Comments on: How to Fix Your iTunes Library

By: cuttymufc

cuttymufc — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:24:00 +0000

I always make sure my library is neat and tidy. I have near on 900 song in my itunes and every single one is done to my liking. I would say to any new comer to itunes to sort them out as you download and put CD’s in there, that way it seems like a lot less work.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:12:28 +0000

I have 11000+ songs. You’d think it’d be awesome right? no not at all. I can NEVER find the music I want, my itunes library is a disaster (I have 25+ different Track 01′s). TV Shows – it’s possibly worse. All of the programs I’ve found you have to pay for – any ideas out there?

By: vedanta

vedanta — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:38:40 +0000

i used both TuneUp and CoverScout for artwork and SongGenie for cleaning up tags, they are okay for collections under 10G – I have had mixed results with over 50G collections. The best option in my opinion is to do it manually, there are scripts that can help you search the artwork – http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php – its time consuming though

By: Jobot

Jobot — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:06:15 +0000

I had higher hopes from Pirillo to offer a viable solution to solving my iTunes library woes. I’m not even about to try to organize a library of 10,000 songs manually, when most of it is right anyway. iTunes is far too bulky to deal with that, and I have other things to do with my time, like post comments on blogs that offer advice on stuff I already knew. I can manually manage my ID3-tags? Oh please, can I please?

Screensavers was your finest hour, old friend.

btw, jennyjenny was far more helpful, seems musicbrainz is just what the doctor ordered.

By: polgin

polgin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:16:10 +0000

I haven’t tried midomi yet. I’ve used fixtunes and tidysongs. Try it. Thanks for all the info. Padayon!!

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:49:23 +0000

Great, except it never actually works. I imported a CD with iTunes – it correctly identified the album and artist, and found the artwork, yet it insists the CD is six separate albums and nothing I do will fix this. I’ve tried group editing the tags, I’ve tried changing the album and artist names – I’ve tried everything.

iTunes is the worst piece of shit software ever written. Made of fail.

By: brandi

brandi — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:11:24 +0000

my computer is saying that i have to reinstall my quick time or repair my itunes but its already installed and it wont open my i tune because of it. how will i be able to open my itunes again ?

By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:17:16 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tips. I use itunes all the time and i like what apple has done to it.
I really like the itunes store, i use it all the time for music and apps and i think it works great.
Itunes has some really good features and it is easily managable. The only thing that bugs me is the filetype support, i would really like to have all my flacs in otunes but i guess every program has its flaws. Thanks for the link and good luck!

By: Cam Jensen

Cam Jensen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:21:21 +0000

heh, nice how to but I don’t think I’m gonna be abe to fix my whole library, I have almost 150 gigabytes of music and organizing that is gonna take wuite some time. I’m just gonna fix the most important CDs I have like the ones I have on my iPod and others that I listen to often. I think it’s quite fun to clean up your music collection but that may just be because I have no life and that I’m a total audiofile.
I just love music and this how to really helped me straighten out my collection to some extent!

By: Langston

Langston — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:13:30 +0000

Hey, I tried doing this same thing in winamp and it actually works! Its not as complete as itunes’s altering compabilities but it works for me. I use itunes and I think I’m gonna stick with it (even more now that Ive cleared up all my missing info) because I think its stable and looks good.
Winamp is nice to but it feels kind of unstable, one time when I tried to start it, my computer freezed and I had to restart it (wtf?). That’s not a sign of a good program to me. Still, winamp has some feature that itunes still lacks but overall I like itunes quite a bit over winamp.
C ya!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:06:18 +0000

iTunes is indeed very time consuming, but it’s definitely worth it with though of that it is free. It works really easy and smooth. People should definitely start using this method of organizing.
Glad that you posted this I hope more people will start using this method, also thanks for midomi.
Cheers, bro! (y)

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:52:50 +0000

@Truong: Yes, he explains it in the article, you just highlight all the songs you want to change art on and do as you normally do with one song. If you already do that and just think the whole process is too slow, I saw some tool somewhere that took albumart from amazon and copied it to your library.
Nice post btw, didn’t help me that much but good for the newbs ;P

By: Gilbert Kaufman

Gilbert Kaufman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:46:55 +0000

Sorry, this didn’t help me since I don’t download music illegally, I just import my CDs and get the albumart alternatively scan the cover and just paste it in. By doing that I ensure myself of a perfectly looking library.
Nice article though, would have helped me two years ago.

By: Christina Ballard

Christina Ballard — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:41:43 +0000

Hey I got this link through a page who told me to go check it out, so I did and I can just say THANK YOU.
My music has always been a mess but I didn’t think I could do anything about it so I just kept it as it was. Now Im going to follow your instructions and get a nice music library!

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:58:55 +0000

I’m currently using Google Chrome, does anybody know how I can drag the album art into iTunes directly without saving the image? It works fine on Firefox. Anywho, I really liked this article and enjoyed reading it. Very thankful for midomi, I’ve been looking for something like that. iTunes is a efficient way of organizing music, I recommend more people should use it.