Tune Finder 2 Keeps You up to Date with Your Favorite Artists
By: Joel Klassen
Keeping up to date with your artists in your iTunes library is a hard task. If you have a large music library, like myself, finding out when the next album by your favorite band comes out is sometimes impossible. Knowing what albums you’re missing from your collection can also be a difficult task. Searching on Google or on the iTunes store does work however, if you have 500 artists or so, it’s going to take way too much time. I only have time to search up my favorite bands like The Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. I mean… *Coughs.* Anyways, I have a possible solution for you which comes in the form of an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Tune Finder 2 (free) by Opsive scans your iTunes library on your iDevice and lets you know what albums and songs you are missing for each artist or select artists of your choice. Along with showing each album and the songs within them, you can play 30-second previews or follow the link to iTunes to make a purchase. This can all be done over Wi-Fi or 3G but obviously the former will be faster. You have the options to show only the artists you want and on/off switches for showing album singles and explicit albums.
Before any of this, you need Tune Finder to scan your iPod which takes some time if you have many artists. Each artist can take anywhere between four and thirty seconds depending on the amount of content that artist has. This means that you’ll have to let the app run for a while, and unfortunately, at this stage the app does not run in the background (at least not on my attempt) which means your phone will be held up for around two hours depending on the amount of artists you have. You are able to skip the artists you don’t want scanned and plugging in your phone speeds it up but it still felt like a long slow process which questioned the usability of the app. Already, the app has been improved a few times and I trust the developer is working to make this faster.
It would be nice if the app could automatically inform you when a new album is out from one of your artists. It could use push notifications and you could have the option of choosing only a few artists to get these notifications. Also, it could connect to your home iTunes library computer via Wi-Fi and scan that collection as well.
The app is a fairly solid one with well designed graphics and a good user-friendly interface however, the slow speed of the app scanning your music library drops the rating. Also, there could be some major updates which would improve the app greatly. Get this app if you want to stay up to date with your music library but only if you have the time to sit through the scanning process.
Our Rating: 3/5
Developer: Opsive
