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TidySongs cleans up your messy music library
If you're at all like me, your iTunes library is a complete mess. I'm plagued by duplicate songs, missing artwork, and so many different genres that they're completely useless. It's an absolute pain to fix manually, so I assume it's never going to get done. Unless I get TidySongs, anyway. TidySongs is a typing-free way to clear up all the issues with your iTunes library, even if some of your songs and artists are woefully misspelled.TidySongs checks against a database to find duplicates and get the correct album artwork, whether you've got the names of your songs right or not. It handles genres by giving you a list of the ones you have, and allowing you to rename and consolidate them so that they might actually be useful. TidySongs also fills in details like album titles and years. It's not that blunt an instrument, though: you can choose to run it only on specific songs or song details.
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Subscribe to commentsDrewAug 5th 2009 7:45PM
How does this program compare to the godfather? Anyone?
snoopedgyedgeAug 5th 2009 11:25AM
Must have iTunes to use this. You're out of luck if you use Songbird, Zune, Winamp, etc.
KellyAug 5th 2009 11:40AM
Thank you for telling your users about us Jay! We want to help you add all the missing details to your songs. I created a discount code for your readers. The first 25 readers to purchase TidySongs will get 25% off.
Discount code: "downloadsquad"
Send me an email at kelly [at] tidysongs [dot] com if you have any questions or feedback for us!
Alex MAug 5th 2009 11:45AM
I use EasyTag (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/). It doesn't hold your hand if you're a complete newbie, but if you get the hang of its Scanner, it's pretty powerful.
If you have structured folders, "Fill Tag" scanner will populate the tags.
If you have tags but no structure, "Rename File and Folder" scanner will move the files around.
I found out about this program browsing the Ubuntu repos almost two years ago, and haven't looked back since.
anonymooseAug 5th 2009 11:49AM
And this differs to http://www.tuneupmedia.com/ how?
JonAug 5th 2009 11:58AM
I Use Media Monkey for Tag cleanup and Cover art
KellyAug 5th 2009 12:44PM
@anonymoose
In addition to the other fixing features, TidySongs has an automatic duplicate-finder and eliminator, and a tool for renaming genre tags to make them more consistent.
Paul Taylor from the Financial Times did a comparison of the two programs in his review called Tidy Your iTunes Library: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96f49fe6-77eb-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
sidewinder12sAug 5th 2009 2:32PM
I tired it and it works really well, I just think that $30 is a little much to be asking for this type of thing. Since there are so many other free ones out there. Maybe $10 at the most.
kemengAug 5th 2009 2:40PM
http://www.beatunes.com/
iGateAug 5th 2009 5:54PM
i have a problem with this.
there are songs which i know the track info to be correct, yet TidySongs suggests something else at 33% confidence. i then request it to relook, and it comes back with the same suggestion at 99% confidence. i find that pointless as the whole reason i told it to relook was because i knew it was wrong.
MikeAug 5th 2009 9:43PM
Just used meta-pod to fix my iTunes library after moving to a network drive didn't go perfectly.
Automatically detected and easily fixed the 900+ files that were in my library but not in the proper location.
Free and fixed things for me.
MikeAug 5th 2009 9:45PM
Sorry mispelled, it's meta-ipod I was referring to.
Brandon LAug 9th 2009 9:39PM
Is there any way to download this without using Adobe Air? It keeps crashing on me and won't allow me to complete the install.
KellyAug 10th 2009 3:13PM
@Brandon L Right now Adobe Air is required.