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Break Free From iTunes With Amazon Music Downloads | DodaPedia — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:35:08 +0000

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Control iTunes With Your Hands & Feet [Mac Only] | MakeUseOf.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:01:40 +0000

[...] while the developers and researchers fine-tune the whole operation, FluidTunes allows us to control iTunes “Minority Report” style. Using the built-in iSight, this application recognizes [...]

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:56:59 +0000

Hmmm nope I have around 800 albums and getting them sorted the first time is the most challenging part. Now, as I add new albums, I make sure that I get it right.

By: dfh

dfh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:39:00 +0000

Do you have like 100 albums or so? Or have you been organised since day one with song tags. Ive just switched to itunes and out of the 2100 albums or so id say 500 have artwork and are organised, its gonna take me a long time to get ontop of it all.

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[...] How to Improve Your iTunes Experience (Part 1) [Mac Only] makeuseof.com — I love my music and everything else that goes along with it. I love the fact that in my iTunes, every song is properly labelled, is nicely arranged alphabetically by artist and have their particular album artwork attached in high resolution. (tags: 11 2008 itunes tips) [...]

By: Tsuragi Kim

Tsuragi Kim — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:05:30 +0000

sounds like a kick ass site. when does it lunch? i mean..launch hehe >.<

By: How to Improve Your iTunes Experience (Part 2) [Mac Only] | MakeUseOf.com

How to Improve Your iTunes Experience (Part 2) [Mac Only] | MakeUseOf.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:01:46 +0000

[...] the first part of How to Improve Your iTunes Experience, I listed a few tips to improve your music experience using only your existing music library. [...]

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:32:00 +0000

Sounds interesting. I’ll pop on over. Thanks!

By: Jonathan Koontz

Jonathan Koontz — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:51:07 +0000

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Byte Into It - 22 Oct 08 « Byte Into It - Computing and new technology — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:55:19 +0000

[...] How to Improve Your iTunes Experience (Part 1) [Mac Only] | MakeUseOf.com I love my music and everything else that goes along with it. I love the fact that in my iTunes, every song is properly labelled, is nicely arranged alphabetically by artist and have their particular album artwork attached in high resolution. It is so much easier to search for the songs you want when almost all the fields (i.e. genre, artist, album, year) are completed. Every little bit of information helps Genius to find the songs which match the ones you are listening to, creating a playlist which suits your current musical mood. [...]

By: obley

obley — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:41:01 +0000

http://www.yousoftware.com/tunes/

This is a great little addition for your iTunes.

can’t wait for part 2

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:10:31 +0000

Coversutra is only a one time payment, and I can really recommend this software! I bought it in a bundle for about half a year ago and have been really happy with it, and it looks great too!

By: fillupeye

fillupeye — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:02:57 +0000

Is the fee for Coversutra a one-time fee, or is it monthly/yearly?

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:52:00 +0000

Depending on the popularity of your songs. Asian songs take a little longer to find because of translation and transcription into the latin alphabet. AFAIK, TunesTEXT works for Japanese songs because one of its databases is Utamap. Not entirely sure about Chinese songs and I can’t test it because I haven’t any!

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:48:10 +0000

Hi Adam,

Nice of you to drop by. Just a quick note to Mac users: Media Monkey is Windows only.

By: dudude

dudude — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:36:51 +0000

My unique itunes experience would be spending nearly two hours creating ringtones for my iPhone 3G using the music from iTunes library(unprotected music only). i followed the step by step guide and finally got it. Very rewarding!

By: Particle Man

Particle Man — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:23:55 +0000

As this is Part 1, perhaps I’m jumping the gun here, but for a further improved iTunes experience, I set the playback sound enhancer to High, manually configure the EQ, and (on Mac) use You Control: Tunes to control iTunes with global keyboard shortcuts.

By: Timothy Andrew

Timothy Andrew — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:36:37 +0000

Musicbrainz?

By: Chi

Chi — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:13:34 +0000

I’ve recently started to organize my iTunes library, and I have to say, looking for the lyrics takes so long! Does TunesTEXT work for music in other languages, mainly Chinese?

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:09:18 +0000

Yea well not a script, iEatBrainz. Great for all those track 1, 2s and misnamed tracks as well.

By: David

David — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:17:30 +0000

An other good little application is Tune•Instructor that will help you automate some of the stuff in iTunes.
It can be downloaded from apple here:

By: Alan Sundry

Alan Sundry — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:18:21 +0000

Media monkey on the PC, will organise and rename your files and folders based on Tags, it will also retrieve tags and album art from amazon etc

Blows itunes away for organizing

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:48:11 +0000

There are plenty of programs out there that can “magically obtain the artist and song title” even without playing the song. Check out lifehacker.com which has reviewed several for PC and for MAC.

I’m currently using Media Monkey. I right click on the artist’s folder and then choose “tag from web” and Media Monkey pulls everything from multiple sources (including amazon) and automatically fills in or corrects my existing tags. You can even review the changes before they’re made to quickly check for errors.

Now….you’re welcome!

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:47:28 +0000

Yeah, I know about DougScripts. But no script can help you change the titles of songs from “Track 1, Track 2…” to their corresponding titles. That’s manual labour your can’t avoid.

Unless you know a script which can magically obtain the artist and song title just by playing the song

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:45:44 +0000

That's CoverSutra which is a commercial application. You can try using Artwork. It's free and should be just as good.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:38:54 +0000

Sorry, that’s one of a kind – I made it myself!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:21:07 +0000

I think the cover app shown in the screenshot is CoverSutra.