOT identifying missing files!

I made a huge mistake while moving my entire iTunes library to an external drive. I read Apple’s instructions on removing duplicates, but with the amount of tunes I had duped, I would be lucky if I finished by Christmas. This amazing App did just as advertised, and took care of my issues in less than 30 minutes. Money well spent, and a life boat if I ever get in that situation again.

This has been a looming multiple year project to clean out some of my music library (specifically doubles). This took 10 minutes max. It’s an expensive program (hence the 4 star rating), but is worth the cost!