BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart (a/o February 10th):
1. “What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger),” Kelly Clarkson
2. “Set Fire to the Rain,” Adele
3. “Turn Me On,” David Guetta
4. “Rack City,” TYGA
5. “Good Feeling,” Flo Rida
6. “Smooth Criminal (Glee Cast Version),” Glee Cast
7. “Young, Wild & Free,” Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa
8. “Domino ,” Jessie J
9. “Sexy and I Know It,” LMFAO
10. “Ass Back Home ,” Gym Class Heroes
The modern-day music fan has thousands of songs, total portability, and instant access to a catalog of millions. But one thing many fans lack is a neatly-organized iTunes collection, thanks to an epidemic of mislabeled, unlabeled, or partially-identified files.
Those buying music or ripping CDs usually have neater-looking collections, though file-sharing produces some ugly metadata. That includes files carrying labels like "Track01," misspelled artist and song names, and a raft of other improprieties. The source of the sloppiness comes from a super-distributed web, one that breeds total anarchy when it comes to naming conventions.
Addressing the issue is San Francisco-based TuneUp (tuneupmedia.com), a company that published a tidying iTunes plug-in this week. Cleanup duty includes fixing incomplete or missing song and artist information, and finding missing album art. Under the hood, the company taps identification technology from Gracenote to match audio fingerprints with song information.
TuneUp is free for the first 500 cleanups, and $19.95 for unlimited usage. A yearly plan is also available for $11.95. Currently, TuneUp is only available for PCs.
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