iTunes and illegal downloads love Artie

One of the best things about iTunes is that, for your 99 cents a song, you also get album art, and properly (if not always completely) attributed songs. When I first started using the service, I'd already, uh, seen people using Napster. All those songs were great off p2p, but the ID3 info was often wrong, missing, or janked up. Worse, no pretty pictures of the album. Now Artie - The Strongest App... In the World! comes to the rescue. How? Artie finds the appropriate album covers in your iTunes library, fetches them, and neatly associates them with your songs. Other apps do this, but Artie automatically resizes them to the proper dimensions, saving you drive space... Artie doesn't stop there though (why just look at the full title, it wouldn't just pull pictures would it?). It'll also remove the lame track numbers that often prefix music from those alternative sources. There are other features, but my favorite is the "Make album art playlists." Artie analyzes the cover art, and groups songs based on similarity of their covers, thus forming a playlist. Odd, isn't it? But strangely fun and interesting.

Tags: album art, AlbumArt, artie, freeware, itunes, music, p2p