We’ve been working on something super cool, wicked rad, and wonderfully funny. But we can’t quite tell you about it yet. So instead, we will give you this lovely image to ponder the greatness of life and get excited for what’s to come!
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Top Secret Stuff…
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New Music … and Contest!
Here’s some awesome new tunes we’ve been blasting in the office and we recommend you check out:
- Julian Casablancas-
the Strokes frontman has a new record out called “Phrazes For the Young” which, he said he did to keep from getting bored. Well, for whatever reason, we like it. It’s got a hint of the Stroke-esque dirty rock, but with a mellow vibe that works to his favor. Mr. Casablancas moved to California, and you can tell. - The xx -
this London quartet is stark and hypnotic indie dance rock. The guy/girl vocals and soft/hard percussion make for some very cool and subdued tracks. It’s ike having a rave in an abandoned hospital (which, yes, sounds awesome to us). - The New Moon Soundtrack-
Look, don’t kill us… but yes, this is a pretty solid album. From the likes of Thom Yorke & Death Cab for Cutie to the pairing of St. Vincent and Bon Iver, there are some rad tracks in this tween cinematic fantasy. We know everyone is on Vampire over-kill, but check out this soundtrack, it might change your mind - but probably not. - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes-
their debut album “Up From Below” has been out awhile now (summer ‘09) but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t recommend these tracks, because it makes you feel like it’s sunny again. This optimistic collective claps out some rad folk-rock that makes any bad day feel kinda like a blip in the scheme of life.
Be sure to click on the picture and listen to some tracks online. You got some new music? Let us know… in fact, let’s make this interesting - tweet us some new music that you love & that we should hear - or post it up under our Facebook Discussion Board. We want to hear what you’ve been listening to! Whoever posts up the best new stuff wins some awesome prizes (and of course, a TuneUp shirt!). Submit by Friday. ::rock on::
TuneUp Tip #4: Methods For Cleaning
Everyone has their own way of organizing their music, and TuneUp users especially take great care in the accuracy and fullness of an iTunes library. So, with that said, here are some helpful ways to manage the TuneUp cleaning process… try them out for yourself and see if it helps you TuneUp your music even better than before:
It’s a waste of time (and TuneUp!) to do songs one by one. We recommend up to 500 - and preferably of the same artist or album as that tends to get better Matching results. TuneUp can handle more than 500 tracks, in fact, users have reported throwing in their entire collection, but it just really depends on how well your machine can handle the load! In those cases though, it’s best to go take a walk, or head over to your local record store for a bit and then come back to check out the progress.
If you ran through Analyze (that tiny brain icon in the top right corner) and got all depressed seeing just how incomplete and dirty your library truly is, then you are going to want to start cleaning ASAP. Obviously, the dirtiest tracks are the ones with no information at all. This is most common when there is no artist listed. The best way to find these big holes in your library is to go to your iTunes interface and click on the ‘Artist’ column. This will make iTunes alphabetize your artists A - Z (or Z - A). Scroll to the bottom (towards the Zs), and you will see that if iTunes has no info in artist, it will be added to the end. This way, you can assemble all the tracks without artists easily to drop into Clean!
The best way to make sure that we found the right data for a specific song is to use the playback feature in Clean. Once TuneUp has Matches, you can click the gray arrow (on the left of the Artist name) which will provide a drop-down track listing of all of the songs on that specific album. If you aren’t sure about a single track, simply click the black arrow (on the far right of the drop-down listing). Listen through it to see if that’s it!Let us know how YOU like to Clean!
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Tuniversity: Campus Rep Program
That’s right kids, we just launched our Campus Representative Program! The idea, basically, is that college students can make some money on the side selling TuneUp to their peers. It’s super easy and there is some serious potential to make good money. Might as well get paid to recommend TuneUp, right?
We are very selective about the people we select for the Program. We want only the best to spread the word about TuneUp! So, if you think you have what it takes then check out more details and get started today!
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CONTEST: Best Album Art?
Time again to give out some sweet shwag. This time, it’s easy. All you got to do is let us know what your all-time-favorite cover art is. Hilarious, creative, iconic… whatever.
Select your best choice of musical artwork and link it up on our Facebook page. Best pick wins a grab-bag of choice TuneUp-related gear (including some EcoSpeakers!)
You have til the end of Friday (October 16th)…. GO!