Organising Your iTunes

Marky

Marky

Marky

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Hey all,

If you buy songs from various places and put them into your itunes, it can be a bit muddled if you get different tags etc.

I've been looking into programs to organise all songs with all the correct tags and cover art etc.

At the moment, I have just TuneUp, which seems quite nice and at 19.99$/Year may be worth it. However, do any of you use any other ones/recommend others?


Thanks,
Marky
 
bimmerboii said:
Never thought an app like this exists! Will be useful for me as my itunes library is a mess!
Also interested in other alternatives to this
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Hehe yeah :) I think there are a few more out there just don't know if there are any better ones out there worth checking out before making the jump.
 
Hey, found a couple more music organisers.. fixtunes and musicbrainz. I think fixtunes work the same as TuneUp, and musicbrainz is freeware! Ill give musicbrainz a go
 
I sort all my MP3's using MP3tag before adding them to iTunes. Does everything and it's free :)
 
bimmerboii said:
Looks good but seems to be for Windows only :(
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Just found this on another forum, Credit to doh123

"MP3Tag for mac

It is much larger than just the Windows program because it has to have Wine and support files and X11 built in.

you can download it here
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zf5dzy...SX (intel).zip

to install, just unzip the file, and drag and drop the mp3tag.app into your applications folder and double click it to run. It will do a short initialization on first run.

this is totally unsupported and the port was made by me in about 30 minutes... so i have no idea if it fully works, but it seemed to work what little testing I did... download and try it out if you want. Using Wine it will only run on Intel Macs, no PowerPCs.

Main things to know
It installs a directory structure in your home folders library under Application Support/mp3tag/
and a plist file in your home library preferences folder called mp3tag.plist

if you ever have problems with it where you need to start over like the first time you ran it, you can delete this folder and plist, if they don't exist it makes it when you run the program the first time. If you save anything inside the program to its C drive structure, that is inside the mp3tag bottle thats in Application Support, you might want to go into the fake drive C inside there and copy stuff out before you remove the folder. Do not remove anything else inside Application Support or Preferences, it can really mess up your computer!

let me know if certain things aren't working, and I can check to see if i can fix it or make a work around... didn't spend much time on it."

Or you could just bootcamp.
 
Bootcamp won't really work unless you can access your Mac drive from within Windows.

I use a mixture of TuneUp and Cover Scout 3, they complement each other nicely and I'm very happy with the way I've got my library organised within iTunes now.
 
You could pretty them up in MP3tag under bootcamp, save them to a USB stick and transfer them to your OSX/iTunes.
 
Spent a few hours last night with MP3Tag cleaning up my songs :) Easy to use after a bit and you can fully tag the songs and then even rename multiple songs using the tag information recieved :) All for free :) Very nice! :p
 
Marky said:
Spent a few hours last night with MP3Tag cleaning up my songs :) Easy to use after a bit and you can fully tag the songs and then even rename multiple songs using the tag information recieved :) All for free :) Very nice! :p
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How did you get it running in the end?
 
pumaz said:
How did you get it running in the end?
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Bimmerboi is the one that couldn't run it as he doesn't have Windows. However, I'm on Vista therefore was able to run it perfectly fine :)
Went through the songs, selected the album and track and it done the rest :)
 
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