Comments on: 5 Easy Ways to Clean up Your Music Collection

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:10:48 +0000

You have to clean up 500 songs at a time for optimum speed..

By: JBisset

JBisset — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:53:51 +0000

TuneUp – I just bought this to cleanup my 15,000 song library. It sucks! Very slow. Complex. Not well integrated with iTunes. I’d recommend avoiding it!

By: The one who finds it

The one who finds it — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:06:31 +0000

yo this is all good and everything but use tune-up companion. it works with itunes and changes names/ searches album art. however, it doesnt rename the original files..

By: dantz_fanatic

dantz_fanatic — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:11:01 +0000

Interesting idea. When I started using TuneUp, I just did all my music. Now I can go in once a month and fix up anything since the last date. You idea is easier to keep track of though.

By: dantz_fanatic

dantz_fanatic — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:59:50 +0000

I use a mac and there are a few I’ve come up with:

TuneUp- This generally works really well. It syncs directly with iTunes. You put in your music 100 songs at a time and it will tell you who it is by, what its called, what album it is from, and the album artwork. It also tells you how confident it is about what it has just told you. Some of the “Likely Matches” are usually wrong, so you will want to read through what it tells you before you hit save. Generally speaking though I find it does a good job.

SongGenie- I tried this out and found it to be just terrible- maybe thats just me, but it couldn’t find most songs in my collection. I wouldn’t even consider my music collection to be rare or unique or anything.

FixTunes- I’ve never actually tried this one, but it might be worth looking into.

AutoRate- This one is pretty neat too- it analyses your iTunes library and automatically rates every song. Usually pretty acurate, and it does half stars which is neat.

iClip Lyrics- This is a great one, but needs a better solution for batch proccessing. If you keep it open in the background while you play songs in iTunes, it will add the lyrics to iTunes. You can’t drag and drop songs though so you basically have to play through every song. It also has trouble finding lyrics for less common songs. It still beats adding song lyrics manually though.

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By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:51:21 +0000

Thanks for your input Dave, To be frank – my program of choice would be: TuneUp. It’s paid software – but it does the job incredibly well.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:38:45 +0000

James Yeang: I’m going to have to disagree. iTunes can’t replace Picard but it does do everything else mentioned here.

1. Use Picard.
2. This is Picard.
3. Select multiple tracks, then right-click -> Info.
4. Right-click -> Get Album Artwork (if the ITMS doesn’t have that album, you can drag an image straight from your browser into iTunes)
5. iTunes does this automatically.

These programs might be handy if for some reason you detest or can’t use iTunes.

MediaMonkey is a limited version. There is a paid version with no limitations. All the extra “advanced” features are available in iTunes (and practically every other MP3 player) for free.

AllCDCovers is a good idea but their website sucks.

Lastly, and most importantly, only Picard works on anything other than Windows. (OK, fair cop. iTunes doesn’t work on Linux but Amarok does and I have iTunes everywhere else.)

It should also be mentioned that you CAN get iTunes for Windows without getting it bundled with Quicktime but it’s not obvious on the website. I wish Apple wouldn’t do that. It’s unseemly.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:05:51 +0000

Gimmesometune is a simple addin for iTunes on the Mac that does a lot automatically. Every time you play a song it fetches the album art and lyrics and inserts saves them in the mp3 or aac file.

By: drone

drone — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:26:17 +0000

Lol at the Freaky Friday and High School Musical OSTs in the top pic. Fail.

By: DaBrighterSide

DaBrighterSide — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:44:11 +0000

Thank you for these tips.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:10:25 +0000

@Charlie: iTunes only does a good job of sorting out your music collection if you start adding CDs directly to it. If you are talking about an existing Mp3 collection, or adding songs you have downloaded it cannot do all those things mentioned above.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:05:19 +0000

So instead of taking 30 seconds on itunes we should just download many clunky platforms that then have to have songs uploaded to them and then changed accordingly and then uploaded back to itunes. You can do pretty much everything there on itunes and it isnt difficult to bodge your way round these exceptions on itunes if there isnt a button specially designed. Just learn how to use that one awesome programme.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:31:14 +0000

@Francesco: iTunes doesn’t do a lot of these things with your existing music collection. These tools do a much better job :)

By: Françesco

Françesco — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:37:13 +0000

Or you could just use iTunes, which has all of the above mentioned functions.