TuneUp Tip #3: Setting Genre Preferences

Yup, it’s another installment of those ever-so-helpful TuneUp Tips!

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This time – we’re looking at GENRES! If you check out Preferences (either by right-clicking within the app on a Mac, or right-clicking on the TuneUp icon in the system tray for PC) you will find multiple customization options for the way TuneUp saves information, including genre-tagging specifications. If you do not want TuneUp to save any of the genre data we find within our database then simply uncheck the box “Genres” under “Save Metadata Defaults” section which is in the “Clean” tab of Preferences.

There is also a cool functionality that allows you to filter down the number of different genres that TuneUp tags for. There are currently 3 Genre Levels. Level 1 is the smallest with 20 Genres, Level 2 is 250 Genres, and Level 3 is the max with 764 Genres.

For an example of some of the genre options you can see a list within iTunes by going to ‘File’ > ‘Get Info’ > select ‘Info’ tab > and scroll through the ‘Genre’ options. These are tags that iTunes already has stored for your genres already. The higher the level, the more detailed your genres will become once TuneUp cleans them. Of course, you can always option out of setting genres all together, or simply enter them in yourself.

Remember to SAVE all changes you make within Preferences so TuneUp can clean up the way you want!

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3 Comments

  1. vinny
    Posted March 9, 2011 at 12:10 pm | Permalink

    What genre’s are in level 1?

  2. Mathew
    Posted October 3, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    Unfortunately they dont care about users so i had to find it out on my own.
    And somehow thats 21 in Level 1, (i can proof by posting one song from each category)

    Level 1 (21)=

    Alternative
    Blues
    Childrens
    Comedy, Spoken & Other
    Country and Western
    Clasical
    Dance & House
    Electronica
    Gospel & Christian
    New Age
    Pop
    Punk
    Rap/HipHop
    Reggae
    Soul/R&B
    Soundtrack
    Traditional Pop
    Folk
    Indie
    Metal
    World

    Level 2 (250)

    Goes on like
    Folk
    Folk Rok
    Folk Metal

    Other
    Other 50´s
    Other Blues

    Level 3
    no idea

    Feedback to you and please read that beacause i payed for your service:
    Show Details about the single Genre types!!!!
    Also make it choice able to select wich Genre you want to go more specific. Like i like techno quit much but only Electronica is just weak. I need seperations about Techno-Jumpstyle, Techno-Hardstyle, Techno-House…. Thanks

    • Jill
      Posted October 5, 2011 at 11:56 am | Permalink

      Hi Mathew – we’re sorry you feel that way about the genre settings, but we do appreciate your feedback. We take user suggestions seriously and we’ll pass this information along to our Developers. Thank you!

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