![]() For example, to find all the tracks with no Genre tag, make a smart playlist where Genre is :ĭo the same for other tags: use Artist, Album, or any other tags you want to fill in. It’s a good idea to scan your library from time to time and find tracks that are missing some of the essential tags, such as Genre, Artist or Album. In order to find music in your iTunes library, sort it, and funnel it into smart playlists, you need to have good tags. Find Tracks with Missing Genre, Artist, Album Tags It’s best to check Dry Run at first this creates a text file with a list of dead tracks, and you can scan this to see which ones you want to keep, then look for their missing files. TrackSift, which I mentioned above, can find and delete dead tracks. ![]() You may have deleted them, and there may still be entries in your iTunes library or you may have lost the original files. “Dead” tracks are those tracks that iTunes has lost track of. This app examines you files, finds the ones that are missing artwork, and then searches for the missing graphics and adds them to the files. You can use Google, but if you have a lot of files, you might want to get a dedicated app, such as Equinox’s $30 CoverScout. The Find Tracks Without Artwork module creates a playlist of all tracks that have no artwork at all.Īs for the rest, you’ll want something that can help you find missing artwork. To find tracks without any artwork, you can use Doug Adams’ $4 TrackSift, an app which contains nine useful tools for working with your iTunes library, its files, and its playlists. This exports the artwork, then adds it to the files. There’s a script for this: Re-Embed Artwork. This may find some tracks that do have artwork when you purchase music from the iTunes Store, the artwork is not embedded in the files, so if you copy it to another computer, the artwork won’t be there.Īfter you run this script, you’ll want to embed the artwork in the tracks that have artwork that’s not embedded, before you start looking for artwork that’s missing altogether. In some cases, you may have an album where not all tracks have artwork in others, full albums may be missing artwork.ĭoug Adams’ Tracks Without Embedded Artwork will find all tracks that don’t have artwork embedded in their files. If you have lots of tracks without album artwork, it might be a good idea to sort them in your iTunes library so you can add artwork to them. If you don’t need all of Dupin’s powerful features, you can try the $6 Dupin Lite 2, which offers many of Dupin’s features, but has fewer power-user features. It can find exact duplicates, as well as songs that appear on, say, a regular album and a best of collection. You can choose which ones to keep, according to their date, play counts, bit rates and more. A much better tool to find dupes is Doug Adams’ $15 Dupin, a simple app that lets you find and sort duplicates according to a number of criteria. If you want to find exact duplicates – those that might be on two different albums – press the Option key (or the Shift key if you’re on Windows), then choose View > Show Exact Duplicate Items.īut iTunes’ duplicate finding is limited. ![]() You can then manually delete any dupes you don’t want to keep. ITunes lets you find duplicates in your library. It serves little purpose to have these duplicates in your iTunes library, so it’s a good idea to weed them out from time to time. Get Rid of DuplicatesĪs your iTunes library grows, you may end up with a bunch of duplicates some tracks that you bought, others that you “downloaded,” and even some that you ripped, either recently or way back when. In this article, I’ll discuss how you can do these tasks, quickly and easily. You could weed out duplicates, find missing album art, and check up on your tags. As the new year approaches, it’s time to make some resolutions you know, those things you say you’re going to do but forget after a few weeks… Well, I have a suggestion for a useful resolution that won’t take long: you could clean up your iTunes library.
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