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I’m the proud owner of a shiny new iPod Touch. It’s a considerable upgrade from my previous portable music player - a 6GB iPod mini with a broken headphone port. It served me well as a car iPod, though.
The iPod Touch is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a wonderful media player and an even better Internet and email device. But, when you’re looking at your iTunes library on its superb screen, you realize just how badly your ID3 tags and album art are.
I spent a large part of this holiday (happy President’s Day!) cleaning up the cruft from years of accumulating music. Luckily, there are some great pieces of software on the Mac and web services to do this.
- iEatBrainz (Freeware) - The Mac OS X client of MusicBrainz analyzes any tracks you feed it and compares its musical ‘fingerprint’ with a known database.
- Album Art Thingy (Shareware) - This inexpensive app looks up your currently playing track on Amazon.com and tries to find artwork. It does lyrics, too.
- Amazon.com (Service) - Whatever Album Art Thingy doesn’t get, you can get yourself by searching the MP3 store.
- Last.fm (Service) - This social network site helps see if you’ve done your ID3 tags right.
It’s really worth it to clean up the cruft from your iTunes library. You’ll not only delete music you don’t like anymore, but you’ll have a greater appreciation for the music you do like. The album art browsing in iTunes, Front Row, and an iPod is really great looking, too.
Good luck, and be sure to share your experience in the comments.
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